Sentence examples for technical defeat from inspiring English sources
"technical defeat" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English
You can use it when you have lost an argument or competition but have been able to defend your position well. For example: "Although I lost the debate, I was able to make my points convincingly enough to earn a technical defeat."
It's as if he's willing to let a technical defeat with super-delegates from past states swallow him up when he could be mobilizing an electric, unbeatable black and brown force in California.
And yet despite its technical defeat last year, the Council on Foreign Relations Nigeria Security Tracker indicates that so far this year the number of people killed by Boko Haram has exceeded 200.
On February 19, William Carlos Ives of the Supreme Court of Alberta dealt the government another blow when he struck down key provincial legislation, including one act reducing the interest paid on the province's bonds by half (though this was only a technical defeat, since the government had been defaulting on its bond payments since the previous April).
LAKERS 103, PISTONS 90 Kobe Bryant scored 33 points without playing in the fourth quarter, and visiting Los Angeles took advantage of Richard Hamilton's early ejection for two technical fouls to defeat Detroit.
But in comic operas it is almost impossible to sort out how much of the comic effect is derived from the book and how much from the music; and the highest forms of musical humour, the unexpected delights of a lighthearted scherzo by Mozart, defy verbal analysis, unless it is so specialized and technical as to defeat its purpose.
In San Bernardino, Apple resisted such a warrant as illegal and dangerous, prompting the FBI to contradict its assurances to the court that it possessed no other way into an iPhone 5C used by a San Bernardino terrorist and abandon the case after finding technical means to defeat the phone's security measures.
Andrée made observations concerning aero-electricity, and he did it with such resourcefulness, solving technical problems that defeated the other nations, that the Swedish results were considered the best.
The legislature authorized the use of electronic tabulating equipment to expedite the tabulating process and to eliminate the possibility of human error in the counting process, not to create a technical obstruction which defeats the rights of qualified voters.
After defeating a technical tigress like Russia's Irina Slutskaya, and crushing yearlong doubts about her passion, Kwan used Carroll's shoulder to sponge her happy tears.
Trinidad was matched with Joppy, whom he defeated by technical knockout in the fifth round of a contest that took place on May 12 , 2001
Celtic say Neil Lennon was advised by his own security staff against sitting in the stand at Ibrox after being sent from the technical area in the 3-2 defeat by Rangers.
