Sentence examples for momentary defeats from inspiring English sources
Like many heroic quests, hers was marked by high ideals, momentary defeats and, in the end, redemption.
The go-to meals that are at the center of our victories and provide comfort in our momentary defeats also anchor the same moments in the lives of those who provide us with inspiring performances and edge-of-your-seat moments.
Although he took momentary pleasure from the defeat of Churchill and the Conservatives in the July 1945 Election, he saw the accession to power of the Labour Party as a triumph of barbarism and the onset of a "Dark Age".
The results on Tuesday were a surprise, but it was an open question whether the defeats were a momentary embarrassment or a prolonged setback for Mr. Romney.
"This is the best 15 [players] you can get in India when it comes to T20," said Dhoni after India's exit, the pain of defeat perhaps inducing momentary amnesia.
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary".
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.... Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary".
Neubauer analyzes two poems in Diiie, "Times-Squares" and "Harlem Hopscotch", that support her assertion that for Angelou, "conditions must improve for the black race" She states, "Both [poems] ring with a lively, invincible beat that carries defeated figures into at least momentary triumph".
None was large enough to defeat McClellan alone, but Lee calculated that the momentary vulnerability would be brief.
— To Amar'e Stoudemire it was all an accident, a momentary swipe of his left hand in the frustrating wake of a dispiriting defeat.
The annotations are generally reliable, though the editors will find some help in explicating Beckett's momentary enthusiasm for Leibowitz's postwar performances of Schoenberg's wind quintet, a subject which rather defeats them, in the biographies and writings of Pierre Boulez.
