Sentence examples for defeat of key from inspiring English sources

Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, which had led the assembly for a decade, is braced for a bitter internal leadership battle after a low score and the defeat of key figures such as Claude Guéant, the hardline former interior minister and Sarkozy ally, who was running for first time, and ex-minister Nadine Morano.

In 1856 the Republican Party made the defeat of polygamy a key plank in its first national platform, characterizing it alongside slavery as one of the "twin relics of barbarism".

Back in 1997 the defeat of Michael Portillo was the key moment for Blairites.

"They are actively trying to defeat a key plank of the government's policy and obesity plan".

Even in the key home defeat of Holland they had 26% of possession.

Sonia Gandhi, president of India's Congress party, defended a string of defeats in key provincial assembly elections this week, blaming the electoral debacle on weak state party organisations and bad candidates.

Focus on issues like "cow protection" and "ghar wapsi" instead of economy resulted in the BJP's defeat in key state elections in the northern state of Bihar.

Castleford were left counting the cost of a first Super League defeat of the season after losing three key players to injury as they went down 28-22 at St Helens.

They were eager to help liberate Kirkuk, which the Kurds consider their Jerusalem — or, even better, to conquer the city of Tikrit, about a hundred miles from Baghdad, the birthplace of Saddam and a key to the defeat of the regime.

In the 1980s, indispensable Pakistan was the key to the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

NatWest was also under pressure to acknowledge defeat as key shareholders deserted it in favor of the Royal Bank takeover offer.