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The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so-called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.
I want to repeat that part: The Lakota defeat the US army.
And they were not able to defeat all social injustice.
But let's face it, when you've watched it once maybe, or twice, you don't really want to watch it again, because you know how Jack Bauer is going to defeat the terrorists.
And when they finally hand you heartache, when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.
You exaggerate your fears, and you're terrified about the humiliation of defeat.
In fact, I believe, given more knowledge of the complex evolutionary processes that drive cancer's growth, we can defeat cancer.
My personal aim is to defeat the Tasmanian devil cancer.
The only way we can defeat this pandemic is when we ensure that we win this final battle.
The global health community working together defeated Ebola, and that ... that is how I know that we can defeat its aftermath in our hearts, in our minds and in our communities.
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.
And this is the great pleasure of science: the defeat of our intuition through experimentation.
That was the day of his defeat.
And if we defeat these, as I hope we do, more is coming.
And so my journey now is to find some sort of grace in the face of this defeat.
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.
Defeat would have come too easily.
How do you defeat death without killing off life?
I hope you're willing to come with me on this, but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to defeat death is if you're anti-death, which to me translates as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature, it also translates to me as anti-woman, because women have long been identified with nature.
Courage, according to Churchill, is the ability to go from one defeat to another without losing enthusiasm.
So all these factors, and many more besides, we don't even fully understand some of them yet, these came together to defeat a monstrosity as big as bin Ladenism, the global jihad, you needed this group effort.
Use your magic slippers to defeat the computer-generated armies of the Wicked Witch."
Are they absorbing the story that a male hero's job is to defeat the villain with violence and then collect the reward, which is a woman who has no friends and doesn't speak?
Second, the Peruvian economy began to experience a steady growth after the defeat of the Shining Path.
So according to Indyk, and these are his words, the Iranians had an interest to do us in on the peace process in order to defeat our policy of containment.
To defeat our policy of containment, not about ideology.
In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce, no draw, no compromise, only victory or defeat.
Our main effort was inside Iraq, and our specified mission was to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq.
There was dignity in defeat.
Well, it seems to me that this Hungarian presence in my life is difficult to account for, but ultimately I ascribe it to an admiration for people with a complex moral awareness, with a heritage of guilt and defeat matched by defiance and bravado.
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