Sentence examples for defeated in the past from inspiring English sources

Others said they would vote for him because there was no one better; in this election Mr. Putin faces three shopworn figures he has defeated in the past, and a newcomer, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, who poses no real threat.

If some of the greatest evils on Earth have been defeated in the past, they may be so again.

Paarthurnax reveals that Alduin was not truly defeated in the past, but was cast into the currents of time by the use of an Elder Scroll in the hope was that he would never reemerge.

"At this stage of the game, forget 'em!" he said, although he noted that a different story line could emerge in the general election, where the Democratic candidate has been defeated in the past five races.

He was narrowly defeated in the 1948 parliamentary election.

Folsom was defeated in the 1958 election by an extreme segregationist.

Cox was a lame duck; he had just been defeated in the 1864 election.

They were Franklin D. Roosevelt's about Wendell Willkie, whom Roosevelt defeated in the 1940 election.

He was defeated in the 1955 general election and four years later stood in Ilford South, again unsuccessfully.

He was defeated in the 1992 election by the current prime minister, Hubert Ingraham.

After the second budget was defeated in the spring, the district cut its entire interscholastic sports program.