Even Hanoi's military defeat would not have ended such a war once and for all.

It continues to sell military defeat in Kosovo as victory.

The military defeat of the young state led to a pagan revolt that took place between 1031 and 1032.

But Hitler came to power in a country which had been impoverished by a military defeat.

The Japanese could hardly be expected to back a memorial on the site of their last great military defeat.

Soviet leaders before Gorbachev also would probably have used nuclear weapons if they had faced military defeat.

Its military defeat didn't finish it, just made the separate worlds accessible to us.

The military defeat of Taylor appeared increasingly to be the only option for an end to the conflict.

Within a few days the military defeat of the Ebert government had turned into a political victory.

From its very beginning the republic was afflicted with the stigma of the military defeat.