Sentence examples for serious reverses from inspiring English sources

His grandnephew, Daulat Rao, however, suffered serious reverses.

His relations with the Avars and Persians were marked by similar, though less serious, reverses.

The only serious reverses suffered by Isis since its successful campaigns in the summer of 2014 have been at the hands of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria.

Nicholas gained control of much of eastern Norway, won the support of the labouring classes, and threatened to advance on the inland territory held by Sverrir before suffering serious reverses in 1199.

The war was not going well, his party had suffered serious reverses in the fall of 1862, and he must already have been wondering if "history" would remember him as a one-term disaster who presided over the break-up of the Union.

By promoting Pan-Slavism in the Balkan Peninsula and in Austria-Hungary, Russia played a leading role in the events that led to the outbreak (1914) of World War I. Ill-prepared and cut off from its allies in the West, the country suffered serious reverses in the war at the hands of the Germans and Austrians.

To end up in such diplomatic isolation is a serious reverse.

The fall of Tikrit would be a serious reverse for the Islamic State, though it is easy to exaggerate its impact.

So when delegates came to choose their emergency motion to debate at Saturday lunchtime, the kill-the-bill tendency suffered a serious reverse.

If it were to be implemented, the idea would be a serious reverse for supporters of the sort of supranational integration favoured by Germany and the European commission.

The World Champion Veselin Topalov's fifty per cent at last month's Amber tournament in Monaco surely counts as quite a serious reverse, even though he did score 6.5/11 at straight Rapidplay and 4.5/11 at the more specialised Blindfold rapidplay.