Sentence examples for recognized defeat from inspiring English sources

As Macri's supporters celebrated around Buenos Aires on Sunday night the mood was desolate outside Scioli's headquarters in a Buenos Aires hotel as the losing candidate recognized defeat.

The big miscalculation underlying the American-led intervention in Iraq was that the enemy would recognize defeat, and submit.

Perhaps they have established a new tradition in Mexico, where candidates have often failed to recognize defeat.

In an open letter to Mr. Milosevic earlier today, Mr. Kostunica said "it will be better for you to recognize" defeat or risk "the danger of open clashes" throughout Serbia.

It was interesting learning to recognize defeat, and not even think of it as defeat, but think of it as, "I tried this.

We recognize defeated landscapes by the absence of pleasure from them.

The R genes, which encode disease resistance proteins especially containing the LRR/NBS-LRR domains, are widely recognized to defeat pathogens in many plants35.

Although the official quoted contended that "the Chinese government has won a decisive victory in its ongoing battle against Falun Gong," he added that "the cult group led by Li Hongzhi has not recognized their defeat and continues to cause trouble".

In a brief nationally televised address, President Juan Manuel Santos recognized his defeat at the polls "by the tightest of margins" — it was decided by less than half a percentage point — but said he was not ready to give up his quest for a peace agreement.

If the Baker-Hamilton commission cannot bring itself to recognize a defeat as a defeat, then it cannot recommend the scale of change needed to develop a potentially successful third campaign.I am not sure that I fully follow the logic in this last paragraph.

Axelrod recognized that defeating Hillary Clinton would require not just enormous sums of money, but the ability to sustain a fundraising operation well into the spring of 2008.