Sentence examples for much defeat from inspiring English sources

There were echoes of his 2004 Senate race, when he did not so much defeat his hapless opponents as benefit from their self-immolation.

There is much defeat here; the heroism at the Toktong battle, for example, is the valor that leads to survival in the midst of retreat.

It was not so much defeat by a fine Leinster team that stung as the "rock bottom" home defeat to Newcastle a fortnight previously.

I gave up on the team years ago, because one can endure only so much defeat before it begins to feel like a manifestation of one's own character.

For African-American women and men, the play tells us, style has traditionally been a way to take up space in a world that refuses to acknowledge them, a stage-managed victory in a life of too much defeat.

But it's the musical score that really does for the film: pounding Bryan Adams-eque guitars and near-unsingable lines (sample: "My investors would rather I handle it quietly") pretty much defeat a game and energetic cast.

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do.

The country has pretty much defeated the boll weevil, and the Department of Agriculture individually tests every bale on obscure measures such as the tensile strength of the fibres.

The next item was "Hazing Goes Loony Tunes," and here it is in its entirety: Word on the sidewalk is that Glen Ridge officialdom pretty much defeated the class of 2007 in the annual senior-on-freshman hazing ritual yesterday by making the rising seniors stay after school for several minutes in order to give freshmen a head start to run home.

Speaking outside the court on Friday night, he said: "This is not so much a defeat for the prosecution as a defeat for Italy's justice system.

I'd come so far already, it seemed too much like defeat to turn back.