When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

When the Consul Gaius Flaminius was killed during the disastrous Roman defeat at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, panic swept Rome.

When word reached Rome of the disastrous Roman defeat under Varro and Paullus at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate and the People of Rome turned to Fabius for guidance.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

When Charleston was captured by the British in 1780, Middleton accepted defeat and status as a British subject.

When the Tughlaq dynasty replaced the Khilji dynasty in 1320 AD, Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq sent his commander Ulugh Khan in 1323 to defeat the Kakatiya king Prataparudra.

When the Balkan front was secured, Murad II turned east to defeat Timur's son, Shah Rokh, and the emirates of Karamanid and Çorum-Amasya.

When the Klingon forces suffer a crushing defeat, Worf agrees to Nero's demand to board a shuttle and come on board the Narada.

When Thing said he was " just too stupid and ugly to give up ," the Champion replied he could never defeat Thing.

When first introduced he was more than willing to annihilate the entire population on Earth unless a fighter would defeat him limited to boxing rules.

When a BBC reporter asked Powell to explain his defeat, he replied: " My opponent polled more votes than me ".

When the northern Italian cities inflicted a defeat on Frederick at Alessandria in 1175, the European world was shocked that such a thing could happen.

When Frederick returned to Germany after his defeat in northern Italy, he was a bitter and exhausted man.

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

When Wim Jansen was appointed as the interim manager to replace Günder Bengtsson and Pim Verbeek after a 6 – 0 defeat against PSV, the outlook began to improve for the club.

When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated — a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots ' had fled wretchedly and ignominiously '— but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.

When the ruling SPS refused to accept its defeat in municipal elections in 1996, Serbians engaged in large protests against the government.

When voting on the 1995 referendum about Quebec independence ended with its defeat, Jacques Parizeau attributed the loss to " money and the ethnic vote.

When a new election was called, Clark expected his party would be able to defeat the demoralized and leaderless Liberals easily, since Trudeau had announced his intention to step aside.

When the Republic of China government was relocated to Taipei in 1949 as a result of the Kuomintang's ( KMT ) defeat by the Chinese Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the provincial administration remained in place under the claim that the ROC was still the government of all of China even though the opposition argued that it overlapped inefficiently with the national government.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.

When Peter had reached his majority at eighteen??

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

When the whole bottom has hardened, use a disk sander to feather the edges of the cloth at the keel line and near the spray rail.

When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.

When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.

When it was worn in the breast, or even on the sleeve, we at least knew where it was ''.

When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.

When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.