Sentence examples for past defeats from inspiring English sources

Admitting to past defeats is easy if ultimately you have emerged the victor.

On the Republican side, too, there has been the emergence of a new pragmatism born of past defeats.

Matuidi laughed off suggestions that past defeats by Germany at World Cups had given the French players an inferiority complex.

Andy Murray insists past defeats will mean nothing when he takes on Novak Djokovic for the fourth time in the Australian Open final on Sunday.

Fringe candidates like Gingrich and Santorum were generally eliminated from the start by their past defeats or by their extremist views — college is evil — but if they weren't, our political system gave them the chance to take their arguments to the people in relatively small, manageable states and see if they caught on.

It is hard to overstate the gravitational pull of his country, as Greg Couch writes on Foxsports.com, but it makes Murray's story all that much more appealing because he wears his scars of past defeats so plainly, Howard Bryant writes on ESPN.com.

The end came in the second round of the U.S. Open, when Laura Robson, as much a player of the future as Clijsters was a player of the past, defeated her in straight sets.

If a sense of triumph was particularly strong for veterans of past defeat like Rougerie, playing his fifth final, much was owed to a man unmarked by those losses.

It will allow us to see what the world thinks of anything, but could also dredge up the past, defeating 'privacy by obscurity'.

Every time the ball enters the box, your head puts on a horror show as your mind flashes back through every past defeat and forward into a slideshow of the smug faces you'll have to endure if this goes sideways, the headlines, the tweets, the immediate and complete erasure of any and all previous results as this match, this defeat, becomes all that matters.

But the election did not spur the kind of soul-searching and agonizing over identity that past Democratic defeats did.