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Next came three more beastly foes, each requiring a clever strategy to defeat.
Then, in the aftermath of a crushing naval defeat for Athens in 411 BC, Aristophanes wrote "Lysistrata."
Other generations had to build a fresh society after slavery, pull through a depression, defeat fascism, freedom-ride in Mississippi.
There has never yet been a drug they could not defeat.
So we need to understand these groups; we need to either engage them or defeat them in any conflict resolution process that has to be successful.
We cannot understand these groups, let alone defeat them, if we don't have the full picture.
And in the tales of the ineffectual anti-hero, in the stories of Guy Montag and Winston Smith, lie the warnings of contemporary storytellers playing on very primitive fears: that we are not strong enough to defeat the monsters.
Besides voting, chances are that some time in your life you'll be called upon to participate in your government, whether it is to serve on a jury, testify in court, or petition your Congress person to pass or defeat an idea for a law.
It was a moment of defeat.
The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic, social, and physical hurdles.
And we're now directing our superweapon toward its defeat.
Your adrenaline is elevated, and your actions are stemming from these deeply ingrained reflexes, reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy.
And just like we got back on our tubes, we can't let our platforms for interconnectivity and community be the places that we settle for defeat.
Even if a nation loses a war, we say, "Germany suffered a defeat in the First World War," it's a metaphor.
I am now investigating how these pathways to victory and defeat repeat across time.
Audience: Since you've been talking about aging and trying to defeat it, why is it that you make yourself appear like an old man?
Instead his broken body lies in pieces, his arm clutching a splintered sword in a signal of utmost defeat.
And when I flew away from Japan and started playing singles again with my English archrival, I noticed that after every defeat, I was really brokenhearted.
They don't want to fight us like real men, but they're afraid to fight, so we just have to kill a few of their soldiers to defeat them."
Now, this seemed to be a way for France to defeat Germany the next time they fought.
They told him of a great hero called Achilles, who, when he participated in battle, victory was assured, but when he withdrew from the battle, defeat was inevitable.
He invited all the princes to come and defeat his daughter at whistling.
But nobody could defeat the princess.
That might be someone who is a remorseless killer, but a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat, which is in fact what Chechen culture prescribes for someone in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's situation.
When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes.
We don't really care about the end of the cold war and the defeat of the Soviet Union (which happened in spite of Reagan, not as a result of) by a well financed group of people who were extremely willing to fight.
Finally I could not believe the complete omission of the 1763 Battle of Bushy Run that started as a re-run of Braddock's defeat but ended up as the victory that decided the outcome of Pontiac's War thanks to the wiles of the same Colonel Bouquet who certainly must rank as one of the most successful British commanders of this war.
Obviously shot for television or STV, this amateurish rehash KRULL has several stock characters -- a magician, an assassin, a warrior, a scientist -- on the trail of something or other in order to defeat the Dark Forces about to be unleashed on their planet.
Full of awful racist Jap talk and jokes, this East End Kids story details how the kids want to join the military to defeat the Japs.
He is determined to defeat the garbage nappers of the world, it seems.
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