Or the basic calculation could prove to be wrong, with legal defeat leading not to political victory but only to more defeat.

This legal defeat has by no means put an end to creation- science.

Will the legal defeat of two file-sharing companies change anything?

As a lawyer, did the mayor learn anything from his expensive legal defeat over the "Sensation" exhibition in 1999?

But what seemed like a major legal defeat was an important political victory.

But the book gives a fine account of how one man's persistence resulted in total legal defeat of what was the country's largest corporate entity.

Scimed Life Systems shares jumped after analysts said a legal defeat would cost the company less than expected.

The legal defeat for the governor, a Republican, came on the eve of public hearings investigating whether he should be impeached.

But lawyers familiar with the case said it was a legal defeat that might have been avoided if prosecutors had sought a much narrower indictment.

And that modification led to a legal defeat.