ignominious defeat

So the great struggle had come to an end with ignominious defeat for the King and his country.

They would wipe out the shame of their ignominious defeat!

Not to ignominious defeat without a chance to strike.

Indeed Sharpe had come within a hand's breadth of ignominious defeat.

If his people had done things hastily, they might have walked headlong into ignominious defeat.

Saints managed a brief recovery to 18-12 before falling away to ignominious defeat.

Led it to its most ignominious defeat in well over a century-at your hands, my friend."

So ended the great exodus; from one ignominious defeat at the hands of the Normans to another.

No ruler in the long history of the Imperium had ever suffered such an ignominious defeat.

He said it was an "ignominious defeat for the Russians" and represented a better outcome than many would have predicted.

The anniversary of his coronation seemed destined to be marked by ignominious defeat.

But to a veteran hang-gliding competitor, 1 percent can mean the difference between a world distance record and an ignominious defeat.

"On the one hand, George Bush was going down to ignominious defeat in a landslide.

Perhaps ignominious defeat was the fate the ancestors had decided for Riverwind.

Death motivated soldiers in a way that speeches never could, propelling some toward greatness, others into ignominious defeat.

That the dragonlances and the good dragons have not brought about ignominious defeat?"

What could be worth the intense security, the fears of defection, even the possibility of ignominious defeat?

After his ignominious defeat, he never appeared in the Main Marvel Universe again.

No other party risked ignominious defeat.

This was poor Gates, who went down - along with Buggsy - to an ignominious defeat.

I did consider pulling up and dropping out of the race altogether, but that seemed an even more ignominious defeat than being put over the rails.

This final moment when all he had worked for on this world would end in victory, or in final, ignominious defeat.

Though the "miracle of Dunkirk" has long been celebrated in Britain, it represented an ignominious defeat.

The choice was between retreat without honor and a gamble between ignominious defeat and dubious victory.

Death, ignominious defeat awaited him.