Sentence examples for defeat plans from inspiring English sources

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who was deeply frustrated by the earlier plan's defeat, plans to trumpet the revived effort in his State of the City speech, which he is scheduled to deliver in the Bronx on Thursday.

Mr. Silverman said he planned to be at the March 8 meeting and indicated that he might try to defeat plans to debate his case in executive session, closed to the public.

The river Thames has a way of defeating plans for its jollification.

A few years ago, CPRE Hampshire and other campaigners defeated plans for a major container port at Dibden Bay, an internationally important wildlife site.

Most are in Manhattan, where open space is rarest, but there are exceptions, like Cobble Hill Park, on Verandah Place in Brooklyn, a 0.585-acre 0.585-acre a neighborhood petition drive in the 1960sitefeated plans for an apartment building.

Meanwhile, over the last 20 years, environmentalists and animal welfare groups have banned mountain lion hunting, outlawed steel leg-hold traps, established the nation's largest network of "no fishing zones" off the coast and defeated plans to expand black bear hunting — all over the objections of hunting and fishing groups who once dominated state wildlife policy.

Like other towns where an outraged public defeated plans for new plants, Clinton, she hoped, would reject this one.

But within ten years' time it became a thriving neighborhood full of artists drawn by cheap rents in buildings that were slated to be torn down many of whom fought against and ultimately defeated plans for the project in 1969.

In August 2012, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg admitted defeat over plans for House of Lords reform because of backbench Tory MPs' opposition to the plans.

She stopped short of conceding defeat, but plans an event to show party unity.

A compromise has emerged which may allow Gordon Brown to avoid a humiliating Commons defeat over plans to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days.