Examples of defeat

• The French were defeated at Waterloo in 1815.

• The team were overwhelmingly defeated in yesterday's game.

• The North defeated the South in the American Civil War.

• The bill was defeated in the Commons by 249 votes to 131.

• The four-times champion was unexpectedly defeated in the second round of the competition.

• The Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in the last election.

• Her silence was taken as an admission of defeat.

• He was famed for his stubborn resistance and his refusal to accept defeat.

• Saturday's 2-0 defeat dashed their hopes of reaching the final.

• His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.

• In fact, any error in measuring the favourability of news coverage would have defeated the purpose, which was to estimate media effects.

• The movement was defeated but repression was quite limited.

• On reflection, however, these corresponding victories and defeats do not tell the true story.

• If defeated, he would immediately call a general election.

• Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity.

• Television seems to me inimical to this inner sense, which is defeated by the ephemerality of the televisual flow.

• Revelations and confessions produce resolution and stability by defeating ignorance and equalising the knowledge of the audience and the characters.

• During the porfiriato, challenges to authority in the factory were usually and regularly defeated.

• Among the latter, some viewed workers as eliteled, while others saw them as radical and threatening but defeated by 1916\17.

• With a financial system based on municipal rents, the possibility of decent maintenance and upkeep was defeated by the massive scale of non-payment.

• Parts of a defeated group's inkatha were incorporated into that of the victorious group.

• Corticotropin-releasing factor antagonist reduces emotionality in socially defeated rats via direct neurotropic action.

• Obviously recent defeats, outrage at domestic political developments and unfavourable international circumstances all played a major role in such a cycle of commitment.

• Candidates running against the establishment were defeating candidates who had until recently appeared unbeatable.

• Only historical materialism could take "the tiger's leap into the past" to bring back to consciousness precisely the defeated, marginalized, and forgotten resisters.