defeat

He rebuffed calls to institute the death penalty, and his last term as governor ended in his defeat.

After the defeat of ISIS in Sinjar, most other locals have been left wondering who might rule the city in the near future.

That defeat was driven largely by Romney losing women voters by an insurmountable 11 points.

In recent days, there has been a subtle feeling of defeat permeating through the camp.

But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

He will tell you about the success he had in America; it quite makes up for the defeat of the British army in the Revolution.

But after the defeat at Leipzig King Joachim asked and obtained leave to return to his own dominions.

But she had experienced an hour of mixed emotions in which a confused and wondering sense of defeat was paramount.