The French left, represented by the Socialists, has suffered its third consecutive defeat in a presidential election.

His Conservative Party was marked by the scandal, which may have contributed to its defeat by Labour in the 1964 general election.

Then, on election night, when the television networks projected Romney s defeat in Ohio and therefore Barack Obama s re election, the Romney campaign, in a further denial of fact, refused to accept the result.

In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.

In 2003, he became Minister for Health and Ageing, retaining this position until the defeat of the Howard Government at the 2007 election.

Much has been made of the massive defeat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s Liberal Democratic Party suffered in the recent election to Japan s Upper House.

The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer s upper house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax.

Worst of all, the election loser, López Obrador, seems willing to throw the country into turmoil rather than accept the constitutional legitimacy of his defeat.

Its secular politicians ability to defeat the country s Islamists decisively in the recent parliamentary election may, indeed, have revived the viability of Muslim democracy around the world.

Also noteworthy in that election is that the losing side immediately accepted defeat and that Syria is now obviously serious about building a new rapport with Lebanon.

But following all of these rules should ensure that a party maintains credibility and respect, and that, in defeat, it at least remains competitive for the next election.

Indeed, the uniform prediction prior to the 2004 election was that, after having lost three elections in a row, the Congress was heading for its fourth defeat and eventual dissolution.

In a Westminster parliamentary system, the defeat of an appropriation bill in a parliamentary vote generally necessitates either the resignation of a government or the calling of a general election.

He admitted defeat.

The tiny West African state of The Gambia has sent shock waves around the world with a historic presidential election that resulted in the defeat of the region's longest serving president.

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Twelve years later, his organization had its moment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry S. Truman in the 1948 election, by five to fifteen percentage points.

José Miguel Insulza s election as Secretary General of the Organization of American States, and the consequent defeat of the candidate supported by the Bush administration, emphatically demonstrated the decline of America s continental leadership.

Similarly, after his recent crushing election defeat, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti wistfully explained that Italy s voters were too impatient to bear reforms whose benefits would only become evident beyond the electoral cycle.

They have admitted their defeat.

Tin political ears deserve defeat.

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The new consensus can be described as follows Ségolène Royal cannot defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, but Sarkozy can defeat himself.

The Lakota defeat the U.S. army.

No one was prepared for defeat.

But I want France to avenge its defeat at the last World Cup in Seville, not its defeat at Verdun.

NEW YORK Defeat in the Massachusetts senatorial election has deprived America s Democrats of the 60 votes needed to pass health care reform and other legislation, and it has changed American politics at least for the moment.

Holmes accepted defeat with his customary grace.

Disunity made the Arab defeat almost inevitable.

Germany's plan was to quickly defeat the French.

William Slim, Defeat Into Victory , London Cassell, 1956.

Only freedom and democracy can ultimately defeat terrorism.

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The French left, represented by the Socialists, has suffered its third consecutive defeat in a presidential election. Given the erosion of the right s power and Sarkozy s not very attractive personality, the road was wide open for the Socialists to win.

Yet, according to the polls, she is the only left leaning candidate who looks able to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, the current Interior Minister and odds on favorite to be the center right s standard bearer in the presidential election next May.

Although this election was accompanied by far less violence than the previous presidential vote in 2007, the opposition candidate Raila Odinga s second consecutive defeat has only re enforced his supporters fears that they are once again being cheated out of power.

The Roma, and Europe, have suffered a great defeat.

It has shown that it can defeat Georgia s army.

The Serbs suffered defeat in the Battle of Kosovo.

But, following the overwhelming defeat of the overtly pro Russia candidate Nino Burjanadze in the recent presidential election, the ruling Georgian Dream party decided to stay the Euro Atlantic course, particularly as Georgia s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions remain under Russian occupation.

ISTANBUL Nearly a century ago, in 1919, John Maynard Keynes analyzed the economic consequences of the peace following Germany s defeat in World War I. To be sure, the consequences of Germany s general election on September 22 will not be nearly as momentous.

After Napoleon's defeat, in 1815, the region returned to Austria.

This is powerful stuff, and dwarfs the narrow technocratic instincts of Mrs. Clinton, whose schoolgirl approach to the campaign has justly earned her defeat after defeat in the primaries.

Ferguson s cause is American neo conservatism, coupled with a relentless aversion to Keynes and Keynesians. His latest defense of fiscal austerity came immediately after the United Kingdom s recent election, when he wrote in the Financial Times that, Labour should blame Keynes for their defeat.

The comprehensive defeat of the Islamist parties that sought to take Bangladesh away from its democratic and secular roots, and which had sought in 1971 to impose Urdu as a national language and suppress Bengali language and culture, is the real story of the election.