Sentence examples for could have defeated from inspiring English sources

Did you notice that East could have defeated the contract?

We could have defeated the Brotherhood on our own".

If he had continued with the ace and another heart, he could have defeated the contract.

Post-mortem analysis showed that East could have defeated the game by an unusual play.

In the process he may have sapped them of the verve that could have defeated Algeria.

Few, if any, tennis fans believe that King could have defeated Jimmy Connors or Arthur Ashe.

It's hard to see, e.g., how anything but war could've defeated the Nazis.

How could East have defeated the contract?

How could West have defeated the contract?

That left this position (see Diagram 1):   How could West have defeated the contract?

General Washington acknowledged he couldn't have defeated the British without it.