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.