"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the initiative was overwhelmingly defeated, with 59 percent voting no.
- The farm lobby overwhelmingly defeated a similar plan there last week.
- In any event, he predicted such a request would be overwhelmingly defeated.
- Legislation to change the nation's 60-year-old banking laws was overwhelmingly defeated by the House.
- The union's other proposal, to sell some assets, was overwhelmingly defeated.
- He was overwhelmingly defeated, receiving only 15,598 votes out of nearly one million cast.
- He was overwhelmingly defeated and driven away by the an army under the command of Ahmed.
- The referendum was held on 5 May 2011 and was overwhelmingly defeated.
- They were overwhelmingly defeated and collapsed as a movement.
- He ran for governor in 1948, overwhelmingly defeating Thompson, and served the final two years of the term his father had been elected to.
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