In the Late Classic the site appears to have recovered from its earlier defeat.

This was his earliest defeat, and first time failing stage 1 since Sasuke 18.

It was the earliest large-scale defeat suffered by the orders in Baltic lands.

After an early defeat in 1996, Clare were out for victory in 1997.

United avenged their earlier defeat with a 3-0 win.

They will find our castle difficult indeed and I am not appre- hensive about an early defeat.

That earlier defeat, a 2-1 loss at home to Uruguay in the 1950 title game, was the most unexpected result before tonight.

After an early defeat by humans he took to studying their literature in order to better understand them.

Each early defeat comes as something of a surprise - "Oh, I didn't think about that!"

Or they may feel humiliated by their earlier defeat.