Gah! But, refusing to be defeated, we ploughed on.
Life had always bashed her about and she had always refused to be defeated by it.
They insist on honouring its place in history and generally show it by refusing to be defeated there.
Hollywood remains a challenging environment for women over 50 whose names don't begin with Meryl, but Clarkson refuses to be defeated, or even to look back in anger.
This is with Ezekiel, a fuel delivery man, "a strapping, smiling, shaved-head, spiritual dynamo" who greets Frank cheerfully and, against all the odds, manages to cheer him up just by being what he is, a man, like Frank himself, making his hard way in a tough world and refusing to be defeated.
Yet the commissioners refused to be defeated.
Refusing to be defeated, she proves herself rousingly adept at conning, stealing and threatening her way around a remote town, equipped with nothing but her wits and a plastic water bottle.
'You've always been envious of your brother,' I said, refusing to be defeated.
They were warned and told to return to their homes and churches, but refused to be defeated.
Agnew and Pat Murphy refused to be defeated and "decamped to the fort ramparts overlooking the ground and broadcast their programme from there.
Bullying needs to be defeated!!
