Sentence examples for which was trounced from inspiring English sources

Thus the loss, which wasn't as bad as what happened to Arkansas, which was trounced by Alabama.

"The opposition, which was trounced during the elections, is almost nonexistent, and civil society here in Hungary is weak," Mr. Hegedus added.

The third force in Sri Lankan politics, the JVP, which was trounced by Mr Rajapaksa's party at recent provincial and local government polls, wants to back a winning horse.

The results signify a dramatic rebound for the Liberation Front, which was trounced in presidential voting last year by Francisco Flores of the Republican Alliance, which has governed the country for more than a decade.

Across China, online companies large and small are learning how to be effective e-commerce players - or fail like US goliath eBay, which was trounced by upstart Taobao back in 2006.

Expanding the sales tax to encompass services -- a favored trope of the professional reform class, which in the past would pair it with a bid to lower taxes for the rich and big corporations -- is an idea which is trounced in the poll.

The twice-a-month collection regime, now in use in more than half the country, is particularly unpopular and became a contentious issue in recent local elections, in which the ruling Labor Party was trounced by its opponents.

Obama and Ban also praised Thein Sein for successfully staging the historic poll, with the UN chief acknowledging his "courage and vision" to organize an election in which the ruling camp was trounced.

Washington should learn from the outcomes of the election last month in which Mr. Musharraf's party was trounced and an alliance of religious parties in the North-West Frontier Province, adjacent to the tribal areas, was also defeated, said Javangir Tareen, the leader of a faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, who was a member of Mr. Musharraf's early cabinet.

The military appeared to be trying to avoid the pitfalls of the last election, in 1990, which it annulled after the party it backed was trounced by a democratic opposition led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Similar numbers were put up for several other late primaries in which Obama outspent Clinton by a significant margin but was trounced nonetheless.