Even the most famous players from the richest nations or clubs can be defeated by 11 inspired opponents.
The gut infection Clostridium difficile can be defeated by a cocktail of rival good bacteria, experiments in mice show.
Ingenuity is too compact, powerful and portable to be defeated by inept public policy that's implemented only here or there.
On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands, only to be defeated by a British task force sent to recover them.
Also like Firesheep, the hack can be defeated by an encrypted connection.
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"Global terror will only be defeated by a global response, " he said.
"Life was too short for Roger to be defeated by illness, so when Roger's body became weak, we saw how his mind become sharper, " Emanuel said.
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Insurgencies tend not to be defeated by military means alone.
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His uncle, the Duke of York, served as a helicopter pilot in the 1982 conflict, when Argentina invaded the islands only to be defeated by a British task force.
But many a multinational has come to India with dreams of making a killing only to be defeated by its vast distances, its regional quirks and its sheer poverty.
Mr Clarke's opposition to the Iraq war kept his name in the headlines and then he made another bid for the top job in 2005, only to be defeated by David Cameron, who has now brought him out of the wings and back under the spotlight.
The martial art of jujitsu teaches that an adversary wielding brute strength alone can be decisively defeated by someone who is weaker, but more skillful.
Mr Sarkozy won the presidential election of 2007 comfortably, only to be defeated last year by Socialist candidate Francois Hollande.
And over time, they can be marginalized and defeated by the Iraqi people and the security forces of a free Iraq.
Mr Ahmadinejad has made a hash of the economy, so there is at least a chance he could be defeated at the polls by a more pragmatic figure.
But the Europeans are right that the Taliban and al-Qaeda cannot be defeated only, or even mainly, by firepower.
The star of the Lib Dem intake is Julian Huppert who seems to be filling the Commons niche vacated by his defeated colleague Dr Evan Harris - the scientist and civil libertarian (he's a "computational biologist" which sounds impressively arcane).
The Fawley heat proved to be a much closer race as the Tiffin School were defeated by the Australian crew from the Sydney Rowing Club.
This is worth watching, because Labour has taken the line that IMF money should not be used for eurozone bailouts - and that very issue could one day become the subject of another Conservative uprising (there was a notable one in July) - and if Labour is backed by Tory rebels, the government could be defeated.
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Labour, which wanted to delay it until at least April saying "it would be wrong" for it to take effect sooner, was defeated by 282 votes to 234.
Mr Lee announced last week he would be taking on Mr Cereste for the Tory leadership, but he was defeated by 24 votes to eight following members' votes on Tuesday.
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The amendment calling for Healthwatch England to be set up as an independent body with powers to investigate complaints was later defeated by 189 votes to 165, a government majority of 24.
At the end of the debate Labour's amendment to require "best" efforts to be made to ensure that employers participate in the provision of apprenticeship training was defeated by 285 votes to 191, majority 94.
Chavez's boisterous state funeral Friday often felt like a political rally for his anointed successor, Maduro, who eulogized him by pledging eternal loyalty and vowing Chavez's movement will never be defeated.
He sought to be selected as Labour's candidate for the 2003 London Mayoral election, but was defeated by Nicky Gavron.
Though Willkie was defeated by FDR, he showed Republicans that you could defend free enterprise without seeming to be against the poor, the unemployed and the embattled middle class.
If he gets seduced by the Jim Murphys and the Douglas Alexanders, then the truth is that he'll be defeated and he'll be cast into the dustbin of history.
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But with Mr Obama's determination to close it down defeated by a Congress revolted by the idea of trying the detainees on American soil, it may be a long time before nature reclaims Guantanamo as a whole.
On the other hand, if this crisis is resolved with the perpetrator of aggression decisively defeated precisely because his aggression was backed by weapons of mass destruction, this first conflict of what might be called "the Proliferation Age" may well send a highly salutary deterrent message to those considering obtaining such weapons.
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