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It’s obvious that Trump and his strong allies in Congress – he has more than one might expect – are determined to torpedo what’s supposed to be an independent legal inquiry into whether Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The opposition, still smarting from its narrow defeat in last autumn's election, accuses him of not having told the truth about Germany's weak economy and the consequences for the national budget.
In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.
In particular, can it defeat the Salafi/Wahhabi thought that has long nurtured Osama bin Laden and his ilk, and which remains the professed and protected ideology of Saudi Arabia?
But of course, my grandmother was right to equate defeat with liberation.
But paradoxically, it may also contain an element of forgetfulness, because it tends to conceal the fact that liberation required a military defeat.
Moreover, Senate procedures dictate that to enact tax reform with a simple majority, rather than the three-fifths supermajority required to defeat an almost-certain filibuster by opposition Democrats, the reform must be budget-neutral for ten years.
On the other hand, the Dutch populist avatar Geert Wilders recently suffered an electoral defeat, relative to what many expected.
In the latest caucus, in Nevada, Clinton’s presumed advantage among non-white voters, who are a far greater factor in Nevada than in Iowa or New Hampshire, seems to have served her well, with Sanders failing to win enough African-American voters, in particular, to defeat her.
Bombs and bullets alone cannot defeat political poison.
To have to deliver on that threat is always a defeat.
And, more to the point, they were successful: their eventual assassination of Conrad of Montferrat led directly to the political collapse of the Crusader coalition and the defeat of Richard the Lionheart of England.
A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.
With the Islamic State (ISIS), the main inspiration for transnational terror nowadays, facing near-total defeat on the ground, the group is scrambling to use what weapons it still possesses – namely, its ability to inspire young would-be terrorists around the world.
The truth is that Sarkozy never really accepted his defeat.
But that seems unlikely: since the Democrats’ massive defeat in 2010, Obama has moved even further to the left, embracing a more populist agenda.
If no action is taken, such lawsuits will only become more frequent and difficult to defeat.
The recent electoral defeat of the secessionists in Quebec should serve as a lesson for separatists throughout Europe.
Only a strong leader, de Gaulle thought, could have avoided defeat.
The losers in the Civil War were never quite reconciled to their defeat.
In any case, instability is unlikely because our state officials, at all levels, will forget about Kuchma the minute the vote-count tolls his defeat.
Now Obama faces defeat in the mid-term elections at the hands of Republicans whose past policies created many of the problems that weigh him down today.
But instead of seeking reconciliation with the Tamils following their defeat, then-President Mahinda Rajapaksa continued to play on ethnic hatred as he subverted Sri Lanka’s democracy.
Rajapaksa’s unexpected defeat by a coalition of Sri Lanka’s democrats and Tamil political parties in last January’s presidential election – a result that he then sought to annul – should have ended both his career and the politics of race-baiting.
It is a great victory for business executives, but a huge defeat for the principles that should guide capitalism.
The city of Basra, 20 miles inland on the Euphrates, was occupied on November 22 nd , after the defeat of more determined opposition.
It went on to defeat Manchu-ruled China and Czarist Russia in two separate wars, making it Asia’s first modern global military power.
Even after its crushing World War II defeat and occupation by the United States, Japan managed major economic successes, becoming by the 1980s a global industrial powerhouse, the likes of which Asia had never seen.
Some might see this as a defeat for Israel.
But the move proved to be a strategic defeat, given that it significantly diminished the United States’ political influence in Iraq.
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