Sentence examples for defeated in the chamber from inspiring English sources

Last night the government was defeated in the chamber, by a single vote, on a motion to approve the consolidated 2010 public accounts.This was triply humiliating.

As the Brexit bill heads to the House of Lords this week, Mandelson also said he believed the government could be defeated in the upper chamber on the issues of a meaningful parliamentary vote at the end of negotiations and guaranteed rights for EU citizens in the UK.

An opposition attempt to enfranchise younger voters was narrowly defeated in the House of Lords – a month after the upper chamber supported the move by a large majority.

He was defeated in the primary, anyway.

Solomon was defeated in the battle.

She was defeated in the 1940 election.

He had to take on and defeat David Cameron in the chamber.

It was his government's second defeat in the chamber since coming to power in 1997 (the first, on the detention of terror suspects, occurred last November).

The first chamber was overwhelmingly for the proposal with the result 108 16, but the proponents feared a defeat in the second chamber.

With the Liberal Democrats and some independent crossbench peers thought to be opposed to the measure, the government could easily have faced defeat in the upper chamber.

The upper house has now inflicted numerous defeats and concessions on the bill, which suffered 11 defeats in the second chamber, and is being torn apart and criticised by peers from across the political divide.