Sentence examples for not a decisive defeat from inspiring English sources

The appeals panel ruling was not a decisive defeat for the government, as the judges said they would probably agree to rule on the issue later in the trial.

Although this push resulted in many arrests of militants and the destruction of their bases, it did not achieve a decisive defeat.

Pellegrini feels the keys to their title triumph were his players' trust in his attacking approach that helped them score 102 league goals, and also the fact they did not give up after what looked a decisive defeat against Liverpool last month.

However, Napoleon did not rule France again for very long, suffering a decisive defeat at the hands of the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June.

Divorce was approved by referendum in 1995, by a razor-thin margin (50.28% to 49.72%), reversing a decisive defeat a decade earlier.

In the Kishkindha Kanda of the Ramayana, when Sugriva re-challenges Vali for combat, Tara suggests that "appearances are deceptive" and normally, a combatant would not return so soon to a fight again after a decisive defeat.

But although the election appears to have dealt a decisive defeat to the USDP, the military still dominates many aspects of the government and it is not clear how easily it will share power with Suu Kyi.

His effort was handed a decisive defeat by voters.

West Virginia voters dealt the other candidate a decisive defeat.

It was a decisive defeat for the administration.

In Iraq, the United States faced down al-Qaeda and eventually dealt it a decisive defeat.