Personal incomes for many Russians rose sharply, Russian troops and their proxies defeated and marginalized the bulk of separatist forces in Chechnya, and the Kremlin paid down foreign debts ahead of schedule.
The following year he won a sharply contested Democratic primary and then decisively defeated Republican challenger Michael S. Steele, then the state's lieutenant governor.
Port Washington Residents of the Port Washington district vote Tuesday on a sharply revised budget, cut by $1,133,808 from the defeated version.
If President Obama is defeated, the Supreme Court will swing even more sharply to the right on questions involving discrimination; if he is re-elected, the current polarization over civil rights seems likely to continue.
After Green Bay defeated Indianapolis on Sunday night, Packers cornerback Charles Woodson reacted sharply to the story about Favre.
Three ballot measures in Colorado that would have cut the state income tax and sharply restricted government borrowing and property taxes for schools were overwhelmingly defeated.
CHICAGO — The screams of joy came from the losing locker room, where emotions shifted sharply like momentum at Soldier Field, where smiles replaced frowns, where the defeated players dumped an ice bucket on their head coach in celebration.
Last week Charles W. Ergen, Echostar's chief executive, who defeated Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation in the bidding for DirecTV, sharply criticized Disney for using its lobbying influence as a bargaining chip.
Bret D. Schundler, the crusading conservative mayor of Jersey City, soundly defeated former Representative Bob Franks in the Republican primary for governor today, setting up a sharply drawn November contest with James E. McGreevey, the Democrat.
Last month, eight of the nine members of that board were defeated for re-election by a slate of candidates upset with the board's action, which sharply divided the small rural community in southeastern Pennsylvania (ScienceNOW, 9 November).
