"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As the German defeat looms, Max crumbles, and the relationship begins to shift; a sort of cross-identification occurs, the strong becoming weak and vice versa.
- On Friday night, as defeat loomed, Chancellor Harold O. Levy - whose support for Edison had been lukewarm at best - began talking about alternatives.
- As defeat loomed, Mrs. Gandhi went on the offensive.
- Bush had known that defeat was looming in Iowa, and he had scuttled out of the state and gone to New Hampshire before the results were known.
- But she has been frustrated in efforts to get it through Parliament, most recently last August, when she withdrew her proposal as certain defeat loomed.
- She knew she was losing the battle, but it was her nature to fight on, even when defeat loomed.
- The short sword was notorious for its use when defeat or dishonor loomed over the Japanese samurai, who would then commit seppuku by disemboweling himself.
- We draw from that a Clinton willingness to compromise when defeat looms.
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