"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For it is an axiom of the House Republicans to do everything they can to avoid even the possibility of outright defeat.
- An outright defeat, Mr. Berger said, could vitiate American credibility and "give other countries a pretext" to resume testing.
- That case, which is being appealed, was the industry's first outright defeat.
- Opponents are seeking significant changes - or outright defeat of the legislation - and raising the specter of a filibuster.
- They were beaten back by the Australian Army, which inflicted the first outright defeat on Japanese land forces since 1939.
- Because, Cletas my friend, those catapults may spell the difference between outright defeat and stalemate for us.
- An outright defeat is hard to imagine, Republicans acknowledge, given Mrs. Clinton's approval rating of about 70 percent in New York.
- In contrast to the early 1980's, many guerrilla actions are now a draw or outright defeat.
- Hanoi's post-incursion depiction of the border war was that Beijing had sustained a military setback if not an outright defeat.
- This innings helped Tamil Nadu to avoid an outright defeat, hanging on for a draw with one wicket in hand.
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