11.   After several tries we were forced to accept defeat.

12.   It was to be many months before the new tsar accepted defeat in the Crimean War.

13.   JACKIE NEWTON spent a night at the camp to find out why Women Against Pit Closures refuse to accept defeat.

14.   When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat.

15.   And neither one said he would accept defeat.

16.   And in an uncharacteristically self-effacing way, Torricelli suggested that he had accepted his defeat, and was ready to move on.

17.   And, in this case, they do not accept defeat by a Muslim minority for whom there has never been great warmth in Russia.

18.   At first, Vargas accepted the defeat with restraint, congratulating his opponent and not raising a fuss when his hand was not raised.

19.   At Rutelli headquarters, center-left officials were somber, but declined to accept defeat, reminding television viewers that exit polls have been wrong in the past.

20.   Both sides have invested too much in the strike to accept defeat.