Sentence examples for shattering defeat from inspiring English sources

It didn't just kill huge numbers of them, it brought shattering defeat and ushered in a century of political upheaval and ethnic conflict.

One adviser to the Clintons pointed out to me that after Bill Clinton's shattering defeat in 1980 it was Hillary who decided to come to the fore and manage him into a comeback.

And, in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and the blow that shattering defeat dealt to the pride and post-independence pretensions of Arabs everywhere, there had been riots and demonstrations in his otherwise tranquil, western-protected kingdom.

Lionel Wilson, who presided over a racial, cultural, economic and political revolution during three terms as the first black mayor of Oakland, Calif., then suffered shattering defeat when he sought another four-year term in 1990, died on Jan . 23at his home in Oakland.

Last month's shattering defeat has forced its leadership candidates to address the issue.

The victory came a year after a shattering defeat to Japan in penalty kicks at the final of the Women's World Cup.

The failure of the Iraqi army to reconstitute itself after shattering defeats at the hands of Isis last summer has important political and military consequences.

Then in 2007, shattering defeats by the Pumas, whose name comes from a South African writer's misidentification of the jaguarette on their badge, bookended France's term as host of the World Cup.

In the summer of 1937 this new approach led China into full-scale war with Japan, a series of shattering defeats and the retreat of Chiang's forces far up the Yangtze River to the province of Sichuan.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the best-organized grassroots group in the country, is shattered, defeated by a brutal and efficient crackdown by the military government that had removed the group and their President, Mohamed Morsi, from power in early July.

Capello and his players landed at Heathrow this morning but were whisked away without offering any further opinion on Sunday's shattering 4-1 defeat by Germany in Bloemfontein that consigned them to an early flight home.