Sentence examples for and defeated by a from inspiring English sources

That could have been doubled and defeated by a trick, but North had reason to persevere in spades.

Studies in rats have shown that social defeat stress, in which experimental animals are attacked and defeated by a dominant conspecific, is followed by an acute increase in NREM sleep EEG slow wave activity (SWA).

While besieging Nineveh, he was attacked and defeated by a great army of Scythians, who then ruled Media (653 625) until their chiefs were slain by Cyaxares at a banquet.

More commonly, they have accepted forms of what we might call "weak internalism," which allows that even though, necessarily, the person who makes a sincere moral judgment will feel some motivation to comply with it, that motivation can be overridden by conflicting desires and defeated by a variety of mental maladies, such as depression and weakness of will.

They were then put to the Sri Lankan people in an election -- and defeated by a landslide.

An institution that was embedded into human culture, endorsed by the Bible, promoted by the Qur'an, pervasive in society, and embedded in the global economy was taken on and defeated by a movement started by a tiny number of people.

The invading force was met and defeated by an army from Wessex and Mercia led by King Æthelstan at the Battle of Brunanburh.

That night, as the transports unloaded, the Allied warships screening the transports were surprised and defeated by an Imperial fleet of seven cruisers and one destroyer, commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa.

The 2014 defeat of Eric Cantor, Republican House Majority Leader, is evidence that no member of Congress is immune to challenge and defeat by a loud electorate.

England were outplayed in all three departments and defeated by 45 runs, a huge margin in this form of the game.

They actively opposed the Brown-Kaufman amendment to Dodd Frank, which would have imposed asset and liability limits on banks and was defeated by a 61-33 Senate vote in 2010.