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  • Defeat this common enemy.
  • Add to this scotland's propensity to swing away from labor in by-elections and the result was one of its most humiliating defeats.
  • We have just suffered our second successive landslide election defeat.
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  • Beckham revealed his decision at england's final news conference in germany in the wake of their world cup quarter-final defeat by portugal.
  • Defeat from the jaws of victory.
  • Defeated foe.
  • Malta's tony brincat inflicted a rare defeat on the 2000 champion joe delaney.
  • On the plus side swansea at least managed a result after five consecutive league defeats.
  • That heartbreak followed the disappointment of narrowly missing a wembley appearance after an fa trophy semi-final replay defeat to dagenham & redbridge.
  • A strategy to defeat terrorism let me go back for a moment to frame the overall strategy we have been employing to defeat terrorism.
  • Schumacher has already effectively conceded defeat saying that he doesn't want to go to brazil effectively pinning his hopes on an alonso retirement.
  • Or the one where they suffered an embarrassing defeat whilst being completely humiliated?
  • They go to west london eager to erase the pain of last saturday's 3-0 derby day defeat at everton.
  • Goodbrand came out fast, obviously looking to avenge the defeat a couple of weeks ago at the noble art show.
  • After their disastrous defeat, newcastle and eythin fled to scarborough and sailed to the continent, fearing that all was lost.
  • Harold wilson's governments also suffered some famous by-election defeats - in oldham, dudley, glasgow and walthamstow - in the 1960s.
  • Only in oldham did the bnp suffer a crushing defeat.
  • This led to the disaffiliation of the union from the party and electoral defeat for some of the union's leading figures.
  • Would you let your family suffer for the fact that you were too proud to admit defeat?

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