The pathetic attempt by Netanyahu's opponents to shift the campaign to the spiraling cost of living and prohibitive housing prices was easily defeated by that compelling message.
Twenty-three Conservotedes voted against a government resolution on the treaty, causing the government's defeat and compelling Major to call a vote of confidence to pass the treaty.
Other Democrats said they view Biden, O'Rourke and Sanders as credible and compelling contenders best equipped to defeat Trump.
But fundamentally, we have really one major strategic interest compelling active U.S. engagement - defeating ISIS.
A religious exemption from the city's ordinances, concluded the court, would defeat the city's compelling interests in enforcing the prohibition.
There have been a surplus of lopsided women's finals at the French Open of late, but this was the least compelling since 1988, when Steffi Graf defeated Natasha Zvereva, a Belarussian who then represented the Soviet Union, 6-0, 6-0.
The culture of defeat, in Mr. Schivelbusch's compelling account, is dizzying.
England's massive win was the result of a team performance as compelling as that which brought an innings defeat to Australia in Adelaide.
They, of course, were Manchester United, to whom his Newcastle United team were about to concede defeat in perhaps the most compelling title race in the Premiership's ten-year history.
Meanwhile, the Miami Hurricanes, who defeated Syracuse, made an equally compelling argument for playing in the national championship game.
