After a battle, they hunt down the losers with their spears.

If the loser smiled the winner will lose the thrill of victory.

Then they mistook us for the defeated side and forced us to bury the dead.

The defeated candidate gave up power and made way for Ghana to move into a new democratic cycle.

The defeated candidate, Viktor Yanukovich, contests the result. The country is deeply divided.

Declaring that no quarter will be given, threats to this effect or conduct of military actions on this basis

Thatcher was brave and resolute, but she was not magnanimous. She won famous victories, but showed no generosity to the defeated, in word or deed.

The Bonn Conference of December 2001, which was called to draft a new Afghan constitution, excluded the vanquished.

Many Hindus claim that the Babri Masjid stood on the precise spot of Ram s birth and had been placed there by Babur to remind a conquered people of their subjugation.

Moreover, in the absence of an impartial judge, a winner can always impose his truth upon the vanquished, as happened with the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.

As the crisis over Mexico s disputed presidential election continues, questions are being raised not only about the conduct of the seemingly defeated candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but also about Mexico s presidential system.

It was a mockery of humankind that Japan was attempting to occupy a permanent seat on the Security Council, given that it was a war criminal that had massacred millions of Asian people and was the only defeated country that had not faced up to its war crimes.

And, by mortgaging his entire Middle East policy to the concept of an ideological confrontation against the forces of evil, Bush is putting his entire strategy on the weary shoulders of a defeated Palestinian president without really providing him with the necessary tools.

In a post conflict settlement in which the party defeated could not be considered to be an imminent threat to peace and security, the Security Council has, following resolution 687 (1991), imposed de facto treaty obligations on States without their consent.

Thatcher was brave and resolute, but she was not magnanimous. She won famous victories, but showed no generosity to the defeated, in word or deed.

The giving of an order to a subordinate by a superior or official in time of armed conflict that no quarter must be given, or any other knowingly criminal order or instruction, directed towards the commission of the offences referred to in articles 134, 135 and 136 of this Code

Someone once rightly said that it is easy to bomb, but much harder to build it is relatively easy to defeat a regime militarily, but it is far more difficult to create a solid, sustainable, civil society in its place.