He first was nominated (by Andrey A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union) for president of the General Assembly, a less important office, but was defeated by Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium.
But as president, he had a sense of perspective about himself and his actions which enabled him to move forward where less tempered men would be defeated by circumstance or defeat themselves.
The three East Indiamen that made up the convoy fought against their opponent with their own batteries of cannon but ultimately were less powerful, less manoeuvrable and less trained than their opponent and were defeated one by one; only the smallest of the three escaped.
Finally, in Stern 2000, it is argued that modest transcendental arguments can be shown to be useful against skepticism, once we distinguish sufficiently carefully between the kinds of skepticism there are, and go for the right target or targets where a less demanding form of skepticism may perhaps be defeated by a less ambitious transcendental claim.
After he was defeated in less than 15 minutes, he began to cry.
The real victor of the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia (1781), in which the British were defeated, was less General George Washington than Admiral François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse (1722 88), whose fleet had entered Chesapeake Bay.
Mr. Paladino previously said he would spend up to $10 million on the race, but on Wednesday he suggested he might exceed that amount, and an aide said the campaign believed Mr. Cuomo could be defeated with less than $20 million.
Less than two months after being defeated at least partly because it was viewed as a tool of the rich, the G.O.P. is about to vote through a measure that, even by the standards of trickle-down economics, is shameful sop to those who need help least.
Because the more the truth about groups like Islamic State and how they operate becomes clouded by baloney and hype, the less likely they are to be defeated.
