Sentence examples for outright defeated from inspiring English sources

I've been stymied again and again by writing fiction — at various times stymied, frustrated, mystified, thwarted, staggered, even outright defeated — but I haven't been grotesquely shattered as yet.

The flight school just outright defeated people.

The US will be maintaining the status quo without being able to outright defeat the Taliban.

Three outright defeats and four concessions so far.

But such difficulties and divisions might be less grave than an outright defeat.

No one is talking of an outright defeat of the Taliban across southern Afghanistan.

Yet the West has never sought the outright defeat of Mr Milosevic, still less the outright victory of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

For some nothing short of the outright defeat of Hussein and the dismemberment of his dangerous military arsenal will do.

Each is quietly planning for violently different outcomes: outright defeat, coalition talks or (in the case of Labour and the Conservatives) majority government.

A hearing before the appellate court is not even scheduled until April 17th, and more delays, if not the outright defeat of Obama's initiative, are likely to follow.

But voters resoundingly endorsed Mr. Brown's ballot initiative by 54 percent to 46 percent on Tuesday, confounding most pollsters who had been predicting a closer outcome, if not outright defeat.