Sentence examples for was almost defeated from inspiring English sources

"She was almost defeated in a way," Ms. Gruss said.

Mr. Garcetti was almost defeated four years ago after the Simpson trial.

Pak was almost defeated by her health today, playing with a painful toothache that almost forced her to withdraw.

"The Minsk process took place because Kiev was almost defeated," he argues, referring to the September ceasefire deal signed last September.

While it is a setback for gay and lesbian people, it is also reflects progress as the measure passed with narrow margins and was almost defeated, something that couldn't have happened even five years ago.

The two-decade-long insurgency, backed by Pakistan, which has never renounced its claim to all of Kashmir, is almost defeated.

"Because of the decomposition of the body, any forensic evidence that could have been derived from it has disappeared, so the police investigation has in essence been almost defeated," he said.

"You don't need 50,000 men to fight an organisation that has already been marginalised," observes Murat Karayilan, a PKK commander whom the Turks tried to kill or capture during their military operation in the passes between Diyarbakir and Kulp in May.Nor, if the PKK were almost defeated, would Turkey need to use more than 10% of all public spending to deal with it.

When he is almost defeated, he summons Bahamut to do battle with the team.

Wilson was among British staff who secretly met Sanjaya Colonne in Sri Lanka in February 2009, when Tamil rebels were almost defeated and the UN was warning that hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped and under fire.

After the Battle of Neretva, during which the Partisans forced a crossing of the river against faltering Chetnik opposition, Đurišić's detachment of about 2,000 fighters fell back to Kalinovik, where they were almost defeated by the Partisan 2nd Proletarian Division in late March.