Sentence examples for defeating among from inspiring English sources

Gavilan made seven successful defenses of his title, defeating, among others, Carmen Basilio and Billy Graham, whom he outpointed twice.

She was chosen in 1985 to succeed Ian Mikardo as candidate for Bow and Poplar, defeating among others the current shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, in the selection contest.

In the European Championships in Malmo, Sweden, in June, they had the satisfaction of defeating, among others, Iceland and Finland, and they tied with Norway.

Although he never captured the world championship, Keres won more than a score of international tournaments after World War II, defeating, among others, Mikhail Botvinnik, Tigran Petrosyan, and Boris Spassky, all of whom were world champions.

Having been handpicked by the president, Taft easily won the Republican nomination on the first ballot when the Republican convention met in June 1908 in Chicago, defeating, among others, Vice Pres.

And who was to blame for defeat among those wearing red?

But the feeling of defeat among the Tamils of Sri Lanka goes far deeper than the material defeat of the rebels.

Beckett's post-election autopsy pinned defeat, among other reasons, on Miliband's failure to challenge the myth that Labour caused the 2008 financial crash.

Romney's weaknesses among women are concentrated among those with college educations, both white and minority – he loses them in the Pew poll by 62-36, including a 57-40 margin of defeat among college-educated white women.

Sixty years later, arguments that black students associated studiousness with "acting white" were seen not as evidence of the negative effects of internalized racism but as indicators of pathological self-defeat among African-Americans.

The most telling defeat among the candidates she backed in the mid-terms was the senate candidate in Alaska, who lost to a write-in campaign.Not a single Republican I know will vote for her.