Defeat: physically block access and movement or block/obscure the information that offenders want to collect.
Thus, the situation is eerily reminiscent of some 90 years ago, when Republican Senators -- eager to hand President Woodrow Wilson a foreign policy defeat -- blocked U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, thus paving the way for World War II.
As the week began, three Democrats who had voted against the measure two years ago publicly announced they would support it, effectively depriving Republican lawmakers of any bipartisan cover for defeating or blocking the bill.
Before the first vote on Monday, Attorney General Janet Reno had pressed lawmakers to defeat the measure blocking the transfer.
Results showed that the pointed ogival head projectile had the lowest ballistic limit, whereas the blunt flat head projectile required the highest ballistic energy to defeat the sand block.
If, when the ball was snapped, he saw the guard coming at him, Sapp used his aggressiveness to defeat that reach block to cover his gap.
Mr. McConnell lays out the party message in daily speeches on the Senate floor, while working to keep his conference unified in an effort to block, defeat or reshape the Democrats' legislation using a formidable arsenal of procedural tactics.
Mr. Flake met similar defeat trying to block $50,000 for the National Mule and Packers Museum in Bishop, Calif.; $150,000 for the Burpee Museum of natural history in Rockford, Ill.; $250,000 for the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Prosser, Wash.; and $750,000 for the Alliance for NanoHealth in Houston.
He said the building blocks to defeat Isis are already in place.
Wider cracks completely defeat the beneficial CMAS blocking behavior of GZO.
