Senator John C.Calhoun said it was a bad defeat for the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Calling for higher taxes can mean defeat for a politician.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

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

It was a bitter defeat. But it made the North recognize the need for a real army one trained and equipped for war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

His speech to both houses of Congress followed a defeat last week for his Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

"Such movements as this for protection,"said Blaine, "will move the Republican Party only into speedy defeat."

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But labor unions and progressive groups tried to defeat her for opposing a "public option."

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Other wishes included working for a nuclear-free Korea and to defeat extremists in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The defeat not only ended British demands for territory in New England.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

But the drive for health-care reform ran headlong into opposition Republicans eager to regain their political footing after suffering defeat in the 2008 election.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"Wilson has to be given the credit for delivering a major defeat to the Soviet Union at a time when the Soviet Union was a threat to the free world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

Therefore,steps were taken virtually to abolish it,'". While systemic failure was the key factor for some observers, others highlight the role played by individuals working to defeat Soviet communism from within.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The two cabinet secretaries say the United States still wants to deter, defeat and dismantle the al-Qaida terrorist network, as President Obama said in his statement on strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

President Obama's first State of the Union address came at a time when his Democratic Party is still reeling from a stinging defeat last week for a U.S.Senate seat in the heavily Democratic state, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22