Sentences with phrase «ignominious defeat»

Black Turn: Operation Barbarossa 1941 Take control of the Wehrmacht and its allies in Operation Barbarossa, from the dramatic early victories all the way to ignominious defeat at the gates of Moscow.

This set France on a course in Vietnam that led to the first Vietnamese war and, after much slaughter and suffering, to the ignominious defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.

It is in regard to this set of considerations that I make sense of Paul's disorienting reversal of power and weakness in 1 Corinthians 1:17 — 25.11 There, the cross is neither God's counterintuitive triumph nor God's ignominious defeat.

A mixture of naivety and deeply - engrained sixties liberalism is probably the explanation of how the CES could «hail» as a victory rather than an ignominious defeat for the Catholic cause an amendment allowing Catholic schools to teach the Catholic view as well as the Labour secularist pro-abortion and pro-gay compulsory agenda.

Man City, on the other hand, after a brilliant first couple of games in their league campaign, suffered an ignominious defeat at home to Stoke City, before the international break.

Nevertheless we still managed an ignominious defeat at the hands of a lower division team (3 - 2), something we have managed to do consistently in our 56 attempts to win this competition.

I haven't gone back beyond 20 years when looking at FA Cup ties, because before then we did have some ignominious defeats on January 6, being knocked out by Torquay and Plymouth, and drawing against Wrexham before losing in a second replay (no penalty shoot outs in the distant past).

That means that a few recurring tips and tricks could mean the difference between narrowly squeaking by and suffering an ignominious defeat.