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The “extremists,” whom Bush expected to be defeated through economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and military action, have prevailed.
The Shamir government would be defeated at the polls, and the incoming Labor government would declare a freeze on all settlement construction, even on buildings that had already been started.
Neither is an easy task, and the precedent of incompetence established by Japan’s Democratic Party since it defeated the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party may make some South Korean voters reluctant to abandon the familiar and battle-tested GNP.
After WWII Germany and Japan were the defeated aggressors, the Soviet Union posed a major threat, and China was engulfed in a civil war that would bring Mao's Communists to power.
It would be a bit awkward, but the esteemed guests could also view “An Inconvenient Truth,” narrated by Al Gore, the man Bush narrowly defeated in the 2000 US presidential election.
But ordinary Russians’ sudden, unexpected defense of their newfound freedoms, together with the putschists’ sheer incompetence, defeated the effort to restore totalitarian rule.
In a country where “Down With the USA” remains plastered on hotel walls, the Americans were cheered even as the defeated Iranians and the American flag unfurled.
Indeed, he defeated an incumbent who really wanted to keep his job, and who might reasonably have been tempted to follow the lead of other African leaders defeated in a popular vote by simply refusing to accept the result.
This is why capital-account regulations are allowed under IMF rules, and why the attempt to introduce capital-account convertibility into the IMF’s Articles of Agreement was defeated in 1997.
After World War II, during which Germany had invaded France for the third time in 70 years, the French leader Jean Monnet decided that revenge upon a defeated Germany would produce yet another tragedy.
Like Dayan before him, Barak believes that Israel, a “villa in the jungle,” is forced to go to war every few years to consolidate its deterrence in an unmerciful Middle East neighborhood, where “there is no pity for the weak, nor a second chance for the defeated.”
A pro-European centrist had soundly defeated a far-right populist, the National Front’s Marine Le Pen.
However, now that his Popular Party has been defeated in the Spanish general elections, it is unlikely that he will be Europe's candidate for the IMF post.
But the failure to achieve this goal is precisely where the superior power is defeated in asymmetrical conflicts.
Once more reflecting and encouraging a large segment of what had been his people, he saw in Hitler the new man chosen by providence, the savior of a Germany defeated by treachery.
Jihadi extremism cannot be defeated unless the mainstream wins.
Finally, in 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a short match.
That is understandable: the upstarts thoroughly defeated the Democrats at the polls, often with outsize populist promises.
Egypt had been so resoundingly defeated in the Six-Day War of June 1967 that Israel’s leaders dismissed the need to be proactive in the search for peace.
Sadat’s peace overtures were defeated not because they lacked merit, but because Egypt was perceived as not having a military option to back them up.
The BOJ’s action is predicated on Abe’s commitment to restoring the sustainability of public finances once deflation has been defeated and the economy has returned to growth.
Despite Trump’s State of the Union claim that ISIS is nearly defeated, some 3,000 fighters remain in Syria, occasionally even capturing territory.
They have to be defeated.
Napoleon, defeated in that same year, had secured civil rights for Jews in the countries he had conquered.
For the US, a diplomatic breakdown would indicate that China had been “lost,” as it previously was thought to have been lost when Mao Zedong defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s US-supported Nationalist regime in 1949.
What makes the Himalayan incursion a powerful symbol of China’s aggressive new stance in Asia is that its intruding troops have set up camp in an area that extends beyond the “line of actual control” (LAC) that China itself unilaterally drew when it defeated India in the 1962 Chinese-initiated border war.
In 1981, Giscard was defeated largely as a result of the “betrayal” of his former prime minister, Jacques Chirac, who ran against him.
In country after country, the guerrillas were defeated, pacified, brought into the democratic process, or rendered irrelevant.
Most of its senior leaders were defeated in their constituencies – including one who hadn’t lost an election in 26 years.
But Mrs Megawati has just been defeated in her bid for reelection.
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