Defeat
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When fighters failed to
defeat
loyalist forces on their own, outside powers were compelled to intervene.
No direct link exists between that result and the dramatic Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal in New York, but in the immediate aftermath of DSK’s arrest, Italian women and young voters decisively mobilized to
defeat
Berlusconi’s party (led in Milan, ironically, by a woman).
The recent failure of the Republican-dominated Congress to repeal Barack Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act, which made health care available for millions of people who previously couldn’t afford it, was a humiliating
defeat
for Trump.
Energy subsidies – so ingrained in the GCC economies – distort consumption and production patterns;
defeat
government attempts at economic diversification; and increase vulnerability to volatile international energy prices.
Putin cannot afford to return to the pre-Crimean status quo, which would be viewed domestically as a major political
defeat.
When British statesmen established Iraq as a distinct political entity after the
defeat
of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, they did so in accordance with their own imperialist interests.
The result has been utter failure: military
defeat
and a severe degradation of America’s moral standing.
Humbled by military defeat, America can recover its regional relevance only by avoiding the sin of hubris, and learning to lead without attempting to dominate.
Japan, with its US backing, would inflict a humiliating military
defeat
on China.
While commentators in Israel and around the world were still mourning or gloating over Israel’s lost military supremacy, both Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad soberly recognized that their countries had come closer to catastrophic
defeat
than in 1967, and that it was imperative to avoid another war.
Within 48 hours, Israel seemed on the verge of
defeat
on both fronts.
After all, Argentina’s hated junta collapsed just four years after the country’s World Cup triumph (following its military
defeat
by Britain).
Still, while the government may have suffered one major public defeat, the PiS’s underlying ideological illiberalism remains intact.
And, though this will likely be reported as a
defeat
for China, it should not be.
One of Turkey’s main objectives in Syria is to
defeat
the Islamic State, which has launched numerous terrorist attacks on Turkish soil.
Merkel would cause outrage among her conservative voters (as well as court
defeat
at the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe) should she agree to a more free-spending policy, including any direct financial assistance for Greece.
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.
Britain’s Norway SolutionLONDON – Shortly after UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call an unexpected “Brexit election,” I wrote that pro-Europeans in Britain might yet snatch victory from the jaws of
defeat.
Far from attempting to
defeat
its enemies, the United Kingdom is attempting to preserve mutually beneficial relationships with countries from which it cannot distance itself geographically – and from which it can’t afford to distance itself otherwise.
These principles, agreed upon by the most important foreign players in Syria’s war, include a commitment to secular governance, the eventual
defeat
of the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups, the maintenance of Syria’s prewar borders, the preservation of its state institutions, and the protection of minority groups.
Rather than admit defeat, US officials are resorting to diversionary rhetoric.
To “make Poland great again,” the nation’s heroes must
defeat
its traitors, who are not equal contenders for power.
Opposing migration contradicts their ideals, while supporting it means electoral
defeat.
The Dayton agreement represented not so much the
defeat
of their plans as the international legitimation of their division of Bosnia, with Bosnian Muslim enclaves left in a nervous see-saw with Tudjman's vicious Hercegovinian minions.
Yet Mousavi’s
defeat
by the hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in what looked like a rigged electoral process, was greeted by some neo-conservatives in the US with relief.
Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western “imperialism” and Israel, saluted Mousavi’s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, “the [anti-Zionist] resistance cannot afford a pro-American velvet revolution.”
The end of polio should mark not just the
defeat
of a terrible disease, but also the beginning of a new phase in the effort to reduce childhood suffering and death, the benefits of which will be felt for generations to come.
They also rely on what Clark McCauley and others have called “jujitsu politics,” in which a smaller fighter uses the strength of the larger opponent to
defeat
him.
The Varieties of Populist ExperienceLONDON – Emmanuel Macron’s decisive
defeat
of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential runoff was a major victory for liberal Europe.
European fascism collapsed with the
defeat
of Germany in 1945, but less aggressive forms lived on elsewhere, such as Argentina with its Peronism.
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