With pragmatism born of repeated defeat, they have sought to elevate the sorts of presidential candidates who can win, notably white Southern moderates like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Repeated defeat at the polls throughout the 1950s reflected Labour's failure to apply its values in a way consistent with social change.
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In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama recalls that he once wrote an article for Time Magazine in which he said: "In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat – in all this, he reminded me just... of my own struggles".
In the present study, we also report an effect of social status on acute pain, so that the repeated defeat experience reduced pain sensitivity (hypoalgesia) in the subordinate subjects.
Still, there is a moment when candidates must ask themselves whether dwindling resources and repeated defeats leave any hope alive.
Neither idea went anywhere, mainly because the networks decided that spending extra money on repeats defeated the point of using them to amortize costs.
After repeated defeats at the ballot box in recent years, same-sex marriage went four for four in statewide votes in November, with victories in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.
His closest relationship at the time seemed to be with Jürgen Hingsen, the German who remained pale and stoical and unremitting in the face of repeated defeats by Thompson, who retained his Olympic title in 1984.
Tabloid-driven and often quite funny (remember John Cleese goose-stepping in "Fawlty Towers"?), this fixation with 1945 has long been easy to dismiss as island mentality, empire nostalgia or perhaps compensation for repeated defeats by Germany on the soccer field.
