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Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
He asks whether the resisters were driven by genuine dislike of Hitler and his ideas, or whether they decided that Hitler was superfluous only after his string of victories turned into a string of defeats.
There is no irony of statement intended here, yet the sentence neatly defeats its purpose.
No defeats are recorded, naturally, although a few of the victories are debatable.
In the late 1990s, these extremist groups suffered major defeats by Kurdish forces.