1.   After two weeks of disastrous battlefield defeats, Bosnian Serb forces appeared to stiffen their defenses Thursday, fending off Croatian and Muslim attacks along crucial battle lines.

2.   He is driven by a memory, a past horror that has sustained his career as a guerrilla through endless battlefield defeats and even his own severe wounding.

3.   Agha said the Taliban were not a spent force and would defend the provinces they still control after a week of sweeping battlefield defeats and retreats across Afghanistan.

4.   His dismissal followed major battlefield defeats in the war.

5.   His forces have suffered a series of battlefield defeats and it is unlikely they could mount an effective military treat against Hun Sen in the foreseeable future.

6.   Now, as the army recovers from a series of battlefield defeats, UNITA boasts of its military might.

7.   The army has suffered some resounding battlefield defeats since the war resumed, prompting angry attacks on the United Nations from the government.

8.   The Cambodian army has suffered a string of battlefield defeats this year at the hands of the Khmer Rouge rebels, who control large stretches of western Cambodia.