Sentence examples for small defeated from inspiring English sources

She said, "I guess I should go," and gave her head a small, defeated shake.

But the transfer is likely to be seen by many as less about justice than about money, and the way large, victorious nations get their way over small, defeated ones.

Even a small defeat is a problem for Milosevic.

(So many of these small defeats occurred at Christmas. Christmas can make everything so woeful).

Musically, Thursday was not without its small defeats but owed ultimate success to its conductor, Willie Anthony Waters.

JC Chandor makes epic movies about fallen heroes, ripping yarns about small defeats.

Didn't they know that they too would eventually compromise, wrinkle, suffer large and small defeats, seem foolish to their children?

At 55, she knew that her life was full of small defeats at the hands of people who rightfully should have obeyed her automatically.

To pursue this campaign the student movement will have to reverse or sideline the past decade's ideological disintegration, as clear political demands such as free education gave way to NUS support for a graduate tax – leading to a succession of small defeats.

But in this tidy and fascinating documentary, making its New York premiere today at Film Forum, the accretions of small defeats recorded by the intelligent filmmakers Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk don't sap the will of the young African refugees transplanted to the United States to make a better life.

That, and the conviction that the sum of what I've learned from all those small defeats is a valuable asset.