Moore declined to concede defeat even after Trump urged him to do so.

He disliked defeat even when it was served with jam.

Sublimation is the mark of the personality that will not admit defeat even to itself.

He had not deemed a defeat even possible.

As with individuals, so with species, accidents are all too likely to defeat even the most cautious expectations.

Or would the party have gone into a meltdown that would have made the defeat even more calamitous?

Thomas has no doubt that Henry Tudor can raise an army great enough to defeat even a York prince.

There were partial failures at first, and defeat even seemed possible, so great was the patient determination which the creative effort demanded.

Providing aid to the Afghan insurgency would drain Soviet resources, pulling in more troops and making their ultimate and inevitable defeat even more expensive politically.

That the misery is felt just across the border line must make the taste of victory even more syrupy, defeat even more bitter, Gavin Cummiskeyreports.

They led 12-7 at halftime and were just one kick away from winning the match but that only made the narrow defeat even more painful.

Defeated even when we were in a majority, we were now outnumbered.

Defeat even by the razor-thin margin of 365 votes will terrify them.

In 1806, the Prussians were essentially defeated even before the battle of Jena.

There could of course be defeats even there.

But the wordly-wise man will not seem to be defeated even where he knows he is.