"I have been built on challenge, defiance, resistance and, yes, defeat.
Now, I'm no insider lobbyist, but in addition to winning "yes" votes by defeating certain senators, I'm willing to bet that a lot of those remaining have gone back to revisit their conscience and their "no" votes on marriage equality and have "changed their mind" on the issue as they watch their fellow senators drop.
A "yes" was to defeat the amendment.
What I would like to see is a yes vote getting defeated maybe by 3,000 votes, and then we see how many Orangemen voted no – and that's the number that swung it".
Almost half (49%) of the 16- to 18-year-olds voted yes and were defeated, but the fact that they voted in such large numbers was a victory in itself, regardless of the final outcome.
Working alongside our allies, we will break their will, dry up their recruitment, keep them from crossing our borders, and yes, we will defeat them, and we will defeat them handily.
My island nation has seen first hand the devastation that mother nature can bring, yet the unwavering drive to push on leaves us battle scarred yes, but not defeated.
And yes, it seems the road to a team of humanoids defeating a team of human soccer players (the main goal of the RoboCup organizers) is still long.
Other Masons who led New York include the first and longest-serving governor, George Clinton; the two Roosevelts (Theodore and Franklin); Thomas Dewey (yes, the one who "defeated" Truman).
The answer is yes, if he can defeat Clinton by a big margin in her home state of New York on April 19.
