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The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance.
Previously in Iraq it weakened the opposition but it never seriously defeated it".
That particular incident could have been turned into an earnest lecture on bullying; instead, Farrant takes a robust view of her characters, who are always losing blood and suffering mishaps without being too seriously defeated or triggering moral lessons.
In August 1514 Ismāʿīl was seriously defeated at Chāldirān by his Sunni rival, the Ottoman sultan Selim I. Thereafter, the continuing struggle against the Sunnis the Ottomans in the west and the Uzbeks in the northeast cost the Ṣafavids Kurdistan, Diyarbakır, and Baghdad; the Ṣafavid capital had to be relocated at Eṣfahān temporarily permanently by about the early 17th century.
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No Islamist seriously expects that a "defeated" west would hasten to adopt the spirit of the Islamic revolution.
An army spokesman, Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, claimed 12 attackers had been killed and 21 captured, saying they had aimed "to stock up on weapons and ammunition … The army has defeated them seriously".
No doubt the industry will try to resist and "keep it real", but the fact that no human could ever seriously hope to defeat a highly advanced computer racing machine seems to fatally undermine the whole process.
"Danes and Beckinsale are exceptionally talented young actresses", said Thomas, but "unfortunately, the script's seriously underdeveloped context defeats their considerable efforts at every turn".
More seriously for Isis, the Syrian Kurds defeated its fighters with US air support at Kobani and now control all but one of the border crossings with Turkey.
Poeymirau defeated n'Ifrutant in battle at Meski on 15 January, but was seriously wounded in the chest by the accidental explosion of an artillery shell and was forced to hand command to Colonel Antoine Huré.
Despite this, the Malian Army, defeated by Islamists and nomadic rebels last winter and spring, has been deemed seriously deficient by United Nations and Western military officials.
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