Word: defeat
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...These rousing displays of fortitude , however, don't necessarily suggest a positive message for women. Clinton's vow, in particular, moved Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick to ask what it means if feminism is "the inability to concede error or defeat - even in light of irrefutable, empirical evidence and in the face of spiraling support and tanking morale...
...athlete's battle against time alternates between the immediate and the protracted: one final shot before the buzzer, one last season before the legs give out. How best to handle the specter of inevitable defeat among athletes accustomed to winning is a cause for debate. We balance our admiration for those who walk away at their best (Bobby Jones, Bjorn Borg) with the affection felt for those who soldier on, joints creaking, and displaying a vulnerability to which we can unexpectedly relate (Arnold Palmer, Andre Agassi...
...Materials. Lewis' series of seven books, published in the 1950s, was widely seen as a Christian allegory, presided over by the God-lion Aslan, who dies and rises again. Pullman's trilogy, written in the 1990s, described a battle between a dictatorial deity and the rebel angels determined to defeat him. As the author told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2003, "My books are about killing...
...Tuesday's vote into political drama of the first order. Conservatives have an enormous parliamentary majority of 343 out of 577. But on Tuesday, many of them were missing, and others ready to defect to a leftist motion to reject the bill. The result: a razor-thin 136-135 defeat of the government's GMO measure. It was the first time in ten years that an opposition-led effort has defeated legislation proposed by a French government...
...flour draws them anyway. Shervington tells the gathered men, "I know you are scared of the big guns up on the hill. If the Taliban come here and fire at me, I promise I will not fire back into your village. But I also need your help to defeat the Taliban. I can't do it myself. If they come here you people should let me know, because I do not want to fire guns in here...