Sentence examples for mostly defeated from inspiring English sources

She repeatedly argued that the midterm results, in which Democrats were mostly defeated in key races and Republicans regained control of the Senate, were evidence that voters wanted bipartisan action.

It tried several times from the late 1970s to the early '90s to set up a group purchasing system, Dr. Min writes, but the companies that control the market mostly defeated such efforts.

Lise Lindstrom was Salome, secure and silvery of tone, never overwhelmingly powerful but persistent and intense; Kim Begley was the pliable Herod, Birgit Remmert the severe Herodias and James Rutherford the Jokanaan, wrapping his burnished tone around the prophet's phrases and communicating meaning in a way that mostly defeated other singers.

These tactics were eventually successful; by 1999, the population in the north west had stopped supporting the insurgency and the insurgents were mostly defeated.

But it would mostly defeat the purpose.

For a mill town that has known mostly defeat since the steel industry declined in the 1980s, football is bringing incessant victory.

From the Russian revolution of 1917, which his generation initially had welcomed, to the survival of the Salazar and Franco dictatorships - with the help of the western democracies - he had known mostly defeats.

Shareholder resolutions on other subjects have mostly been defeated, as usual.

And independent candidates standing on "anti-politics" tickets in 2010 in the wake of the Commons expenses scandal were mostly soundly defeated.

by fans after a mostly white team defeated a team of mostly Hispanic players.

Two earlier proposals — including one for a retail complex and theater housing Cirque du Soleil — have been defeated mostly by community opposition.