Sentences with phrase «victory and defeat»

In a tight election, it could make all the difference between victory and defeat.
Winning will be fun but losing will be terrible, since they won't have learned the concept of grace in victory and defeat.
They come after victories and defeats, good performances and bad, before games and after them and any other time he happens to feel like it.
This includes past struggles, victories and defeats which have been experienced by the party, trade union movement and working classes.
During our lifetime we encounter victories and defeats, love and separation.
Each character also boasts their own victory and defeat animations after a match has been decided, which is fun to see.
But in close elections, they can mean the difference between victory and defeat.
An alternating current of victory and defeat for favorites appears to be the persistent theme of conference play as races gather momentum around the country.
These cards list things that alter victory and defeat conditions, but that must be kept secret from other players, making them eye up the insane investigator with a weary eye.
is an ideal choice for gamers who need lots of buttons, a customizable layout and even haptic feedback, all of which could help mean the difference between victory and defeat at a high level.
Choosing to practice in the arena of high - stakes corporate litigation can often lead attorneys into protracted disputes where the margin between victory and defeat stands razor - thin.
Even if they're not going to be involved in the day - to - day operations of your business, they will be involved emotionally as they observe your day - to - day business victories and defeats.
The fact that athletes instinctively use the same body language shows us how innately programmed we are to nonverbally broadcast victory and defeat.
Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.
The U.S. failure in Vietnam led low - intensity - conflict planners to redefine victory and defeat.
Monty, making the rounds in the Boston area ahead of this week's U.S. Senior Open, regaled a group of golfers at Renaissance Golf Club on the eve of his early - morning tee time at nearby Salem Country Club and had them rolling in the aisles with tales of the over-50 set and Ryder Cup victories and defeats.
And yet it remains tactically sound, firmly placing victory and defeat in the hands of players with only minimal luck involved.
Friends, like brothers until the end, are the cornerstone of good fun in Gears of War 4 as you laugh in victory and defeat together.
On a 550 - meter - long, ten - meter - high section of the Tiber embankment wall between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini, eighty figures, pulled by power washing from the grime on the walls, depict Rome's greatest victories and defeats from mythological times to the present.
As icons of the qualities assigned to the holder, the historical depiction of the chariot in hunting scenes demonstrated the power of an individual through the creation of visual forms of their power: images of hunting and military violence; embodying victory and defeat in harmonious relief.
Some disagreements are resolvable only by agreements to disagree or acceptance of the provisional nature of victories and defeats.
However, the SteelSeries Rival 500 is an ideal choice for gamers who need lots of buttons, a customizable layout and even haptic feedback, all of which could help mean the difference between victory and defeat at a high level.
You can check the info of the battlefield (player information), current status (victory and defeat conditions), warrior info (check stats, combos, weapon skills etc. for each warrior), view tutorials and change your game settings.
In victory and defeat, they witnessed his great strength of character, his high sense of duty, his humility and selflessness.
We know a thousand items about the day or yesterday, we learn the events and troubles and heartbreaks of a hundred peoples, the policies and pretensions of a dozen capitals, the victories and defeats of causes, armies, athletic teams.
But we all need somewhere to say the private things, the vulnerable things, the scary and true things, the victories and the defeats.
After felicitously noting that for Soloveitchik «victory and defeat are of equal value,» he succumbs to the natural pull of a more one - sided, hierarchical position, writing that the motion of submissive retreat «is inherently endowed with holiness,» while «the act of advance is not in itself holy,» and so must be «imbued with this quality through the willingness to accept defeat.»
«Man must know how to live with the tension between victory and defeat, advance and retreat, with no assurance of how it will ultimately end.»
It is only through the complementary presence of the other that both victory and defeat contribute to the formation of a wholesome religious personality.
When childraising responsibilities have been completed, for a husband and a wife to be able to grow old together in mutual trust and love, cherishing memories of the joys and sorrows, the victories and defeats that have bound them closely together — surely, that is an ideal to be sought, a vision not to be relinquished, a goal worth the striving.
How confident are we that a «limited» strike can be calibrated so as to deter the use of chemical weapons if Assad believes they might make the difference between victory and defeat.
Vonn, snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis and skier Julia Mancuso have made as many headlines in these Games, in victory and defeat, as male stars like short - track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno, figure skater Johnny Weir and snowboarder Shaun White.
Rose is more likeable than JJ on many levels, but so are many other fighters like Claudia, Jessica, Karolina, Tecia, and Valentina etc. who also represent WMMA with dignity in victory and defeat.
In football there are victories and defeats.
The young England keeper has often been the difference between victory and defeat this season.
«I think a big challenge for some parents is letting their child experience the ups and downs of victory and defeat and the lessons they can learn from those experiences,» she says.
I want to apply the lessons I've learnt in victory and defeat to the urgent challenge of this Age of Unreason.»
The STATE of POLITICS blog is a running statewide conversation about NY politics - the debate and the drama, the victories and defeats.
But conversation again centred around turnout and, convinced that the UKIP voters had defected en masse to the Tories, Phil spoke worriedly about having to write two speeches for the count: one each for victory and defeat.
The deficit declaration may be dismissed as unwisely late by critics (my own doubts focus on the lack of ambition of shoestring socialism) yet it deflects Tory attacks in an election where 1 % this way or that might be the difference between victory and defeat.
Instead of trying to win back control of a few measly local authorities by deploying their party leader in counties like Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, the main party of opposition is targeting winnable marginals which could make the difference between victory and defeat in 2015.
«Obviously he knew both victory and defeat and obviously people will remember the defeat as Labour leader, but above all he was an idealist, someone who was in politics for the right reasons and someone who wrote and spoke beautifully.»
Simms is a Cambridge historian whose books include Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy and a short masterpiece, The Longest Afternoon which describes the role of Wellington's non-Prussian German soldiers at Waterloo.
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