There is still a chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Flags are flown in hope of victory, but also serve to dry the tears of defeat.

As in real life, fans can be torn between their hopes for victory and their fear of defeat.

But, then, this is the Middle East, where earlier breakthroughs grew out of defeat, not victory.

They told him of a great hero called Achilles, who, when he participated in battle, victory was assured, but when he withdrew from the battle, defeat was inevitable.

And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.

Even after the defeat, Fatah implemented not a single reform or leadership change.

Either way, victory is not around the corner.

Democratic transitions throughout the hemisphere had made guerrilla warfare unjustifiable as Che foretold in his La Guerra de Guerrillas in 1962, wherever the trappings (or, one might add, the realities) of democratic rule prevailed, taking up arms was pointless.

In face of economic failure or military defeat, their emperors turn out to be naked.

Can NATO survive defeat in Afghanistan? The question is far from abstract.

They have to be defeated.

Holmes accepted defeat with his customary grace.

Tin political ears deserve defeat.

During the Cuban missile crisis, he did not try to humiliate or win a total victory over the Soviet Union.

If the Muslim Brotherhood denied a ballot, or refused to accept defeat, tougher measures could then have been contemplated.

The Serbs suffered defeat in the Battle of Kosovo.

Its weaknesses existed in victory, too, but were overlooked.

The extremists also peddle the appealing fantasy that total victory is somehow possible, often by personalizing the battle.

It would be hard for Americans, who are neither very good at soccer, nor cursed by great historical hatreds, to share the joy of the Dutch, say, when the Germans were defeated in 1988, or that of the Koreans when they defeat Japan.

The Palestinian Arab defeat in this endeavor, and the resulting refugee problem, is a defining moment for Palestinians.

YazanHomsY Yazan Homsy, son of the great Homs, activist in the Syrian revolution, from Khalidya neighborhood.

We chose nonviolence not from cowardice or weakness, but out of moral conviction we don t want to reach victory by having destroyed the country.

In our case, neither the apartheid government nor the liberation movements could defeat each other.

He loved to win.

This is your victory.

Onward to victory!

It has shown that it can defeat Georgia s army.

Following Brazil's humiliating defeat, Egyptian kazakhelo jokes to his 13.6k followers on Twitter

This is powerful stuff, and dwarfs the narrow technocratic instincts of Mrs. Clinton, whose schoolgirl approach to the campaign has justly earned her defeat after defeat in the primaries.

But these criticisms reflect an inability to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.

Next comes heroic triumph.

But Mrs Megawati has just been defeated in her bid for reelection. Will newly elected President Susilo continue to prosecute journalists?

During the Napoleonic Wars, most of its engagements with the British ended in defeat.

They achieved only three successes Cuba, in 1959 Nicaragua, in 1979 and El Salvador, where, by 1992, they fought the US and the local army to a stalemate, bringing peace and growing prosperity to their country. Everywhere else, for whatever reason misguided strategies, tactical mistakes, erroneous theories, US intervention, etc. they faced only defeat, repression, and futility.

Egypt s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.

Yet this is likely to have little or no effect on Sharon's intention to carry through with the plan.

To take drugs will usually be self defeating.

Twitter users used the hashtag BrasilEliminado ( BrazilOut) to weigh in on the defeat.

Following the Arab defeat in 1967, Jordan became a hotbed of Palestinian activity.

To defeat the terrorists we must offer a vision of a more just and equitable world and act accordingly, at home and abroad.

The person would be buried alone, on the outskirts of the city, without a headstone or marker, however, it was deemed to be an acceptable method to deal with military defeat.

Singh stood his ground and achieved victory.

To those who would tear the world down we will defeat you.

Peace came about only with the total and unconditional defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.