Sentence examples for was not victory from inspiring English sources

What the strategists of the Vietnam war had always most feared was not the reality of defeat but the appearance of defeat, and what they had most wanted in Vietnam was not victory but victory's image.

The jihadis needed a text that would school them in the proper way to fight battles whose real objective was not victory over the Soviets but martyrdom and eternal salvation.

In a sense Reagan was right in saying the govt. was "afraid to let" the military "win" in Vietnam - except that what the govt. feared was not victory but annihilation.

As it turned out, what air power provided was not victory, but carnage, terror, rubble -- and resistance.

It is not victory.

The result is not victory".

But it is not victory either.

That is not victory in the battle against it.

But the key is not victory, his campaign says.

What are needed are clear signs that its aim is not victory, but peace.

So the realistic aim in Afghanistan, with current resources, is not victory, but containment.