Sentence examples for openly defeated from inspiring English sources

Those who broadly favor the administration's policies, meanwhile, should welcome a debate in which the liberal views can be fairly and openly defeated.

Qatar's position and influence in the region would be irreparably damaged should the rebels it has backed so openly be defeated.

It's because Tammy Baldwin, openly lesbian, defeated a former governor of Wisconsin and a Bush cabinet member to become a senator.

In Virginia, a thirty-three-year-old openly transgender candidate defeated a seventy-three-year-old Republican assemblyman who wrote a bill that would have forced people to use restrooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificates.

On top of that, Mrs Merkel openly backed the defeated candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.

Wilson, who had previously made a name for himself in Houston politics by sending out thousands of mailers attacking an openly gay mayoral candidate, defeated 24-year incumbent Bruce Austin by just 26votess.

5.25pm GMT Today's meeting with big business CEOs comes with a tasty order of schadenfreude for the White House, as the National Journal points out: Only a month ago, many in the business community were openly trying to defeat the president.

"I am very excited that Alexi has always been at the forefront of the issue," said Meister, an openly gay lawyer who was defeated by Giannoulias in the primary race for the Democratic Senate nomination.

In 2010, after multiple attempts to drill a well in the muddy soil of the Moale village in the Central African Republic, the organization's founder, Scott Harrison, openly conceded defeat.

It was pretty much the first time that Republicans spoke openly about defeat.

The interviews reflected a marked shift in the mood from only months ago, when many Republicans were openly skeptical that Mr. Obama could be defeated.