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.

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.

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.

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.

The Serbs suffered defeat in the Battle of Kosovo.

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.

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

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.

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.

They have to be defeated.

Holmes accepted defeat with his customary grace.

Tin political ears deserve defeat.

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.

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.

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

After centuries of isolation, Japan s Meiji restoration chose selectively from the rest of the world, and within 50 years the country had become strong enough to defeat a European great power, in the Russo Japanese War.

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

Kibaki has responded harshly to Mungiki, waging a war on terror style campaign to defeat it, which has lead to thousands of deaths, according to Kenyan human rights groups.

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

Syrian revolutionaries have been successful in defeating them in the past and they could do so again.

Meanwhile, news of Germany's impending military defeat spread throughout the German armed forces.

Early in a series of battles, including a final decisive defeat at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

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

When the Dutch had their revenge in 1988 and beat Germany to go on to become European champions, more people danced in the streets in Holland than on the day that the real war ended in May 1945.

The third generation arose from tactics developed by the Germans to break the stalemate of trench warfare in 1918, which Germany perfected in the Blitzkrieg tactics that allowed it to defeat larger French and British tank forces in the conquest of France in 1940.

It was clear to him that Israel was a nuclear power that, in October 1973, had once again proven itself to be unbeatable in a conventional war a war Sadat himself had never expected to win when he launched it.

A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.

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

But of course, my grandmother was right to equate defeat with liberation.

The result has been utter failure military defeat and a severe degradation of America s moral standing.

Only a strong leader, de Gaulle thought, could have avoided defeat.

When fighters failed to defeat loyalist forces on their own, outside powers were compelled to intervene.

In football, defeat is never definitive, but it is always passionate.

To take drugs will usually be self defeating.

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

This is reminiscent of an army that, fearing defeat on the battlefield, poisons the wells as it retreats.

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

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.

Faithless and wavering, it has been defeated by the unswerving conviction of the right.

Yet they cannot be defeated without the active support of the local population.