Sentence examples for until its defeat from inspiring English sources

He pledged to continue the war against Iraq until its defeat and then abruptly made peace.

The party, which governed for eight years until its defeat in December 2011 elections, is now in opposition.

Nevertheless, Deiotarus continued to support the anti-Caesarian party until its defeat at Philippi (42), when he went over to the triumvirs.

Some think it is moving towards formal hegemony, as exercised by Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party for seven decades until its defeat in 2000.

Khalilzad's visitor was Falah al-Naqib, a Sunni Arab who had been Iraq's interior minister in the pro-American government of Iyad Allawi until its defeat, in last January's elections, by a coalition of Shiite religious parties.

Even after Sparta's triumph at the end of the Peloponnesian War (404 bce), Athens remained an independent, sovereign state until its defeat by Philip II of Macedonia at the battle of Chaeronea (338 bce).

Britain held the land for more than twenty years, until after its defeat in the American Revolutionary War.

Proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Europe and the United States in its latter years, it presided over a functioning civil state in the areas it held until its comprehensive defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan military.

But American officials have maintained ties with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, who leads Fatah, the dominant political movement until its electoral defeat in January.

And then there is Montségur, the spiritual centre of the Cathar Church in the Languedoc from 1204 until its final defeat at the hands of the French Crusaders.

Despite economic collapse and periodic eruptions of dissent, the regime managed to keep a grip on power until its humiliating defeat by NATO in the Kosovo war of 1999-2000.