Sentence examples for defeating for from inspiring English sources

The Senate has rejected loosening restrictions on the FBI's ability to collect Americans' digital data, defeating for the time being a legislative move privacy advocates denounced as a cynical exploitation of the Orlando mass shooting.

"We lost a lot of patriotism during the Vietnam time," said Ms. Johnson, who as the mother of two sons in their 20's fears that any American incursion into Afghanistan and other terrorist haunts would prove as impossible and ultimately defeating for the nation as Vietnam.

Running into regulatory hurdles is as overwhelming as it is defeating for an entrepreneur.

An illiterate peasant teenager, guided by sacred voices, rallies a demoralized nation and leads its armies into battle, defeating (for a while) the seemingly invincible English.

The interstellar-fighting game, which pitted spaceships worth an estimated $1 million on each side of the two main alliances, ended in victory for the Moneybadger Coalition, who defended their Keepstar space station, defeating for the Imperium alliance, also known as the Clusterfuck Corporation.

The humanitarian suffering in Gaza is completely unjustified and self defeating for all those concerned with political progress in the Middle East.

He was defeated for re-election four years later.

Mr. Condit was defeated for re-election.

Representative Staton was defeated for reëlection in 1982.

After he was defeated for the governorship of Calif.

He was defeated for re-election in 2010.