Sentence examples for risk defeat from inspiring English sources

Powell dares you to risk defeat with him.

That is how to risk defeat in the pursuit of victory – well done Colly!

Some aides have advised him to wait until 2008 rather than risk defeat to a strong incumbent.

A perennial gripe of mine is the failure of captains to risk defeat in pursuit of victory.

While the rules encourage spending, and her opponents take advantage of them, it would be irrational for her to risk defeat by failing to meet the challenge.

On Twitter, Douthat wrote, "I'd rather risk defeat at my enemies' hands than turn my own cause over to a incompetent tyrant".

Its belief was that none of the smaller parties would risk defeating the government and trigger an early election with potentially inconclusive results.

Although three weeks later he won the Likud leadership election, it seemed he risked defeat at the polls.

But this time it is Rubio – having now spent six years in Washington – who risks defeat at the hands of a political outsider: Donald Trump.

"When their initial judgments about Vietnam were found to be in error, there was no way to confess their error, without risking defeat at the polls".

And a narrow majority would be unstable — risking defeat in crucial parliamentary votes needed to pass more aid or credits for troubled economies.