"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- On 26 September 2012, Abe defeated former Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba in a run-off vote to win the LDP presidential election.
- During the federal election of 2004, she defeated former provincial Minister of Health Tony Clement in the newly created riding of Brampton West.
- He defeated H. Sitaram Reddy, Minister of Revenue and Industries in the then Composite state of Madras with a majority of 45,000 votes.
- He was elected MP for Enfield Southgate (UK Parliament constituency) in May 2005, defeating Minister of State for Education and Skills Stephen Twigg with a majority of 1,747 votes and a swing of 8.7%.
- In the 2002 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in Lekana constitency; he defeated Minister of Public Works Florent Ntsiba in the second round of voting, held in June 2002.
- In May 2006 Veltroni was confirmed Mayor of Rome, easily defeating former Minister of Agriculture Gianni Alemanno, of National Alliance, obtaining an unprecedented 61.4% of the valid votes against the 37.1% achieved by his main opponent.
- She won on the second ballot, defeating former Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja by 218 votes to 132.
- Shapps stood again in the 2005 election and was elected as the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield, defeating the Labour MP and Minister for Public Health, Melanie Johnson.
- He was elected to parliament in the 1935 federal election as a Liberal MP from the Toronto riding of Trinity defeating Minister of Justice and former Toronto mayor George Reginald Geary.
- On 28 June 2008, the Zimbabwe Times reported that Samuel Sandla Khumalo won the constituency of Mpopomo for MDC-Tsvangirai by soundly defeating Minister of Information Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, the ZANU-PF candidate.
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