Sentence examples for minor defeat from inspiring English sources

"Let us show our dignity by being gracious in this minor defeat".

I had had an abortion the previous year, with some reluctance, and everything — every minor defeat, every sign of unfriendliness — still hurt a little extra.

I had had an abortion the previous year, with some reluctance, and everything every minor defeat, every sign of unfriendliness still hurt a little extra.

In response, an Achaean army arrived, relieved the city and inflicted a minor defeat on the Spartan army based nearest the city walls.

Nonetheless, since Mir, no decisive engagements occurred in the northern theater, as Polish army withdrew in relative order towards Warsaw, after minor defeat at Zelwa, eventually taking defensive positions along the Bug river near Brest.

He behaved differently around Chitra, was more accepting of the minor defeats in life.

Our lives are a series of relative victories and minor defeats, with occasional eruptions of love, life, and loss.

One has known only triumph and relatively minor defeats, the other has been devastated over and over by its own actions.

One minor government defeat in the Lords has Mr Blair rushing to create more Labour peers.

In a typically bold gesture he led the procession to the Eleusinian festival by road in spite of the danger from the Spartan force at Decelea; but, in the same year, after a minor naval defeat in his absence, his political enemies persuaded the people to reject him, and he retired to a castle in Thrace.

Although the Japanese had previously suffered minor local defeats, such as the first landing at Wake Island and the Battle of the Tenaru on Guadalcanal, these actions, unlike Milne Bay, had not resulted in complete Japanese withdrawal and the abandonment of the military campaign.