But you could leave the hotel, much as I would consider that a personal defeat.

Each time a person dies or leaves, Ma suffers a personal defeat.

The subject came up first only because it seemed to me a personal defeat.

Murray could see that the head of C-13 still looked on this as a very personal defeat.

I don't view the results as a personal defeat.

I got the impression you were taking all this as a personal defeat.

It was a very personal defeat for the two men, both of whom started with the bank in their 20's and never worked anywhere else.

How many others are there who think it a personal defeat to have to stop at a corner?

The government's failure to pass the bill is widely interpreted as a personal defeat for the President.

Graves sighed, trying to tell himself that this did not represent a personal defeat.