Before the defeat to the Kings, they had won four of their previous six games.

Before Friday night's defeat, he had advanced to the final on all but one of those occasions.

And that was before the team's 2-0 defeat by Paraguay.

Both were cohesive nations long before their defeat; Iraq never has been.

He must have passed through Gurgan only a couple of months before his defeat.

Only two prototypes could be finished before the defeat of France.

He died in 762, before the final defeat of the rebel forces in 763.

The Confederacy did not allow slaves in their army as soldiers until the last month before its defeat.

For three years, he worked as general secretary of the Congress Party nationwide before its defeat in the 1977 elections.

The Howard government was unable to implement the scheme before the government's electoral defeat in 2007.