By taking our armistice terms, they acknowledged defeat to themselves even more than to us.

Kel was a proud man, born of an independent people who had never acknowledged defeat.

It was almost the first time the Futurernen had acknowledged defeat and made quiet surrender.

But some analysts wonder whether never acknowledging defeat makes good business sense.

The Northerners, too, were slow to acknowledge defeat, even after they knew there was no chance left of their winning.

Another man would have acknowledged defeat at this point.

Yet the only alternative was to acknowledge defeat and retrace their steps.

Throughout a life of many dangers, the key to her survival had been a total refusal to acknowledge defeat.

No matter how bad it looked, she would not acknowledge defeat until she was forced to do so.

To return to the Eyrie was to acknowledge defeat.