Sentence examples for permanent defeat from inspiring English sources

The episode resolves the main Asuran storyline with their permanent defeat at the hands of the Atlantis Expedition.

But it pleases me even more to think that the conservatives' nightmare of permanent defeat might come true simply if Democrats do the right thing.

Drawing on his military experience in Afghanistan, he argued just two days after the Obama address that, "the lessons of the past decade suggest that a clearly bounded extension of US military action means taking responsibility at most for the initial phase, not the permanent defeat of ISIS in which the west should play only a supporting role".

Mr. Wei, 50 years old, said he moved temporarily to Washington from New York so that he could lobby full-time to defeat permanent trade ties, one of the Clinton administration's top foreign policy priorities.

Despite the 1894 defeat, permanent movements were set up in some areas of Sicily using modern socialist models of organisation.

It was this weakness that the Germans subsequently exploited in executing a modified version of the Schlieffen plan, cutting in behind the permanent defenses and defeating France without having to come to grips with the Maginot Line.

The United States preferred to let the measure be defeated by failing to get the needed number of votes rather than to use the veto that the five permanent members can use to defeat a measure.

His first appearance following his permanent transfer was a 2 0 defeat to Chester on 9 January 2007.

During Dissidia 012, Lightning's group is confronted by beings called Manikins, which inflict permanent death on those they defeat, thereby threatening the world's cycle of rebirth.

The series is also renowned for having deeply developed characters, as well as the fact that most units' death or defeat in battle is permanent in the game until the end of the playthrough.

Even at the height of its relative power following World War II, Smil notes, "the U.S. did not behave like an imperial power: It did not annex any foreign territories or impose any direct permanent military rule in the defeated countries".