Sentence examples for and defeat in a from inspiring English sources

Both parties have realized that election administration rules can make the difference between victory and defeat in a close election.

By concentrating on raw power, especially air power, to the exclusion of politics and culture, the Bush administration has courted disaster and defeat in a region it never took the trouble to understand.

When the Jack gave $70K to the speaker, it was in the heat of battle when those bucks made the difference between victory and defeat in a number of races — like the speaker won't shift money to hotly contested races when he feels safe.

While Ohio voters in general are not very pleased with Obama –- he has a 46percentt approval rating and a 49percentt disapproval rating in the state -– if Democrats can drive up Romney's negatives so high that he is an unsuitable alternative to Obama, then that could be the difference between victory and defeat in a state that could decide the election.

Measures to simplify German spelling were rejected by newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine, and defeated in a referendum in Schleswig-Holstein (though later endorsed by its legislature).

Instead the damage was the result of a very Canadian coup: Harper's government was trapped by parliamentary procedure and defeated in a confidence motion.

Yet Katharine gets crucified at the end of the movie, dumped, fired and defeated in a way that Weaver admits she finds vaguely shocking.

In the winter of 1931 32 Culbertson and his wife, Josephine Culbertson, played and defeated in a 150-rubber match one of the most prominent players among the former auction bridge authorities, Sidney S. Lenz.

All of them originated in the 1853 constitutional convention, whose proposals, although popular, were poorly organized and defeated in a popular referendum.

In May 1954, after eight years of fighting, the French were surrounded and defeated in a mountainous northern fortress at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

A thousand tiny victories and defeats in an ordinary conversation.