"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hill defeated the sitting Liberal member, Bob Bloffwitch, in the 2001 state election.
- He ran as an independent, defeating the sitting member, Sir Archdale Parkhill.
- At the election he defeated the sitting Liberal member Max Dunbier.
- He won the seat, defeating the sitting Liberal member of parliament, James Rowlands.
- He defeated the sitting member and his Progressive Party colleague Richard Price.
- He defeated the sitting Liberal member, Phil Barresi, who had held the seat since 1996.
- He defeated the sitting member, Paul Andrews.
- He defeated the sitting Independent member, George Mitchell who was on active overseas war service at the time of the election.
- He won the seat at the 2007 Australian federal election, defeating the sitting Liberal member, David Fawcett.
- He had initially been announced as the winning candidate, defeating the sitting Liberal member Fran Bailey by a mere seven votes.
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