Sentence examples for had defeated for from inspiring English sources

"He is a great big boy," Woodrow Wilson said, in 1914, of Theodore Roosevelt, whom he had defeated for President.

From afar, the man Jackson had defeated for the White House, John Quincy Adams, was horrified his alma mater was recognizing a barbarian who could barely spell his own name.

The Democratic majority in the General Assembly elected Breckinridge to succeed Crittenden by a vote of 81 to 53 over Joshua Fry Bell, who Magoffin had defeated for the governorship in August.

Alben Barkley, who Cantrill had defeated for the nomination, refused to be the Democratic candidate, perhaps because he had already decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 1926.

Most applause goes to Laurent Jalabert, and the man he has defeated for the mountains prize, Richard Virenque.

Eighteen days before the Olympic race in Athens, Lagat had defeated Guerrouj for the first time, in Zurich.

If Obama had defeated Bobby Rush for his South Side seat, he almost certainly wouldn't be the presumptive Democratic nominee today.

A British mathematician made headlines this week by claiming to have solved a problem that had defeated researchers for 140 years: how to make a classic formula with broad applications in physics and engineering apply to objects riddled with holes.

The U.S., which had defeated Canada for the Pan American Games title, got past defending world champion Greece twice during the event, Canada twice and defending European champion Italy once.

By August 937 Olaf had defeated his rivals for control of the Viking part of Ireland, and he promptly launched a bid for the former Norse kingdom of York.

Two games later, the Falcons had defeated Arcadia again for the outright league championship and were hosting Lakewood in the first round of the Southern Section Division II playoffs.