Sentence examples for understand defeat from inspiring English sources

"This is maybe going to be a generation born in flames, because these are people who understand defeat and are maybe going to be made more disciplined by it," City Councilman Bill de Blasio said.

Pete Weatherby QC, Mrs Williams' barrister, said she had had "a quiet determination [and was] a tremendous force who didn't understand defeat".

We use light-based medical tools to help understand and defeat disease.

"We cannot let people who do not understand us, defeat us.

As in the early stages of AIDS, we are still searching to define an enemy so that we can understand and defeat it.

David A. Drachman, a University of Massachusetts professor of neurology, said of Dr. Katzman, "His key goal was that everyone must hear of Alzheimer's disease, if we are to understand and defeat it".

Especially when the witch in question is trying to understand and defeat a Curse put on her family years ago -- a Curse that robbed her of her mother and is threatening to destroy everything she holds dear.

As reported in yesterday's New York Times, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan seems to understand that defeating the P.K.K. requires more than arms.

The prime minister and I both understand that defeating global terror requires a broad-based, long-term strategy.

Others were simply hard to understand -- defeated by the extra loud music.

He's going to talk to the prostitutes about male and female condoms, the sex trade and safe sex options as part of his campaign to understand and ultimately defeat AIDS in Africa.