"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Segrave won, causing Wood's first defeat in nine years.
- The petition could have passed, but a delaying action by Bradford gave the conservative side time to maneuver against it which caused its defeat.
- This issue nearly caused the Pawley government's defeat at the polls in the 1986 provincial election.
- Hamilton's opposition to Adams' re-election helped cause his defeat in the 1800 election.
- The refusal of the local Swabian rulers to support him caused his defeat.
- At the time, Nuuhiwa was weakened by a bad case of stomach flu, contributing to or causing his defeat.
- Here, Chauhan's political allies desert him causing his defeat.
- Reyes suffered poor form in breaking that caused his defeat.
- It was the thoroughness of English government which to some extent caused its defeat.
- The big one was Phobos, named after the personification of fear: the type that possessed armies and caused their defeat.
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