He has also suffered his share of courtroom defeats.
Italy is a three-time World Cup champion, but has had more than its share of numbing defeats in Cup play.
In the past year, Tiffeny Milbrett has suffered her share of excruciating defeats, starting with an overtime loss by the American women's soccer team to Norway in the gold-medal game at the Sydney Olympics last September.
I have cheered through many "thrills of victory" and suffered more than my fair share of "agonies of defeat".
"Without the state changing its delegate allocation to winner-take-all," he wrote, "I do not see a path forward that does not risk our shared objective of defeating Barack Obama in November".
"Our goal is an enduring partnership with Afghanistan that strengthens Afghan sovereignty, stability and prosperity and that contributes to the shared goal of defeating Al Qaeda and its extremist allies," he said.
Ryan has little in common with the Republican presidential nominee, except for a shared goal of defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In a statement, Obama said the accord would allow the U.S. and Afghanistan "to cement an enduring partnership that strengthens Afghan sovereignty, stability, unity and prosperity, and that contributes to our shared goal of defeating Al Qaeda and its extremist affiliates".
"Our goal is an enduring partnership with Afghanistan that strengthens Afghan sovereignty, stability and prosperity and that contributes to our shared goal of defeating Al Qaeda and its extremist affiliates," said Gavin Sundwall, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement that the U.S. and Iraqi governments "will continue to work together on our shared goal of defeating [Islamic State] and training a professional national security force that can protect all the Iraqi people against extremist threats".
