The monumental image of Mr Hussein is not at all, as adversaries would present him, a beleaguered dictator and defeated general.
It was Mercosur and American warnings that last year defeated the general's not-quite coup.
Ian Swales of the Lib Dems unexpectedly defeated Solicitor General Vera Baird in Redcar in Cleveland, previously a Labour stronghold.
He defeated Vietnam-era General William Westmoreland in a 1982 libel suit against CBS, largely by quoting the commander's own words back at him.
His party was defeated by nationalists in a general election last April.
Mr Prodi, who defeated Mr Berlusconi in a general election seven years ago, could well return to Italy in 2004 to lead the opposition into the next one.
In 1988 Bush won the Republican nomination for President and, with Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, he defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the general election.
After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal , took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.
In 1984, the Israeli government was defeated in parliament, forcing it into early general elections.
In 1776, General Washington's American troops defeated a Hessian force fighting for the British at the battle of Trenton, New Jersey.
In Virginia, Democrat Mark Warner, a wealthy venture capitalist who narrowly lost a race for the U.S. Senate in 1996, defeated Republican Mark Earley, a former state attorney general.
He came from nowhere, defeated the Clintons in the primary and handily defeated a genuine war hero and veteran senator in the general election.
After declaring the ceasefire over, senior officials, including the army chief, General Sarath Fonseka, said the Tigers would be defeated this year.
But Brigadier General Yossi Cooperwasser today acknowledged that Hezbollah is far from defeated.
The document sought to rebut the reasons Mr Tang had given for leaving Singapore soon after the general election in January, in which he was a defeated candidate.
Mann said the plot was rushed through before the 2004 general elections in Spain, in case the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was defeated, Reuters news agency reported.
He defeated Huffman by a 43-37 percent margin (Hellon got 12 percent), and heads into the November general election against former state Sen.
The former general seized power in a military coup in 1999 and remained in office until 2008 when his supporters were defeated in parliamentary elections.
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