Sentence examples for defeating state from inspiring English sources

She won re-election in 1997, defeating State Sen. James E. McGreevey, a Democrat, who ran again in 2001, after Ms. Whitman's departure for Washington, and won.

The soda industry has poured over $67 million into defeating state and local efforts to regulate soft drink sales in the United States since 2009, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

In Oklahoma, Rep. James Lankford won the Republican Senate nomination, easily defeating state House speaker T.W. Shannon, who is half black and half Native American and was backed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex). and some tea party groups.

Senator James M. Inhofe, a Republican who is one of the most vocal critics in Congress of the theory of global warming, won re-election to a fourth term, defeating State Senator Andrew Rice, a Democrat, and a conservative candidate who ran as an independent, Stephen P. Wallace.

Although the convergent conception of the standard view accords religious reasons a potentially decisive role in defeating state coercion, and so accords religious reasons a much more prominent role in the justification of state coercion than religious reasons have on most alternative formulations of the standard view, it is also consistent with the DRR.

After failing to secure the Utah Senate Republican nomination outright, Romney cruised to victory in Utah's GOP primary in June, easily defeating state Rep. Mike Kennedy.

Noem defeated state Attorney General Marty Jackley.

Senator Christopher S. Bond, the three-term Republican incumbent, defeated State Treasurer Nancy Farmer.

In the Bronx, City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. defeated State Senator Pedro Espada Jr.

In the closely watched 6th Congressional District, businessman David Trone defeated state Del.

State law prohibits the use of corporate donations to elect or defeat state candidates.