Despite Hemingway's preoccupation with physical contests, his heroes are almost always defeated physically, nervously, practically: their stories are moral ones.
The Chiefs have a.500 record, but they have been competitive in practically every defeat.
Conservatives and libertarians defeated socialism, intellectually and then practically.
Hastening to relieve the city, al-Djarrah was defeated and killed, and his army practically annihilated in a battle outside the city on 9 December 730.
The GOP rank and file -- and the leftover leaders of a defeated Republican Party -- jumped the shark, practically speaking leaping off the Cliffs of Reason falling helplessly into the Fun House of Hell.
It's been said so many times by now that it's practically worn out, but if this is what the defeated side looks like, well..
Rwanda will not leave until it feels secure -- that is, until it can achieve the practically impossible task of defeating or disarming the ethnic Hutu extremists who carried out the genocide against at least half a million Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and who have sought refuge in Congo.
In Virginia, the exit poll showed Ed Gillespie, the defeated G.O.P. candidate, getting seventy-two per cent support in this group practically the same as what Trump got last year.
