They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

He replaced General Ambrose Burnside, when Burnside suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg,Virginia, at the end of eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The strategy says the United States aims to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida, but also to support democracy and human rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

And,here is the favorite proverb of Marius Meledje in Ivory Coast: "Your defeat now is your victory in the future."

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

The professor has a vicious enemy to defeat, central intelligence agents to outsmart and a friend to save.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The ruling clears the way for corporations and unions to use their own money to support the election or defeat of a candidate.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Part of the book talks about the defeat of the Italian army at a place called Caporetto.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The treaty was defeated. The defeat ended Wilson's dream of American membership in the League of Nations.

VOA: special.2010.11.18