It is a moral and psychological defeat.
They may have been driven from the airwaves, but they turned out to have inflicted on their tormentors a crushing psychological defeat.
The Tet Offensive was carried out at a terrible cost to Communist strength, but American press reports turned the offensive into a psychological defeat for the United States.
Though as the director of South Asia programs for Operation USA she could never support the tactics of the Tamil Tigers, which have included hundreds of suicide bombings and assassinations, she said: "The feeling people have is a psychological defeat.
Rats were kept on this diet for at least 2 months before they were exposed to either psychological (social defeat) or physiological (lipopolysaccharide, LPS, administration) stress.
We do not seem to have grasped that relations between France and Germany, the central equation of Europe, were now on a new footing: if not united they were not brought together by the psychological bond of defeat in war for the first time for nearly a century and a half; the two countries were quits at last and both had a similar purpose in extricating themselves from national humiliation.
European-introduced diseases devastated the native population of Petén, with the effects of disease compounded by the psychological impact of defeat.
It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat.
He departed after 18 months in charge and with the team only five points adrift of fourth place but the psychological effects of heavy defeats by West Ham, Manchester City and then Liverpool had eroded the board's faith in his ability.
Essentially, Germany's defeat was psychological: by the end of the war, even Ludendorff, the great fire-eater, was relying on a shrink to keep him going.
