Sentence examples for which would defeat from inspiring English sources

Sonically, we're not going to compete with pop unless we start to amplify, which would defeat the purpose.

It could be really beautiful art but still be off-putting to a kid, which would defeat the point of doing the book.

So we hit on another approach: if the emoji went through as is, the Japanese user base might misinterpret them, which would defeat the point of standardizing them.

The school's students carried off these elements — which would defeat many foreign dancers — with apparent delight; the elegant carriage of their heads and arms was a particular pleasure.

My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes".

Banks would be likely to restore any erosion in their profit margins by raising their lending rates, which would defeat the purpose of the exercise.Such worries about negative rates might lead the ECB to consider the third option.

Absent a willingness to withdraw America's troops--which would defeat Washington's purpose--the U.S. would have had little leverage.

You could damage their ear drums which would make you feel bad, which again- would defeat the object of the exercise.

And yet, the grace with which he floated across the ring--choreographed the Ali Shuffle--predicted the round in which he would defeat his opponent paled in comparison to all that he embodied for me as a ghetto black boy.

By this standard, Obama could propose only measures that are in the Republican Party's platform — which obviously would defeat the purpose of being elected president as a progressive Democrat in the first place.

Busy as Napoleon was with the campaign in which he would defeat the Prussians at Jena, fight the savage battles of Eylau and Friedland with the Russians, and at last settle accounts with both powers in the Treaties of Tilsit, he kept regularly in touch with his wife.