Sentence examples for was already defeated from inspiring English sources

Among his reasons, he said, was "my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary".

In another memoir, fifteen years later, after his own stint in the White House, Eisenhower wrote, "Japan was already defeated and... dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary".

That may have been the case in 1945, when Japan was already defeated, but one can only speculate about what the response of the military leaders would have been had the emperor made an effort to change their course of action in, say, 1937, when the army was flush with victories in China, or in 1940, when Japan's generals and admirals were enthralled with Hitler's conquests in Europe.

Will they explain that Japan was already defeated before the atomic bombs were dropped?

"Once that happens, you are already defeated".

"If you go into a game like that, you're already defeated.

"There was a sense that when teams came into the Garden, they were already defeated once they walked in the building," Shaw said.

"If you only preach to your kind of people, with your thoughts and theology, you're already defeated," he liked to say.

The point is that it doesn't matter anymore, since the feeling in Spain is that Eta is already defeated and hence there's no need to pay a price for its disappearance.

The photographer's mother, slumped in a white nightgown, looks like she just woke up and is already defeated; Lee comforts her with a sheen of morning light but understands that shadows might be even more reassuring.

Admiral William Leahy, in his memoirs, called the bomb "barbarous" and said that it provided "no material assistance in our war against Japan," since the Japanese were "already defeated and ready to surrender".