The war ended with a humiliating defeat for Britain.

Some might see this as a defeat for Israel.

With the defeat in Kosovo, Milosevic was finally thwarted.

That step by step approach ground to a halt with the defeat of the European Constitution.

What resolved the situation was the English defeat by the Scots at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Ultimately, the Russian people will decide for themselves what constitutes a defeat.

It began on 22 January 1863 and lasted until the last insurgents were captured in 1864.

It is hard to believe that any of the allies is prepared to contemplate that kind of defeat.

Another casualty of neo conservative hubris might be the idea of spreading democracy itself.

To lose Indonesia a potential beacon of hope to all pro democracy activists in the world Muslim community would be a terrible defeat.

Nor did the Aso government s members, stupefied by their crushing electoral defeat, offer to do so.

To begin, we asked Iraqis to reflect on the fall of Saddam Was Iraq better off without him?

Compared with the strong arm tactics employed by his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderón, Colom seems resigned to defeat.

Leave aside the fact that efforts to make democracy bloom have become bloodily unstuck in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, the drive for international glory ended with a penalty shootout defeat against Peru, but football fever had already set in.

Any eurozone political leader whose primary consideration now is re election will face certain failure by meeting this historical challenge.

But what is to a large extent a defeat in practical and military terms also can be considered a political victory.

Failure in WWI led to radicalization under Adolf Hitler, which ended in total defeat and Germany s partition.

Cooperation with the US will, by itself, increasingly become a disqualification for Iraqi political leaders seeking real support within their own communities.

It is a great victory for business executives, but a huge defeat for the principles that should guide capitalism.

Palestine s promotion is an alarming diplomatic defeat for Israel and a demonstration of its growing international isolation, but it does not imply a return to a two state solution.

With the defeat of his ideologically inspired foreign policy, Bush has finally decided not to remain blind to the benefits of engaging Syria and Iran. However isolated within the Arab family the Syrians may be, and however embattled their Iranian allies are, the two countries hold the keys to Middle East stability.

With the defeat of his ideologically inspired foreign policy, Bush has finally decided not to remain blind to the benefits of engaging Syria and Iran.

Both parties fared poorly in the election in July of a new General National Congress, with only Qaid winning a seat. Indeed, the GNC elections were in many ways a defeat for Libya s non violent Salafi parties(such as Al Asala), as well as for the post jihadists.

Instead, it is a full blown defeat for Germany, linked to its firm denial that German policy has sharply reduced the country s influence in the EU.

Indeed, the GNC elections were in many ways a defeat for Libya s non violent Salafi parties(such as Al Asala), as well as for the post jihadists.

Putin cannot afford to return to the pre Crimean status quo, which would be viewed domestically as a major political defeat.

There can no longer be any doubt that the occupation of Iraq was a huge strategic defeat for the US, because it ultimately served only to strengthen Iran.

Her defeat would be theirs, too, but their resentment over losing the nomination to her is so far proving stronger than their political survival instincts.

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.

The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.

If each relative military success is accompanied by an absolute political defeat, as was the case with the recent military operations in Gaza, what is the ratio between costs and benefits?

But Fatah has not accepted defeat, while Hamas is convinced that elements within Fatah agree with Israeli and American plans to topple the Hamas government.

Following Lionel Jospin s humiliating defeat in 2002, the Socialists simply would not survive a second consecutive failure to reach the second round.

Hamas resounding success in bringing home the heroes of the Palestinian cause was a major defeat for Abbas and a significant blow to the peace process.

Defeat to Malmo and subsequent Champions League exit was swiftly followed by losing to 10 man Aberdeen, who now sit five points clear at the top of the table.

In the first game Istiqlol lost on home turf, but surprises came later with an unexpected series of victories over their better fancied rivals, which enabled the country's top team to wind up first in the so called group of death .

Tennessee State Tigers linebacker Christion Abercrombie underwent emergency surgery after suffering a head injury in Saturday's 31 27 defeat to the Vanderbilt Commodores, the Tennessean's Mike Organ reported.

William saw all this as a defeat, but in fact this arrangement was a compromise De Witt would have preferred to ignore the prince completely, but now his eventual rise to the office of supreme army commander was implicit.

When it does, it will be a major defeat for Iran, not only entailing the loss of its main Arab ally, but also jeopardizing the position of its client, Hezbollah, in Lebanon.

From here, on October 12, 1806, the French Emperor purposely sent an arrogant and threatening letter to King Frederick William III of Prussia a letter that enticed Prussia to war and a crushing defeat at the Battle of Jena a few days later.

They brought him to power, albeit not in a way that conforms precisely with democratic norms they supported him, even when he led them into genocidal crimes and to defeat after defeat.

With the defeat of Scotland s independence movement not to mention Québécois voters stunning rejection of the province s largest separatist party in last April s election that hope may be waning.

Germany was destabilized by defeat in World War I, a harsh peace in 1919, hyperinflation in the 1920's, and the Great Depression of the 1930's, but was otherwise not uniquely barbarous.

For Russia, regime change in Syria its last military outpost in the region would be another bitter defeat for Iran, it would mean losing its most important ally in the Arab world, implying even deeper isolation.