Four straight defeats, coupled with Queen of the South's defeat against Forfar in midweek, sent them back to whence they came. |
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In defeats, small or big, much is learned but walkovers are soul-destroying. |
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I would rather be defeated then shrink from the great issues, because from such defeats we rise again with twice as much strength. |
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In this story, Mordecai defeats his adversary Haman, with Esther's advice and help. |
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The team was coming from two defeats out of three previous games and needed morale boosting in front of the second leg tonight. |
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Liverpool fans must distinguish between clusters of defeats and real decline in class. |
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It completely defeats the reason a person would choose an e-sport over a real sport. |
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The knowledge of a shared destiny energizes and sustains many of us, enervates and defeats others. |
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Those players left disillusioned by summer after summer of defeats were given a reason to give it one more shot. |
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In his two defeats, both by knockout, he lost concentration and showed that, like many big punchers, he can be rendered unconscious too easily. |
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On Good Friday, mid-table Cheltenham came to town hoping to improve on a run of five defeats in their last six games. |
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Eventually, right and might defeats spite and the psycho surgeon and his glamazon are running away. |
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The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances. |
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They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats. |
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Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency. |
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But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections. |
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The 27-year-old Ghanian has three defeats and a draw on his record from 18 fights. |
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The hero triumphs, finds himself a good woman, and defeats the forces of darkness. |
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The film captures these accumulating defeats tenderly and forgivingly, and makes each moment feel authentic and real. |
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We also ordered oversized fondant potatoes which defeats the purpose entirely. |
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For all his accomplishments and accolades, he has had some terrible moments in each of Green Bay's last three postseason defeats. |
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He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool. |
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And they plummeted to relegation on the back of five straight defeats at the end of the season, failing to hit the net in any of the last three. |
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Their defeats could be directly attributed to the lack of his fierce aggression and quiet, shrewd leadership. |
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We were a fine guerilla force, inflicting a series of defeats on the party establishments. |
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Party activists and trade unionists were going to inflict a string of defeats on the leadership on key policy areas. |
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That luck will have to hold, as City inflicted one of the biggest defeats of the season on us earlier in the season. |
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In 1783 and 1784, Tipu inflicts a series of crushing defeats on the armies of the East India Company. |
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King suggests that the imposition of fines on member states that are already struggling defeats the purpose. |
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There was a temptation to chuck it in the bin, but I suppose that defeats the idea. |
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Thirdly, such an arrangement defeats the object of the typical transaction financed by a bank. |
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A deeper read, however, suggests something more complicated, a pattern of embarrassing defeats and hollow victories. |
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Since then they have hit rock bottom with seven defeats in nine outings and their record so far this season is five defeats and two draws. |
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The loss to Tranmere was excusable, but two defeats to teams struggling to survive is very disappointing. |
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They hate orcs especially and are the reason that Rohan defeats the orcs at Helm's Deep. |
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A run of seven straight wins was followed by three defeats going into yesterday's match. |
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A couple of defeats in Scotland, he attests, and the press are on your case, putting additional pressure on a manager. |
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The Doncaster-based club has not proved to be a happy hunting ground for the Sandhill Laners with five defeats from five visits. |
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We have to make it difficult to change otherwise it defeats the object of the exercise. |
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In sundry sports, and not least in rugby, there are calamitous defeats in which even the best players go down with the ship. |
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Like other volumes in this series, it candidly mentions not only the successes, but also the failures and defeats of airpower. |
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Raised on a diet of historical bungles, betrayals and defeats, we've hardly an ounce of self-belief left. |
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The buckhorn rear sight blocked over half the ghost ring's field of view, which kind of defeats the purpose of a ghost ring. |
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After protracted verbal sparring followed by hand-to-hand combat, Harry defeats Riddle by stabbing the diary. |
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He believes it has supported him during the ups and downs of his rugby years, that it has helped put the painful defeats in perspective. |
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This ride starts with a 2,100 foot climb, the majority of which is unrideable and thus defeats the whole purpose of mountain biking. |
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Each move by the black queen defeats the threat, but also unpins the white bishop. |
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China slumped to three successive first-round defeats without scoring a goal. |
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Coming off four heavy defeats on the bounce, his charges looked lamentably short on confidence. |
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The talk was of victories and defeats, of holy war and martyrs, of betrayal and the punishments for traitors to the cause. |
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We will win victories we cannot now imagine, and live through shattering defeats. |
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The majority managed that fine balance between keeping the poetry and naturalness, which defeats so many would-be Shakespeareans. |
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Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance. |
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Hence, the two megacities in the Montreal region suffered devastating defeats. |
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And the manner of almost all those defeats was so cruelly unfortunate as to be beyond belief. |
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Yorkshire have so far suffered crushing defeats by Surrey and Somerset while Kent were thrashed by Hampshire in their last match. |
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But when it comes to the lost causes, the inevitable setbacks, the small defeats, the crowds thin out quickly. |
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It's a teleological structure, but the successful continuation of the presence of the interactive focus defers and ultimately defeats the telos. |
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They quickly need to turn draws into wins at home and start to turn defeats into draws away. |
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Why the company didn't drill and tap the new model for both standard receiver and tang sights, defeats me. |
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Brelghtmet will be still be disappointed with their lowly position as a number of their defeats have been close and could have gone either way. |
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Palace are three points adrift at the bottom on a run of five defeats, but Dowie insists the league table should be no shock. |
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Jesus is expected to come back to earth and begin his one thousand-year reign after he defeats the anti-Christ in the battle of Armageddon. |
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Of the government defeats in the division lobbies in this century, all but a handful have fallen in this category. |
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News gets better with the Perth rink on a roll with 4 wins and two defeats prior to our third last game. |
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Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season. |
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And Hartley knows they would love to gain revenge for September's back to back cup and league defeats against the Greens. |
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The league table is very tight this season, and a couple more defeats could see City in touch with the relegation stragglers. |
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If a term is a condition precedent to liability, any breach defeats liability but does not lead to a repudiation of the whole contract. |
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Naturally Earth repels the attackers and defeats them just before Mars implodes. |
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She deftly defeats those who dare challenge her with a relentless intensity. |
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The harsh reality of life is knock-backs, you have to learn to suffer defeats and disappointments. |
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At Rangers, by contrast, manager Alex McLeish seemed doomed after a series of defeats at home brought the club to its knees. |
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It also defeats all known firewalls, killing the running process, replacing the firewall icon, and allowing a stealth FTP connection. |
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Sir Clive Woodward's side were thumped 51-15 by Australia following back-to-back defeats to New Zealand. |
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Montgomery believed that an important cause of the defeats of the Eighth Army was the lack of the balanced force because there was no strong mobile arm. |
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A couple of defeats and those with a few quid on the former Dundee United striker as the first managerial casualty of the season could well be in the money. |
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The Greenbergians used to ask for at-a-glance legibility, and you could say that Boone delivers on that promise, and defeats it. |
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Chelmsford, a man of weak character and mediocre talents, marched into Zululand only to suffer one of the most humiliating defeats in British military history at Isandlwana. |
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With exhaustive detail, it patiently recreates an entire society, showing the webwork of behavior and convention that obstructs and defeats our best intentions. |
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Nothing defeats my powers of comprehension like the deliberate harm of a child. |
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On Tuesday, the Republicans suffered resounding defeats in the Presidential and senatorial arenas. |
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Her career had been marked by close defeats and valiant efforts. |
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Shaken by his early defeats, Caesar engages the aid of the Teutons and a final great battle is joined which will decide the ultimate fate of all Gaul. |
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes us step by step through the famed logic of Madhyamika, the Middle Way that defeats all extreme views of reality. |
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Military force defeats evil in comic books and at the movies. |
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Both teams were also able to avenge their defeats from the previous day, meaning that the Warriors defeated each team in the bonspiel at some point. |
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Three of the top four in the A Section must be cursing their luck, as they slumped to defeats against opposition from the wrong half of the table. |
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If they lose, women will have played decisive and outsized roles in their defeats. |
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Another defeat for the maroon and white in what has been a disappointing year for the county with a number of very narrow defeats in various grades along the way. |
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They have already had some narrow squeaks and some embarrassing defeats. |
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More witty banter ensues as the duo handily defeats the thugs. |
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Their role is to straitjacket the working class and organize defeats. |
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The title-holders are still searching for their first win, after four defeats and a draw, and already they have very little chance of holding on to the Championship pennant. |
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Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head. |
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Last October's comprehensive defeats by the Irish at both senior and under-21 levels on their own soil shows Kelly that the opposition has stepped up a gear. |
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That record also belongs to the Vikings, with 22 total postseason defeats. |
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No doubt Thompson would have considered the former Rugby Park manager a dead loss across August as he presided over four straight league defeats for the Easter Road club. |
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It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats. |
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Roman historians were much more effusive about victories than defeats. |
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After a series of embarrassing courtroom defeats, the Government has announced that Customs will now allow smokers to bring back up to 3,200 duty-free cigarettes per trip. |
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After four years on the sidelines, Austria sought another war with France to avenge its recent defeats. |
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In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats. |
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Most French soldiers that knew about the defeats, and were now joining the line, only knew of German success by hearsay. |
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This loss came as the latest in the long series of defeats and territorial loss that had begun in the 17th century. |
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It was the third time Hatton had been stopped, taking his overall record to 45 wins and 3 defeats. |
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However defeats for Golley, Morgan, Aled Greville, Tom Froom and Davies saw the Scots press home their advantage. |
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After three straight defeats and over five hours without a goal, it took a deflected shot from Welsh to end HullOs barren run on 17 minutes. |
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Along with Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano, Lewis is one of three world heavyweight champions to have retired with no unavenged defeats. |
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In our discussion of power above, it is indicated that this defeats one of the metapurposes of counseling, which is to empower the client. |
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With two defeats from the tournament Scotland finished bottom of the table. |
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It was to be 10 years, and 15 consecutive test defeats before Britain beat the Kangaroos again. |
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Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes. |
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The following season saw a poor run of results, and McAllister was sacked after a run of five defeats in a row. |
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He did lose matches in handicapped tournaments, but on level terms these four defeats were the only losses of his entire career. |
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At times, fortunately only a few of them, Maass nearly foams at the mouth in his rage, and he defeats himself when he does. |
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After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. |
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Arthur defeats Lucius in Gaul, but in his absence, his nephew Mordred seduces and marries Guinevere and seizes the throne. |
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Uther's son Arthur assumes the throne and defeats the Saxons so severely that they cease to be a threat until after his death. |
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He eventually defeats the other kings and establishes his rule over the whole island. |
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Arthur returns to Britain and defeats and kills Modredus on the river Camblam in Cornwall, but he is mortally wounded. |
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He then defeats the Picts and Scots before creating an Arthurian empire through his conquests of Ireland, Iceland and the Orkney Islands. |
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In council elections held in May 2011, the Liberal Democrats suffered heavy defeats in the Midlands, North and Scotland. |
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He attributes the major Confederate defeats in 1863 at Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge to this class conflict. |
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In a fight with the Irish, Tristan defeats Morholt, the Irish King's second, but is poisoned in the process. |
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Prussia's armies had suffered a string of defeats and lost large numbers of casualties. |
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Frederick rejected the proposal, although Prussian fortunes were at a low ebb by 1761 following defeats on several fronts. |
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But he mentions these are there because of recent defeats at Roman hands which had forced them over the river. |
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Roman attempts to reconquer Germany failed although the Romans inflicted several defeats on the Germans. |
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William, who raised another army after a series of earlier defeats, again battled the Spanish without a single victory. |
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The battles of Playa Honda in the Philippines in 1610, 1617 and 1624 resulted in defeats for the Dutch. |
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Further expansion of the empire was halted after defeats in the invasions of Japan and Vietnam. |
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Subsequent military defeats and unequal treaties with other western powers continued even after the fall of the Qing dynasty. |
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Some folktales hold that Li survived after his defeats and became a monk for the rest of his life. |
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American defeats at the Siege of Detroit and the Battle of Queenston Heights thwarted attempts to seize Upper Canada, improving British morale. |
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It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats. |
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The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats. |
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Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia. |
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In council elections held on 5 May 2011, the Liberal Democrats suffered heavy defeats in the Midlands, North and Scotland. |
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Villas-Boas, exactly a yeara M fol An Th ago next Monday, and Di Matteo, were both guillotined Following defeats by West Brom. |
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The embarrassing string of defeats increased Russian popular dissatisfaction with the inefficient and corrupt Tsarist government. |
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The actions at Cherbourg and La Hogue can only be seen as defeats, but the view of the action at Barfleur as a victory is not tenable. |
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The French, while acknowledging La Hougue and Cherbourg as defeats, prefer to claim Barfleur as a victory. |
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Further defeats followed and Steve Robinson had decided to retire after his sixth loss in a row. |
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Both of these teams were struggling at the foot of the table when these defeats happened, and Wrexham never fully recovered from them. |
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Despite a revenge victory over Newcastle United, defeats to Birmingham City, Luton Town and Manchester City sealed their fate. |
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A series of league defeats once more increased pressure on Davies who finally resigned. |
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They continue their fight and the red dragon finally defeats the white dragon. |
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Stop giving self-defeating TV interviews and accept some blame for defeats. |
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Early in the year, the Welsh forces, who had until then won several easy victories, suffered a series of defeats. |
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So when in a battle a hero defeats his rival with spear, arrow or rope, he provides high shamefulness to his rival. |
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He learned that France had suffered a series of defeats in the War of the Second Coalition. |
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Following both defeats, Cornwallis was fiercely criticized for detaching a significant portion of his army without adequate mutual support. |
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Despite the defeats in America, the British still had 30,000 troops garrisoned there, occupying New York, Charleston and Savannah. |
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Inspired by this, Bruce returned to inflict a series of defeats on the English, thus winning him more supporters and eventual victory. |
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Pressed from all sides, the Republic suffered a string of successive defeats against revitalised enemies, supported by Britain's financial help. |
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Billed as a baby MPV, the Note is fairly narrow for five people, which defeats the object although there is plenty of passenger legroom. |
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And Thomas Pink defeats Victoria's Secret in infringement lawsuit. |
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If the Associate team defeats the Test nation, then they could be added as the new Test country and granted full membership. |
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If any one of these teams defeats all three other teams, they win the Triple Crown. |
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Stade Francais are their opponents in Paris in a repeat of the 2007 final, the first of three consecutive final defeats for Clermont. |
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The 1980s and early '90s were a difficult time for Welsh rugby union when the team suffered many defeats. |
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In the 2017 Six Nations, Scotland saw a marked improvement in performance with three home wins and two away defeats. |
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Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats. |
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American frigates also inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats on the British navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe. |
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The British had suffered further defeats in North America, particularly at Fort William Henry. |
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His defeats on the battlefield brought still more opportunistic nations into the war. |
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Two years later, his young officers Octavian and Mark Antony lead a force that defeats the rebel army in the Greek city of Philippi. |
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The Taliban's early victories in 1994 were followed by a series of costly defeats. |
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We knew it would be difficult because Cowdenbeath have only had three league defeats in 10 months here. |
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There are other brands out there that pasteurise their kombucha and fill it with sugar, which defeats the purpose of the drink. |
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While Geoffrey consolidated his Norman power, Matilda suffered defeats in England. |
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The defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk ensured the gradual decline of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. |
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American frigates inflicted a series of defeats on the Royal Navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe. |
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In those three outings, which accounted for his only defeats of the season, he gave up 22 earned runs. |
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They finished fifth in the league after four narrow defeats and Kenya won the league. |
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Britain fought the Ottoman Empire, suffering defeats in the Gallipoli Campaign and in Mesopotamia, while arousing the Arabs who helped expel the Turks from their lands. |
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Even at 33 Judah is a dangerous opponent having fought Floyd Mayweather, Miguel Cotto and Kostya Tszyu, though he lost to all three among six defeats in 49 contests. |
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Over the next year the tide was turned and the Germans started to suffer a series of defeats, for example in the siege of Stalingrad and at Kursk. |
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However, Allied aid remained low because the Burma Road was closed and the Allies suffered a series of military defeats against Japan early on in the campaign. |
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Standing 6'1, the Brit's lengthand size posed problems in the defeats to Gleison Tibau and Rich Clementi, as Etim used his reach and lankiness to his advantage. |
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The defeats of the Russian Army and Navy shook up Russian confidence. |
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Aragorn defeats the Corsairs and uses their ships to transport the men of southern Gondor up the Anduin, reaching Minas Tirith just in time to turn the tide of battle. |
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Elizabethan England was not particularly successful in a military sense during the period, but it avoided major defeats and built up a powerful navy. |
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The city state suffered defeats from the navy of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Yes there would be big defeats, and yes, cages would be rattled, especially given the media's penchant for making coaches accountable and sackable at a finger-click. |
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It was not unusual for the Americans to suffer a string of defeats, only to have the British retreat because they could not occupy the captured land. |
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That realisation hit China with full force in the mid-1800s when this vast country with a huge population suffered humiliating defeats in the Opium Wars. |
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Protesilaus defeats Daunus, who had expelled him from Calabria. |
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By 917, after a succession of Danish defeats, East Anglia was incorporated into the Kingdom of England by Edward the Elder, afterwards becoming an earldom. |
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They suffered severe defeats in Canada, the West Indies, Europe and India. |
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After Aurelius Ambrosius defeats and kills Vortigern, becoming king, Britain remains in a state of war under him and his brother Uther, assisted by the wizard Merlin. |
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We have made up for previous home defeats at the hands of Fylde and Huddersfield and now in order to reverse our only other loss we have to beat Macclesfield at their place. |
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Two crucial defeats later, sack Jol and promote Meulensteen. |
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He defeats many more than twenty knights with the aid of his foster mother the Lady of the Lake, only to discover that the Copper Knight has fled. |
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With a traditionally lightweight pack, they would suffer regular defeats. |
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Aberdeen's first and only foreign manager, Ebbe Skovdahl, was appointed in 1999 and his time in charge coincided with some of the heaviest defeats in the club's history. |
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Richard knew that both Philip and his own brother John were starting to plot against him, and the morale of Saladin's army had been badly eroded by repeated defeats. |
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The vulnerability of Loyalist militias was repeatedly demonstrated in the South, where they suffered strings of defeats to their Patriot neighbors. |
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Despite the defeats, Cornwallis chose to proceed into North Carolina, gambling his success upon a large Loyalist uprising which never materialized. |
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Following these defeats, Jauhar was committed thrice by many of the wives and children of the Rajput soldiers who died in battles at Chittorgarh Fort. |
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Since a fine win over T20 North Group winners Birmingham on June 19, the Foxes have recorded seven defeats and one tie in eight outings in all competitions. |
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We know that if you go to Tottenham it could be two defeats in nine but if we play like we did against West Ham we can make sure Tottenham don't have a cake-walk. |
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By 917, after a succession of Danish defeats, East Anglia had submitted to Edward and was incorporated into the kingdom of England, afterwards becoming an earldom. |
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But two defeats on from here, will promises of support for this honourable man from the discredited Professor Smirker McKenzie count for anything? |
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The Hundred Days Offensive beginning in August proved the final straw and following this string of military defeats, German troops began to surrender in large numbers. |
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In 1759 French naval defeats at Lagos and Quiberon Bay forced them to abandon a planned invasion of Britain, which would have placed Charles on the throne. |
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The Whigs gained prominence in Parliament as the British suffered strategic defeats at Saratoga and later at Yorktown, resulting in the collapse of Lord North's ministry. |
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Defeats have become almost commonplace, the latest of which was a 5-1 drubbing against Bristol City on Tuesday night. |
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Defeats of Celtic last season and the bettering of Rangers last weekend mean they are a match for anyone on their day. |
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Defeats to City's fellow strugglers Torquay and Carlisle had seen Orient's stock fall from automatic promotion contenders to play-off chancers. |
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Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City. |
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Like Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers is a book set in the world of politics without being a political book. |
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