Sentence examples for strategic defeats from inspiring English sources

Terry Semel, Yahoo!'s boss, has suffered a string of strategic defeats, having been outbid by Google for a stake in AOL and for YouTube, the leader in online video.

"We must avoid the trap of winning tactical victories, but suffering strategic defeats, by causing civilian casualties or excessive damage and thus alienating the people," he wrote in a tactical directive ahead of the operation.

And Latin America's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, lost two senior commanders in a week, the latest in a string of tactical and strategic defeats.

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Its four fourr!) directors are still dripping from all the water-carrying they did for the Iraq war (which, according to Brooks, is one of the now-three great strategic defeats of the past several decades. Given their track record, one wonders why Brooks is impressed by their opinion).

Then, Israel suffered a strategic defeat.

"Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Near strategic defeat for al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.

To result in strategic defeat?" the former American diplomat told me.

A tactical victory became a strategic defeat and led to the virtual abdication of President Johnson.

That became a strategic defeat for the US and its closest allies.