Sentence examples for Defeated from inspiring English sources

And yet, in the 1970s, Thistle were only narrowly defeated on a vote for Scottish League membership in their own right by Ferranti, later Meadowbank, Thistle.

Only once, in Brisbane in 1928-29, the match in which Donald Bradman made his debut and saw his side defeated by a barely comprehensible 675 runs, has Australia lost as heavily as this in terms of runs.

It won't be defeated until we unite not just in condemning the acts of terrorism, which we all do, but in fighting the poisonous propaganda that the root cause of this terrorism somehow lies with us around this table, and not with them.

It will not be defeated until our determination is as complete as theirs, our defence of freedom as absolute as their fanaticism, until our passion for the democratic way is as great as their passion for tyranny.

He believes Miliband betrayed him in the days between talks on last summer's vote over intervention in Syria and the debate in parliament that saw the government defeated.

Mr Trimble defeated South Belfast MP the Rev Martin Smyth by 457 to 348 votes, 56% to 43%, in a crunch secret ballot of the party's ruling council in the King's Hall, Belfast.

But attempts to shuffle police commanders and move morality police under the jurisdiction of his own interior ministry have been defeated by more powerful conservative forces in the establishment.

Intermittent attempts to down airplanes have been defeated, if only just.

Every canvasser is defeated by the mind-blowing ignorance of those for whom "politics" is not on their radar, unaware how their daily struggles will be fought out in distant Westminster.

Abdullah's succession as Saudi Arabia's sixth monarch resulted from his father King Abdulaziz ibn Saud's strategy of marrying the daughters and widows of defeated enemies.

Labour was defeated from the left in Scotland, where a party standing on a progressive anti-austerity platform swept the board.