Sentence examples for may defeating from inspiring English sources

The prime minister's party won an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections in May, defeating many veteran legislators from Ms. Birtukan's opposition party.

Disclosure may defeat a worthy policy but a secret may protect unworthy ends.

If we turn over our financial recourses to the Allies, we may defeat the Nazis.

"The salesman may defeat us in the end," Dr. Cook writes, "but not without a good fight".

Clinton may defeat Sanders's millennial army in the primaries, but to succeed she and other Democrats will need its support for years to come.

Barcelona may defeat Madrid in the next clásico – Guardiola has won four of five in the league – but they are also faced with a problem: Madrid may not be as good as Barça but they may not have to be.

That has given rise to a more nuanced view of trauma — less a poison than an infectious agent, a challenge that most people overcome but that may defeat those weakened by past traumas, genetics or other factors.

And yet, for some men, tearing out photos from magazines and keeping a lineup of products on the bathroom shelf may defeat the purpose of growing a beard in the first place.

Application of individual practice as a separate tool for improvement may defeat the purpose of Lean philosophy.

However, they have not considered the effects of voltage transition overheads, which may defeat the benefit of task scheduling.

Results of the investigation show that corrosion of reinforcement may defeat the very purpose of providing transverse confinement in hinge regions of RC columns.