"Because of loyal workers like you, the enemy is being defeated".
"It's a metaphor for an empire that is being defeated," he said nonchalantly in an interview.
Abubakar said on Thursday: "It doesn't matter whether he is dead or alive, the main thing is the group is being defeated".
Violence is down two-thirds, al-Qaida is being defeated, Sunni tribes are working with the coalition, and refugees are starting to return - 67,000 since September.
Just as the US Constitution was being rewritten, the Confederate states, already stricken by the embargo, were being defeated by Union forces.
We only want to hear how the good guys (us) win and the bad guys (them) are being defeated.
Democrats were not only losing presidential elections, they were being defeated by such striking margins that many wondered if they would ever regain the White House.
Won't that push them more to the left and right, if their centrist candidates are being defeated by you?" "There's something here that defies ideology," Nick says.
Perhaps the chronic World Cup underperformer, Spain, will play to its full potential — it's been defeated just once in its last 45-plus games — and triumph.
Dragons director of rugby Lyn Jones says motivation for the return match on New Year's Day lies "with the team that's been defeated".
