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His warning came after being defeated in his attempts to stop Juncker being voted in as president.

Chiarelli was defeated in the election and the light-rail expansion was stopped by the new council.

See articleJohn McCain's attempt to reduce earmarks in an omnibus spending bill was defeated in the Senate.

A first attempt by the SNP to introduce such a bill was defeated in the last parliament.

He made another attempt at his old seat in 1976, but was defeated in the Democratic primary election by Paul Sarbanes.

He was defeated in the primary, anyway.

Two years later he was defeated in his attempt to buy his old employer, which had been renamed Paramount Communications.

But Cameron, "in the real world", would be defeated in the Commons should he attempt to scrap the HRA.

It was defeated in takeover attempts in Hong Kong and Malaysia, in large part for this reason.Only a fool underestimates this family.

Although the Japanese had been defeated in the Coral Sea, another attempt at capturing Port Moresby was anticipated.

The attempt to overturn the rule was defeated in a vote during that year's session of the assembly.