suffer a crushing defeat

The Coalition suffered a crushing defeat in the 1943 election.

All along the front, the Soviet armed forces suffered a crushing defeat.

In 1925, the party had suffered a crushing defeat after 43 years in power.

His strike, however, flies just above the goal and India suffers a crushing defeat.

The ruling party suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the left-wing party.

McGovern and the Democrats suffered a crushing defeat, losing in 49 of the 50 states.

The Liberal Democrats also suffered a crushing defeat in the referendum on changing the voting system earlier this year.

Rwandan forces advancing from the north attacked the town, and the government forces suffered a crushing defeat.

In 1992, the Socialist Party suffered a crushing defeat with the right-wing parties winning 484 seats to the left's 92.

Mr. Habibie withdrew from the election when it was clear he would suffer a crushing defeat.

In 602 the Slavs suffered a crushing defeat in Wallachia.

France suffered a crushing defeat at Krefeld that June.

Theodoric did not manage to intervene in time, and the Heruls thus suffered a crushing defeat.

He was elected state chairman two months after the New York Republicans had suffered a crushing defeat in the 1990 gubernatorial election.

Ultimately, at Westport, Price would suffer a crushing defeat, and was forced to end his Missouri campaign.

Finally, in early summer the Arabs engaged the Bulgarians in battle but suffered a crushing defeat.

In countries where one side will settle for nothing less than total victory, then the war rages until one side suffers a crushing defeat.

After suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of the Romans, the Germans fled back over the Rhine.

The two armies met near Butera, where the Byzantines suffered a crushing defeat, losing about 10,000 men.

Wang Li's supply lines were disrupted and the Qin army suffered a crushing defeat.

Warmians suffered a crushing defeat and Glappo was captured.

Believing that he had suffered a crushing defeat he ordered his freedman Pindarus to kill him.

After the Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in the Nov. 5 election, they tried unsuccessfully to add a sunset provision to the entire tax package.

Gould's efforts did not come quickly enough, and Ortega suffered a crushing defeat, one that Gould predicted in his report last December.