| In the end the brave man who survived the Normandy landings had to admit defeat and it left him a broken man. |
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| The Thais, like the Cambodians after them, failed to respond with much enthusiasm to the new faith and the clergy eventually had to admit defeat. |
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| After flipping through the heavy pages of the tome for nearly half an hour, she had to admit defeat. |
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| But his own stubbornness got the better of him and he refused to admit defeat. |
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| All his life was devoted to battles from which he never wished to admit defeat even if his commitment sometimes stemmed more from obstinacy. |
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| I was in conflict with this miracle of nature for many years, until I eventually had to admit defeat. |
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| He was very careful to avoid using such words as surrender so as not to blatantly admit defeat. |
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| The key to being successful is to have discipline, be broad-minded and be willing to admit defeat if an investment goes against you. |
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| It takes a good leader to not only recognize, but admit defeat. |
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| Rather than admit defeat, the college used the Internet to launch lecture notes and coursework assignments into cyberspace, and held whole lectures online. |
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| It was striking to hear the Prime Minister in his Q and A session in Beamsville, Ontario, last week admit defeat in this regard. |
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| Having lost the first minutes, though, I shall admit defeat and carry on debating in the next round. |
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| Mr President, we did not win the vote against Strasbourg and I admit defeat on this issue for the time being. |
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| Their capitulation would be welcomed, but they are not of the nature to admit defeat. |
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| Election officials declared Sergei Bagapsh to be the winner but Raul Khajimba refused to admit defeat and started legal proceedings to petition for a new vote. |
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| It is precisely these residual products that are attractive to criminals and terrorists, who, by threatening to spread dangerous substances, force others to admit defeat. |
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| Too proud and too ashamed to admit defeat, all they have left is the dream of an Afterlife that resembles the paradise they could not find on Earth! |
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| Confronted with these challenges, we must not give up and admit defeat! |
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| The European Union should now do what it should have done before: consult ports, trade unions and shipping lines from scratch, starting with a blank sheet of paper, and on this proposal it should admit defeat. |
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| In each case, citizens employed democratic methods, including voting and protests, to force authoritarian incumbents or their anointed successors to admit defeat. |
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| As soon as the first results were announced, the party spokesman Tariq Azeem was forced to admit defeat and said that 'the PML-Q would learn to sit in the Opposition and congratulated the winners of the election. |
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| As far as internal competition was concerned, Chris Hoy got off to a rather difficult start in Manchester: he was forced to admit defeat to his young teammate Jason Kenny in a tension-filled sprint semi-final. |
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| If there is no reason to admit defeat, why do so? |
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| I would like to thank Mrs Napoletano, because we have at least managed to ensure that the Commission undertakes to no longer admit defeat by the local governments in the democratisation programmes. |
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| Maury, however, was unwilling to admit defeat. |
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| In the quarterfinals, however, she was caught off guard by Cuba's Castillo and forced to admit defeat, having waited too long to bring her offensive skills to bear. |
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| They should overcome their stubbornness and admit defeat. |
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| I ended up having to admit defeat and suffering from gastric flu and I'm determined I won't rush back as quickly when I've got the three boys. |
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| Hitler's refusal to admit defeat and his repeated insistence that the war be fought to the last man led to unnecessary death and destruction in the closing months of the war. |
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