These forces succeeded in passing a resolution declaring the Faith and Message "sufficient in its current form .The most conservative Baptists are hardly defeated.
The publication of three poems by Dolmatovsky indicates that while conservative elements in Russia may be fighting a losing battle, they are hardly defeated.
Al Qaeda in Iraq is hardly defeated, but recent academic research on decapitation as a strategy suggests that in this case, it may in fact have put the group closer to demise — not so much because the airstrikes were accurate as because Iraqis have lost respect for the group.
(In several Royal Ballet revivals of "Birthday Offering," dancing hardly occurred: the dancers were just defeated by the steps).
Barker had the big edge with New Zealand leading, 8-5, but Spithill was hardly conceding defeat.
For the Republican operatives running these companies, 2012 was hardly a defeat.
But considering that the players had been pallbearers at the funeral for their former coach, it was hardly a defeat.
But the sum of the day's rounds -- part theater, part legal tactic -- was hardly a defeat.
Serena Williams had her right thigh heavily wrapped, but the defense of her Australian Open championship was hardly slowed as she defeated the Polish teenager Urszula Radwanska, 6-2, 6-1.
Rusedski, though, was hardly gracious in defeat: "I tried my best.
