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For nearly 80 years Labour was the main political alternative to the Conservative Party or Tories, and in several general elections it defeated them.
The Democrats were defeated and depressed in November.
It took two decades, but in 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov of Russia in a six-game match in New York City.
Fascism can be defeated only if those outraged by it commit themselves to social justice with an intensity that equals their indignation.
By contrast, Cameroon, which Egypt defeated in the final, featured just a single player from a domestic club, and 20 from European clubs.
The problem with strategic bombing is that it seems never to have worked, with the possible exception of Rotterdam (but by then Holland had already been defeated).
If rich countries monopolize new technologies, the goal of worldwide use to solve worldwide problems will be defeated.
The real contenders among economic and political systems seem to be a relatively humane welfare-state capitalism -- which is the system that defeated Communism, but which seems to be falling apart in both Europe and North America; a raw frontier-style capitalism, with few protections for the unlucky -- a system that seems to be the objective of conservatives in the United States, and may be the eventual outcome in much of Europe; and an oligarchy in which the power of the state is used to further the interests of the elite, with little pretense of either socialism or democracy -- the system that now prevails in China and to a lesser extent in some other Asian developing countries, and that could easily become the future of much of the former Soviet Empire.
Netanyahu and Abbas both showed once again how the politics surrounding “the peace process” has defeated the cause of peace.
Tusk, who defeated the PiS in eight consecutive elections over the course of his career, was Prime Minister at the time.
Indeed, the Egyptian revolution has defeated Mubarak’s regime and its remnants three times since January 2011: first with Mubarak’s ouster, then in the parliamentary elections held earlier this year, and now with Morsi’s victory.
But determinism in history has always been defeated by the unpredictable forces of human will, and, in this case, by the West’s extraordinary capacity for renewal, even after cataclysmic defeats.
Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice, whose membership ran into the millions, was eventually defeated by the American system’s powerful democratic antibodies.
Many Thai military and police officials now privately admit that the insurgency cannot be defeated through security measures.
In 1950, five years after the war, Germany’s first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, also proposed a union – this time between France and Germany – as a way out of his defeated country’s existential crisis.
A Triumph for “Old Europe”Italy may have defeated France to win the World Cup, but the real winner was the “Old Europe” that Donald Rumsfeld once derided.
If his years of amassing cash had led to victory, John might have got away with his arbitrary methods; but when he was defeated in France, a group of barons rose up against him and captured London.
Defeated and divided, it became a French colony in the nineteenth century, regaining independence in 1960.
But economic depression, however difficult, is not war, and the position of today’s Greece cannot compare to that of the defeated Germans in 1918.
On Sunday, Ricardo Lagos, the socialist leader, defeated his conservative challenger Joaquin Lavin, by 190,000 votes, the smallest margin of any presidential election since Chile's return to democracy.
Of course, we now recognize more clearly than ever that history has always been written by the victors, which gave rise in recent decades to frequent demands that the history of the victims and the defeated be written, at least next to that of the victors.
While the Islamists have been temporarily defeated, they are well armed and receive supplies from Libya via Algeria, which has suppressed Islamists at home but seems to turn a blind eye to their transit through its territory.
With the common enemy – the secularist old guard – defeated, there was little to hold the alliance together.
Consider a recent candid statement by Israeli Major General Herzi Halevy (quoted to me by a journalist who attended the speech where Halevy made it): “Israel does not want to see the situation in Syria end with [ISIS] defeated, the superpowers gone from the region, and [Israel] left with a Hezbollah and Iran that have greater capabilities.”
It was about standing up to the Zionist enemy, the high-tech crusader whose military superiority can be defeated only by stubborn resistance.
To be sure, the rescue plan that was just defeated was far better than what the Bush administration originally proposed.
Moldova’s main claim to fame is King Stephen the Great, who defeated the Ottomans in a great fifteenth century battle.
This is not to say that the forces of disintegration have been defeated.
She won famous victories, but showed no generosity to the defeated, in word or deed.
And, by mortgaging his entire Middle East policy to the concept of an “ideological confrontation” against the forces of evil, Bush is putting his entire strategy on the weary shoulders of a defeated Palestinian president without really providing him with the necessary tools.
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