Sentence examples for tactical defeats from inspiring English sources

The second Battle of Cold Harbor (June 3 12 , 1864 is considered one of the worst tactical defeats suffered by the North in the Civil War, though its subsequent effect was negligible.

To liberals, any such arrangement seems to undermine the authority of women bishops.While suffering tactical defeats from liberals, his broader challenge and the ongoing challenge of the church has been to survive in a world where only the strongest religious medicine seems to be sure of finding takers.

Nevertheless, the Belgians had inflicted many casualties and several tactical defeats on the Germans.

Ber put the responsibility of the tactical defeats on the failures of the intelligence services and on the "absence de commandement séparé sur les différents fronts".

This picture of merely tactical defeat was not the one that I retained.

"Enemy forces had suffered a severe tactical defeat," the military's executive summary said.

House Republicans have suffered a huge tactical defeat of their own devising, and their approval ratings are at an all-time low.

Stonewall Jackson's tactical defeat at Kernstown bought Johnston time to improve his defenses, and in the spring of 1862, time was a precious commodity for the South.

Srisompob Jitpiromsri, the associate dean at Prince of Songkla University in the southern city of Pattani and one of the foremost experts on the insurgency, described Wednesday's failed insurgent attack as a "tactical defeat" for them.

The fact that Mr. Wen spoke at all, however, represented a tactical defeat in a struggle that has become a focal point in the larger tug-of-war with the United States over influence in the region.

His tactical defeat at Kernstown was a strategic Southern victory: His audacious attack at Kernstown suggested to McClellan that Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley were greater than he assumed — just what General Johnston had wanted.