Sentence examples for risks defeats from inspiring English sources

Merely identifying their risks defeats many.

Unionism risks defeating itself if it becomes too closely identified with Brexit.

"It's complicated" may be a scoundrel's defense, but art without complexity risks defeating its own purpose.

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.

Brazilian greens want to limit the measure to smaller plots, and to ban their resale for ten years.Yet that risks defeating the object.

He must get the economy moving again, or the Concertacion risks defeat both in a congressional election next year, and in the next presidential vote.

Therefore the task of leaders -- whether in the presidency or anywhere else -- is to reconcile that contradiction: to deploy means in such a way as to avoid doing too little, which risks defeat, but also too much, which risks exhaustion.

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.