In the aftermath of defeat in WWII, family links provided a way for Japan and Germany to reconstruct business quickly.

Following the defeat in World War I, influence of German speaking elites over Central and Eastern Europe was greatly limited.

Immune and invincible.

Why don't you come on and get this over with?

You were waiting to get beat.

As President George W. Bush argued about the war in Iraq, US President Lyndon Johnson predicted that defeat in Vietnam would be renewed in one country and then another.

The Serbs suffered defeat in the Battle of Kosovo.

Defeat would have come too easily.

The reasons for his defeat are now matter of history

They're gonna get it tonight

Victory's better than defeat.

You exaggerate your fears, and you're terrified about the humiliation of defeat.

Despite a beautiful rebirth after the war, the moral defeat of the elite and the hesitancy of the political system remain.

This defeat prevented reinforcements reaching Hannibal from both Iberia and Africa at a critical moment of the War, when the Carthaginians held the upper hand in Italy.

Here in the wilderness you have turned defeat into victory.

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

But the difference in accepting this particular defeat is that sometimes, if cancer has won, if there's death and we have no choice, then grace and acceptance are necessary.

They have to be defeated.

Holmes accepted defeat with his customary grace.

Tin political ears deserve defeat.

His kneeling posture reflects his shame and degradation.

First defeat... then revolution.

I never learned to take defeat like a gentleman.

Then why did you let me survive the shame of my defeat?

In defeat they die with the rest.

There's something more important than not being conquered.

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.

In Germany, the old Prussian elite successfully managed the country s industrialization in the late nineteenth century, but was discredited by defeat in World War I. Nazism filled the ensuing vacuum, and a new equilibrium would be established only after World War II.

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 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.

The collapse of the Third Reich and defeat.

On no account shall I meet defeat in battle.

You can't get off so easily!

However Lithuania had been increasingly on the losing side of the Muscovite Lithuanian Wars and by the second half of the 16th century it faced the threat of total defeat in the Livonian war and incorporation into Russia.

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

And so my journey now is to find some sort of grace in the face of this defeat.

An attempt to annex East Greenland ended in defeat at the Hague Tribunal in 1933.

Invictus E Pluribus Unum.

It looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

tomorrow I intend to resign.

During the Meiji restoration of the nineteenth century, Japan scoured the world for ideas and technologies that allowed it to defeat a European great power in the Russo Japanese War of 1904.

My first reaction back then was that I wanted to be strong and face the defeat.

Our regiment got beaten in the finalslast December, but I mean to win this year.

And they were the same color as the sea, were cheerful and undefeated.