9 sentences with 'defeat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defeat and other words derived from it.
• « Dr. Epstein's refusal to accept defeat and his willingness to take calculated risks were what allowed him, in the early 1980s, to open new horizons for pediatric neurosurgery. »
• « With scarce forces but with great audacity and skill, Fernandez de Cordoba managed to defeat the enemy. »
• « The two main areas that a man had to master were, therefore, war and rhetoric: the ability to defeat enemies in battle and the ability to persuade potential allies in the political arena. »
• « Despite the final defeat of the Spartan force, this delay gave the Athenians enough time to get their navy into position, and they crushed the Persian navy in a single day. »
• « After the defeat of the Persians, the Athenians created the Delian League, in theory a defensive coalition that existed to defend against Persia and to liberate the Ionian colonies that were still under Persian control, but in reality a political instrument that Athens eventually used to create its own empire. »
• « The Romans wavered in this strategy, suffering the terrible defeat mentioned above in 216 BC, but as Hannibal's victories grew and some cities in Italy and Sicily began to defect to the Carthaginian side, they returned to it. »
• « In 201 BC, after the defeat of the Carthaginians, Rome sent an army against Philip to defend Greek independence and to take revenge. »
• « There, Philip and the king of the Seleucid empire (called Antiochus III) had agreed to divide the eastern Mediterranean, assuming that they could defeat and control the entire Greek polis. »
• « The last Severan emperor, Severus Alexander, died in 235 CE, ushering in a terrible period of military defeat and instability that is considered in the next chapter. »