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Sentence Examples Some of her friends were surprised by her retreat from public life following her defeat in the election. This latest defeat means that she's no longer a contender for the world title. These are the people who will overcome the adversity, chaos, and destruction of combat and defeat the enemy in war. Not surprisingly, in view of their country's defeat in the Crimean War, they were Anglophobes to a man. Teams were awarded four points for a win, two points for a draw and none for a defeat. This defeat set the scene for the Saintonge War and the Hundred Years' War. At the Battle of Langport on 10 July, Cromwell participated in the defeat of the last sizeable Royalist field army. On four occasions in letters in 1648 he referred to the story of Gideon's defeat of the Midianites at Ain Harod. On 9 December, the two sides fought a second engagement with the Battle of Reading, a defeat for the King's men. After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France. He attempted to raise recruits but was unable to gather enough rebels to defeat even James's small standing army. The defeat heightened dissension and escalated political antagonism to the King's ministers. Pitt, however, took the unprecedented step of refusing to resign, despite this defeat. Pitt's support for the bill, however, was not strong enough to prevent its defeat in the House of Commons. Following the defeat of the rebellion which was assisted by France, he advanced this policy. Either way, the enemy's own impulsiveness began the process by which even a smaller French army could defeat the enemy's forces one by one. By 1815, the British Army played the central role in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. He immediately went on the offensive, hoping to defeat the forces of Piedmont before their Austrian allies could intervene. Despite their overwhelming defeat, the Prussians refused to negotiate with the French until the Russians had an opportunity to enter the fight. The scale of their defeat convinced the Russians to make peace with the French. Show More Sentences His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain's military heroes. Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture Seringapatam and defeat Tipu. After the defeat of April 1848, there was an increase rather than a decline in Chartist activity. After the defeat of Poland's armed forces, the Polish resistance established an Underground State and a partisan Home Army. These landings were successful, and led to the defeat of the German Army units in France. The destruction of Dresden, while immense, was designed to expedite the defeat of Germany. Bombing represented a sincere, albeit mistaken, attempt to bring about Germany's military defeat. In the evening he made another broadcast to the nation asserting the defeat of Japan in the coming months. After Italy's defeat in World War II, France and the UK occupied the former Italian colonies. However this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War. Cameron left Carlton to run for Parliament in 1997, returning to his job after his defeat. At the same time, there was tremendous social volatility in the aftermath of war, with many whites actively resisting defeat. But sporadic Viking incursions continued until the Norman Conquest, including the disastrous defeat of the Devonians at the Battle of Pinhoe. In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat in battle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son Malcolm. Admiral Middlebrooks laid down his flag as a result of the humiliating defeat at the hands of France. After the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in 1914, large receptions were held inside the church. The Saxon defeat resulted in their forced christening and the absorption of Old Saxony into the Carolingian Empire. Although the Romans had experience in land battles, to defeat this new enemy, naval battles were necessary. However, soon after, this expansion was abruptly stopped in 1071 with the Byzantine defeat in the Battle of Manzikert. However, the campaign ended three years later with Edward's defeat and death in the Battle of Faughart. Show More Sentences The war ended in defeat for the Irish Gaelic alliance, and brought an end to the independence of the last Irish Gaelic kingdoms. During the 1965 presidential election, Fatima Jinnah failed to defeat Field Marshal Ayub Khan despite strong support in East Pakistan. The defeat at Brindisi put an end to the restored Byzantine reign in Italy, and by 1158 the Byzantine Army had left Italy. It is inserted after Fordun's account of the defeat of Simon de Montfort and the punishment of his adherents. The next night, after celebrating Grendel's defeat, Hrothgar and his men sleep in Heorot. In the end, the only way they seem to defeat time is through a death that makes them immortal through art. Burke was appalled by celebrations in Britain of the defeat of the Americans at New York and Pennsylvania. It has been said that if Byron had lived and had gone on to defeat the Ottomans, he might have been declared King of Greece. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, sustaining the ruling and ensuring the defeat of the suit. There were no rounds and boxers fought until one of them acknowledged defeat or could not continue. After taking a single point from their opening two games, Scotland had to defeat the Netherlands by three clear goals to progress. A home defeat by Germany and a late equalising goal by Poland eliminated Scotland from contention. In 2004, a special gold version of the trophy was commissioned to commemorate Arsenal winning the title without a single defeat. After a scoreless first half, Real Madrid scored twice in six minutes to defeat the Italians. Liverpool suffered its second Cup Final defeat in 1950, playing against Arsenal. Pakistan overcame a dismal start in the tournament to eventually defeat England by 22 runs in the final and emerge as winners. After the defeat of the Republic in 1939, Samaranch studied commerce at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He played for the Falcons in their 1999 Tetley's Bitter Cup final defeat to the London Wasps. Wilkinson then landed 7 penalties and a drop goal to defeat Owen Farrell's Saracens. By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat. Show More Sentences The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated. Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits. Confessionalization represents the defeat of efforts to rebuild the unified Latin Church. While they have still only suffered one home defeat by Spurs in 19 years, this was not as convincing a victory as the scoreline suggests. Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation. The Brazilians are eating their hearts out over their defeat by Germany in the World Cup. Jawohl, Herr Doktor. I have created the ultimate weapon to defeat Austin Powers. Send in the fembots! In this context, the humiliating defeat of 1971 and the Indian nuclear test were major factors in the Pakistani decision to go nuclear. In the end, there was nothing that Frost could do to defeat Sessions, who won handedly by 56 to 44 percent. Later, an uprising led by Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, ended with Boudica's suicide following her defeat at the Battle of Watling Street. After the defeat of the Soviets in 1989, civil war, state collapse and Taliban victory followed. The Afghan people have seen this movie already. Despite the defeat of its European allies in the first year of the war, the United Kingdom continued the fight alone against Germany. After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 there was a huge expansion of maritime trade. The defeat of such a bill by the House of Commons indicates that a Government no longer has the confidence of that House. Following the defeat of the rebellion, which had had some assistance from France, he advanced this policy. In 1920, following Germany's defeat in the First World War, a plebiscite was held to determine which areas should return to Danish control. Sweden's defeat in the Great Northern War brought Russia to the eastern coast. Bede attributes this defeat to God's vengeance for the Northumbrian attack on the Irish in the previous year. Show More Sentences With defeat came enforced baptism and conversion as well as the union of the Saxons with the rest of the Germanic, Frankish empire. They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat. Unable to defeat Hannibal on Italian soil, the Romans boldly sent an army to Africa under Scipio Africanus to threaten the Carthaginian capital. Cassius Dio presents this as Plautius needing the emperor's assistance to defeat the resurgent British, who were determined to avenge Togodumnus. Knowing the terrain from his prior military service in Britain, he was able to move quickly to defeat and virtually exterminate them. After his final defeat he fled to the territory of Queen Cartimandua, who captured him and handed him over to the Romans. We do not know whether he became the king after the mentioned defeat of the Iceni. He launched an expensive campaign against the Persians, which ended in defeat and his own death. Aetius concentrated his limited military resources to defeat the Visigoths again, and his diplomacy restored a degree of order to Hispania. Raising a new army he advanced towards Mathura once again. But this time too he had to suffer an ignomous defeat. Wulfhere initially succeeded in restoring the power of Mercia, but the end of his reign saw a serious defeat by Northumbria. The defeat at Wilton smashed any remaining hope that Alfred could drive the invaders from his kingdom. They then went to Essex and, after suffering another defeat at Benfleet, joined with Hastein's force at Shoebury. The following year the Northumbrian Danes attacked Mercia, but suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Tettenhall. He then succeeded his cousin as King of Dublin, but after a heavy defeat in battle in 947, he was once again forced to try his luck elsewhere. Although this was William's first defeat in battle, it did little to change things. Word of William's defeat at Gerberoi stirred up difficulties in northern England. However, Geoffrey still didn't assist Matilda even as she was on the verge of defeat. Saladin attempted to harass Richard's army into breaking its formation in order to defeat it in detail. Montfort stood little chance against the superior royal forces, and after his defeat he was killed and mutilated on the field. Show More Sentences It was not until August 1297 that he was finally able to sail for Flanders, at which time his allies there had already suffered defeat. What resolved the situation was the English defeat by the Scots at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. The defeat sent shockwaves into England, and preparations for a retaliatory campaign started immediately. Following the defeat of his allies at the Battle of Bouvines, John had to sue for peace and pay compensation. In the Battle of Poitiers, the French suffered another humiliating defeat, and their king was captured. Margaret's defeat at the Battle of Towton confirmed Edward's position and he was crowned. Edward's authority was weakened by poor governance and defeat by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. Later, Cunningham was determined that as many Allied soldiers as possible should be evacuated after their defeat on Crete. England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history. These events led rapidly to Mary's defeat and imprisonment in Loch Leven Castle. After the rebels' defeat, over 750 of them were executed on Elizabeth's orders. The defeat of the armada was a potent propaganda victory, both for Elizabeth and for Protestant England. He was replaced by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who took three years to defeat the rebels. Francis's defeat in 1544 led to the annulment of the alliance with the Protestants, and Charles took advantage of the opportunity. As a result, while the defeat was not a rout, the high status of the Army of Flanders was ended at Rocroi. After this defeat, the Dutch abandoned their efforts to take Manila and the Philippines. After Napoleon's defeat in 1815, Europe's borders were redrawn at the Congress of Vienna. The Armada Memorial in Plymouth was constructed in 1888 to celebrate the tercentenary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Without Parliament's support, Charles attacked Scotland again, breaking the truce at Berwick, and suffered a comprehensive defeat. Show More Sentences After his defeat in 1645, he surrendered to a Scottish force that eventually handed him over to the English Parliament. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. The Bantams bridged the gap between the bottom division of English league football and the Premier League to secure a place at Wembley, despite a 2-1 second-leg defeat. An example of this nationalism can be seen in Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton's opening speech to Parliament in 1589 in the aftermath of the defeat of the Armada. A subsequent international took place at the Oval in London on 5 February 1872 which saw England defeat Scotland by a goal, a drop goal and two tries to one drop goal. The King drafted an abdication notice, which was never delivered, finally accepted the defeat in North America, and authorised peace negotiations. Measures such as mass conscription, military reforms, and total war allowed France to defeat the coalition, despite the concurrent civil war in France. On 6 May 1364, one month after the dauphin's accession and three days before his coronation as Charles V, the Navarrese suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Cocherel. In Scotland, the English regime change prompted border raids that were countered by an invasion in 1402 and the defeat of a Scottish army at the Battle of Homildon Hill. After Cnut's death in 1035, England and Norway were lost, and with the defeat of Valdemar II in 1227, Danish predominance in the region came to an end. The monarch could in theory unilaterally dismiss a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister's term now comes to an end only by electoral defeat, death, or resignation. Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica. Henry was aware that his best chance to seize the throne was to engage Richard quickly and defeat him immediately, as Richard had reinforcements in Nottingham and Leicester. The Vijayanagara Empire was based in the Deccan Plateau although its power was diminished after a major military defeat in 1565 by the Deccan sultanates. From the moment he had become opposition leader following the defeat of Lindsay Thompson's government in 1982, Jeff Kennett had been viewed as a political larrikin. One of the most important operations conducted predominantly by the Royal Navy after the Second World War was the 1982 defeat of Argentina in the Falkland Islands War. The treaty enregistred the defeat of French ambitions expressed in the wars of Louis XIV and preserved the European system based on the balance of power. The Napoleonic code was adopted throughout much of Continental Europe, though only in the lands he conquered, and remained in force after Napoleon's defeat. Opposition from all other major parties led to an expected defeat. Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth. Show More Sentences They refused to attribute the defeat at Tenerife to him, preferring instead to blame poor planning on the part of St Vincent, the Secretary at War or even William Pitt. How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler? Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a draw, and none for a defeat. Therefore, people who did not wish to buckle up would defeat this system by fastening the seat belts with the seat empty and leaving them that way. The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign. When he determined that a long defensive war would ruin his army, Wellesley decided to act boldly to defeat the numerically larger force of the Maratha Empire. There was hope in Madrid that the Netherlands might finally be reincorporated into the Empire, and after the defeat of Denmark the Protestants in Germany seemed crushed. This was a method that, in a modified form, permeated through to the official championship when one point was awarded for a win but one was deducted for a defeat. Seven years after their defeat, with Roman dominance of the area looking assured, the Samnites rose again and defeated a Roman army in 298 BC, to open the Third Samnite War. However, after training more sailors and inventing a grappling engine, a Roman naval force was able to defeat a Carthaginian fleet, and further naval victories followed. The defeat at Rocroi also led to the dismissal of the embattled Olivares, who was confined to his estates by the king's order and died two years later, broken and mad. Cassivellaunus realised he could not defeat Caesar in a pitched battle. Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. Yorkshire won their third Championship in 1898 and narrowly failed in 1899 when only a defeat late in the season by Kent prevented the retention of the title. The main German air superiority campaign started in August but failed to defeat RAF Fighter Command, and a proposed invasion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September. The first attempt by General Lorencez was repulsed by the forces of General Ignacio Zaragoza at Puebla on 5 May 1862, the first defeat of a French Army since Waterloo. The future governor Quintus Petillius Cerialis, then commanding the Legio IX Hispana, attempted to relieve the city, but suffered an overwhelming defeat. Suetonius considered giving battle there, but considering his lack of numbers and chastened by Petillius's defeat, decided to sacrifice the city to save the province. In England, the boost to national pride from the defeat of the Spanish invasion attempt lasted for years, and Elizabeth's legend persisted and grew long after her death. In January 1941 secret high level staff talks with the British began for the purposes of determining how to defeat Germany should the US enter the war. Show More Sentences On the other hand, his failed war against Dacia was a humiliating defeat. After the Royalist defeat at Worcester, Charles II escaped, via safe houses and a famous oak tree, to France, and Parliament was left in de facto control of England. After the defeat of the Mercian king Beornwulf around AD 825, Sigered, the last king of Essex, ceded the kingdom which then became a possession of the Wessex king Egbert. After the Conservative Party suffered an unexpected defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. Charles's army did not engage the Covenanters as the king feared the defeat of his forces, whom he believed to be significantly outnumbered by the Scots. This resulted in his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae. Anyway, battle put the princes' lives at risk, as is demonstrated by the Northumbrian and Mercian overlordships brought to an end by a defeat in the field. Clough's tenure as manager started badly, with defeat in the Charity Shield Match against Liverpool in which Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were sent off for fighting. Peter May stood down as captain in 1961 following the 1961 Ashes defeat. In October 2000, the stadium closed its doors, ending with a defeat. Fox, who became Pitt's lifelong political rival, then joined a coalition with Lord North, with whom he collaborated to bring about the defeat of the Shelburne administration. There commenced a period of minor skirmishes with Saladin's forces, punctuated by another defeat in the field for the Ayyubid army at the Battle of Jaffa. This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England. Following the defeat of 1951 the party spent 13 years in opposition. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of defeat? Words that rhyme with defeat What is the past tense of defeat? What is the plural of defeat? What is the adverb for defeat? What is the adjective for defeat? What is the noun for defeat? Translations for defeat Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words defeasibly defeasible defeasibility defeasance DEFCON DefCon defeated defeatedly defeater defeating defeatism defeatist 6-letter Words Starting With d de def defe defea