Sentence examples for and the defeat of from inspiring English sources

There was Occupy Wall Street and the defeat of anti-union legislation in Ohio.

Following a brief stay in Spain and the defeat of the Second Republic, he moved permanently to Mexico.

And the defeat of John Ashcroft against -- in his race against Mel Carnahan -- was just an unusual situation.

But then came Pearl Harbor in December 1941, followed by Stalingrad and the defeat of Rommel in North Africa.

The war strategy was the military defeat of Germany and the defeat of Germany's war potential for all eternity.

It marked the beginning of Grant's Overland Campaign, a strategy that eventually led to the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond and the defeat of the Confederacy.

Brazil's covert support of the rebels and the defeat of Bolivian forces finally convinced the Liberals to sell the territory to Brazil in the Treaty of Petrópolis (1903).

Even after the long and traumatic events of the coalition and the defeat of a few weeks ago the events around Christmas 2006 remain vivid to me.

In 1720 the assassination of Ḥusayn ʿAlī and the defeat of ʿAbdullāh at the battle of Hasanpur (southwest of Delhi) liberated Muḥammad Shah from effective Sayyid control.

With the decline of tragedy after Euripides' death in 406 bce and the defeat of Athens in 404 bce, comedy increased in popularity.

Later disputes over both trade and slave dealing led to a British campaign against Nupe and the defeat of the Fulani army at Bida in 1897.