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Al Gore traded Clintonomics for traditional populism and was defeated by George W. Bush.
When German and Japanese dictatorships were defeated in WWII, it was assumed that recovery would take decades.
Was the left, for example, really defeated in Lithuania only because of its poor performance?
By the time the false religions of totalitarian ideologies were defeated, real religions – so it seemed – had long passed from the political scene.
That parliament will also be headed by the man Khatami defeated, Nateq-Nouri, who may continue the rivalry until a second presidential showdown in 2001.
In 1895, China was defeated by Japan, a tiny aggressor whom the Chinese dismissively called wa (the dwarf).
In Brazil, Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office, not defeated at the polls, but the collapse in popularity of her Workers’ Party (PT) and the pro-business administration that followed fit neatly with what seems like a regional trend.
The more the Islamic State is defeated on the ground and loses control of territory in Syria and Iraq, the more it is tempted to externalize the war to deter further intervention.
When Khatami’s reform program was ineffective, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an obscure officer of the Basij militia, was elected Mayor of Tehran in 2003 (after just 12% of the city’s voters turned out), and then defeated Rafsanjani in 2005 to become President.
In the event that the coalition of NATO forces in Afghanistan is defeated, a wave of Islamic extremism will submerge the Central Asian states, inciting local civil wars.
Long before you have a liberal democracy, you have to have a functioning state (something that never disappeared in Germany or Japan after they were defeated in World War II).
It is disastrous because it courts defeat by attacking superior forces: the 1967 Six Day War, Saddam Hussein’s challenge to the United States and his attack on Iran, Yasir Arafat’s fighting an endless battle in which he was always defeated, and so on.
Should he be defeated, finding refuge abroad, as Tunisia’s former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali did, will be difficult.
Tribal allegiances will play a pivotal role if Qaddafi is defeated in the coming days.
With the help of information, education and mass participation, women and men, have defeated ignorance and the violence that goes with it hand-in-hand.
It even backed Ryan’s Wisconsin congressional primary opponent, a Trump supporter whom Ryan defeated in an 84-16% landslide.
He still boasts that he defeated all of his Republican opponents, though, given how the primary process works, it’s easier to beat 16 rivals than one or two.
A caricature of a despot, he personifies the type of odious adversary whom all democrats want to see defeated.
That is, German behavior would be a function of how France behaved toward its defeated neighbor.
Had Obama’s goal been to rout the Taliban, a further military surge may have made sense, because a resurgent Taliban can be defeated only through major ground operations, not by airstrikes and covert action alone.
Each side conceives of itself as the only real representative of the nation, and treats its opponents as illegitimate alternatives, who should be disenfranchised, not merely defeated.
Sharif views Islamic extremism as an existential threat that needs to be faced and defeated.
While revolutionary communism was resisted by resoluteness on security, it was ultimately defeated by a better idea: freedom.
At this moment, however brief, America’s soft power defeated by a knockout that of China, which less than one day later solemnly – and in the most opaque manner – opened the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
That was Nicolas Sarkozy’s fate in France: he was defeated after losing the support of the center of the electorate.
Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfinished) career – from First Lady to United States Senator to presidential candidate to US Secretary of State in the administration of the man who defeated her – proves that Fitzgerald could not have been more wrong.
He was defeated militarily, but his decision to go to Jerusalem meant that he would succeed politically.
ISIS will eventually be defeated, just as other transnational terrorists were.
While the race is not over, Nicolas Sarkozy has emerged as the consistent favorite in the polls, as well as of those who declared “him” nearly defeated in early December.
Left to himself, Kwasniewski might be a plausible - if cynical - alternative to the defeated Mr. Walesa.
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