"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was defeated on the Senate floor, 45 to 35.
- Indeed, not one candidate seems to have been defeated on the issue.
- In the end, the Democratic efforts to pay for the agency were defeated on a voice vote.
- He was defeated again on another attempt in the 1963 election.
- He tried in 1908, 1917 and 1921, only to be defeated on all occasions.
- The amendment was defeated on a vote of 17 to 12.
- The motion was put to the house but defeated on party lines.
- This bill was defeated on June 9 by 220 votes to 199.
- The amendment was defeated on a vote of 252 to 172, with 92 Democrats against it.
- They defeated them for the championship again on December 29, 1974.
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