"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Fitzwater said his side had spent $10 million to defeat the bill.
- Conservation groups, which helped defeat the bill last year, said the changes would not be enough to eliminate their opposition.
- The state Senate defeated the bill in a bipartisan 18-17 vote.
- Langan led a 23-hour filibuster to defeat the new bill.
- Many acknowledge that defeating the bill remains an uphill battle.
- Labor leaders, however, said they had mobilized to defeat the bill.
- If so, it cannot be stopped on the House floor without defeating the entire bill.
- However, just the right number of right-wingers would call in sick that day to allow the Labor party members present to defeat the bill.
- That's why minority contractors have organized to defeat the bill.
- The best result would be for the Senate to defeat the bill and go back to the drawing board.
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