Sentence examples for defeated movement from inspiring English sources

The mood around the city - a stronghold of the defeated Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party - will be a striking contrast to the rehearsed colourful celebrations inside a packed National Stadium, where each of the country's 10 provinces is sending in buses loaded with members of Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

Army troops defeated the movement in late 1987.

The RNC also defeated a movement by socially moderate delegates to soften the party's tone on LGBT rights.

They are the surviving leaders of UNITA, Angola's defeated rebel movement, who have turned a cluster of brocade sofas into their new headquarters.

Hamas still represents a serious political threat to Fatah after the Islamists defeated the movement at the last general elections in 2006.

Though the electorate also did not embrace the Tea Party and its candidates – a majority of those affiliated lost for the House of Representatives and nearly all those running for the Senate were defeated – this movement lent the Grand Old Party the patina of something new and different.

Ms Lakwena promised her followers immunity from the bullets of the Ugandan army, but Mr Museveni's troops defeated her movement in 1988 and she fled to Kenya.

"If you want to defeat a movement," Moore explained, "you try to defeat the head of the movement.

The separatist challenge was a major crisis in Canadian history, and his admirers say he saved Canada by defeating the movement.

Gov. Gray Davis of California has 74 days to defeat the movement to recall him or face being only the second governor in American history to be removed from office by referendum.

NASHVILLE — Members of N.C.A.A. Division I upheld a ban on text-messaging to high school students Saturday at their annual convention, defeating a movement by college coaches who had argued that the new technology was vital to connecting with teenage prospects.