Sentence examples for severe reverses from inspiring English sources

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His switch was decisive: the governor of Saint-Domingue, Étienne Laveaux, made Toussaint lieutenant governor; the British suffered severe reverses; and the Spaniards were expelled.

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Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, suffered a severe reverse in regional elections last month as voters punished the party for failing to crack down on corruption, impunity and brutal drug gang violence.

While the official reaction to Brexit would be expressions of regret coupled with bravura declarations that the show will stay on the road, there could be no disguising that it would be the most severe reverse to the EU in its history.

At that time, we had been married for just a year, and when I took her as my date to a high-school dance she had a severe reverse-nostalgic experience akin to an LSD flashback or a grand-mal seizure, and for a couple of hours it looked as though we might have to get divorced, even though we weren't finished writing all the thank-you notes for our wedding presents.

As shown in Fig. 5, the voltage stresses of the switch and the diode are both as high as the output voltage which leads to a large conduction resistor of the switch and severe reverse recovery problem of the diode.

When the duty cycle approaches unity, a large pulse current will conduct through the diode in a short time, which leads to large the current stress of the diode and severe reverse recovery problem.

I had severe financial reverses when my son was departing for his freshman year of college, and I apologized to him as I told him the sad news that he was on his own.

In summarizing the Special Term's decision and its own, the Appellate Division decided that "the conclusion that Loral acted deliberately and voluntarily, without being under immediate pressure of incurring severe business reverses, precludes a [272 N.E.2d 538] recovery on the theory of economic duress" (35 A.D.2d 391, 316, 316 N.Y.S.2d 532, 532).

In summarizing the Special Term's decision and its own, the Appellate Division decided that "the conclusion that Loral acted deliberately and voluntarily, without being under immediate pressure of incurring severe business reverses, precludes a recovery on the theory of economic duress" (35 A D 2d 391, 391).

After a severe naval reverse, the first infantry units fought their way onto the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25 , 1915

He had suffered a severe emotional reverse; and, besides he too would have had urged upon him the necessity of 'settling down'.

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