His party was defeated by nationalists in a general election last April.

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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.

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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.

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In 1776, General Washington's American troops defeated a Hessian force fighting for the British at the battle of Trenton, New Jersey.

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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.

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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.

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He defeated Huffman by a 43-37 percent margin (Hellon got 12 percent), and heads into the November general election against former state Sen.

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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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