While expected, defeat did not detract from earlier dramatics.
The organizers expected defeat in German-speaking Basel, where Novartis and Roche Holdings A.G., another major drug company, have their headquarters.
They have been widely praised for their seemingly indomitable high spirits (amid expected defeat on the playing field) and sense of fair play.
Liberals, facing an expected defeat by the moderate Islamist party Ennahda, charge that it has leapt ahead with financial support from Persian Gulf allies.
In a vote of 1,061 to 576 among Democratic County Committee members, Mr. DiNapoli, as expected, defeated his opponent, Thomas R. Suozzi, a four-term Democratic mayor of Glen Cove.
On the evidence, the Guardian's Rob Booth is right to suggest it was intended to be an obituary after Cameron's expected defeat.
Still, security analysts say that even after the group's expected defeat in Hajin, the Islamic State is likely to remain a powerful terrorist force.
It is presumably just coincidence that a victory for the rockers would deprive Mr Portillo, who has turned having once been gay into a public political odyssey, of the leadership after the expected defeat.
Theresa May will make one final appeal to the Commons to pass her Brexit deal, amid speculation among many Conservative MPs that the expected defeat could spark a cross-party plan or moves to oust the prime minister.
