Sentence examples for defeat of the program from inspiring English sources

The defeat of the program, which was to be the catalyst for major transit and environmental improvements, is a crushing blow for Mr. Bloomberg, and threatens to leave him with little legacy beyond ending indoor smoking.

They were alleged to be particularly active in the then paramount Communist Party objective, namely, defeat of the preparedness program".

After having served as minister of agriculture (1951) and of the interior (1953), he formed his own cabinet in January 1954; it fell with the defeat of its program at the end of the month.

This will not only defeat the objective of the program but also lead to morbidity and mortality.

Any ceilings set too low could persuade some families to take their cases to court, thus defeating the purpose of the program.

While New Jersey drivers prepare to slow to a crawl when using their E-ZPass cards at state-highway tolls, critics of the system are revving up protests that new guidelines that go into effect tomorrow are defeating the purpose of the program.

It totally defeats the purpose of the program.

The immediate objective is the defeat of the compulsory health insurance program pending in Congress.

Dream season: The Aggies, after losing a heartbreaker at U.N.L.V. and getting creamed by Oregon at Autzen Stadium, turn around the direction of the program by defeating Utah, Idaho, and B.Y.U. in consecutive weeks.

Thereafter, most manufacturers of personal computers licensed MS-DOS as their operating system, generating vast revenues for Microsoft; by the early 1990s it had sold more than 100 million copies of the program and defeated rival operating systems such as CP/M, which it displaced in the early 1980s, and later IBM OS/2.

1937 Senate Blocks Court Reform WASHINGTON — By a vote of ten to eight the Senate Judiciary Committee today [May 18] rejected President Roosevelt's judiciary reform program and made the defeat of the most controversial legislative issue of modern times sweeping by throwing out the multitude of compromise plans intended to soften the blow which the President had aimed at the "nine old men".