Sentence examples for rapid defeat from inspiring English sources
America's generals, happy to boast about the rapid defeat of Saddam's regime, now admit the war is far from over.
But the vacuum left by the rapid defeat of that regime is being filled by new Iraqis and new Iraqi institutions.
A rapid defeat of the Red Army, he argued, would force Britain to capitulate before Roosevelt could coax a reluctant Congress into all-out support.
"Crossroads" is a critical film, thrusting into view a bilious undercurrent in French life — a current that would break out into action in the political crises of the late thirties and find its fulfillment in the humiliatingly rapid defeat by Germany and the wartime acts of collaboration.
Whether it is Napoleon's victory at Wagram (pictured above), the early success of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914, Hitler's blitzkrieg in 1940 or the rapid defeat of Iraqi forces in 2003, all turned into long wars of attrition because the other side refused to realise it had been beaten.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., May 13 (AP) — Nicolas Hernández scored early in the first half Sunday and the Colorado Rapids defeated the short-handed Red Bulls, 1-0, at Giants Stadium.
The rapid Allied defeat in the Pacific caused many Australians to fear that the Japanese would invade the Australian mainland.
Instead, here we get a campaign of rapid marches, defeating an enemy in detail, and achieving an utterly decisive victory at the end; it looks like Bonaparte in Italy, 1796, not the 1863 universe of battle.
"Maybe I was a little flat," admitted Bob after his and Venus' surprisingly rapid 6-3, 6-2 defeat in the mixed doubles final to Andy Ram and Vera Zvonareva.
The 18-year-old Sharapova completed her fourth-round match, held over from Sunday because of rain, with three rapid games to defeat Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives 6-2, 6-3.
Sheriff, on the other hand, needed an 84th-minute winner last week from Ismail Isa to defeat Rapid Ghidighici and preserve their seven-point lead at the top of the Moldovan National Division.
