Word: defeat
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...state no longer call them married may make them feel as if something important had been taken away - even if it's hard to define just what was lost. And for many others - the folks who feel most strongly about marriage and most passionately supported the expensive campaign to defeat gay marriage - the issue of nomenclature is only the beginning. They are against not just gay marriage but also gay couples - and especially against government sanctioning of those relationships, no matter what they are called...
...yawning. There's moaning and screaming too. But in the stronger cases, in almost every instance, you'll have the voice. The person will speak in a demonic voice, and they'll say things like, "This person belongs to us," "You have no power over us," "You can't defeat us." They are usually very dramatic in the sense that the person will be screaming at the top of their lungs. There can also be shaking. Picture a person sitting in a chair with their arms sticking straight out, their legs sticking straight out, convulsing. That's common...
...Harvard men’s volleyball team met defeat and victory this weekend with a loss at Princeton and a win at East Stroudsburg. The team, which has struggled on the road, gained its first road win of the season with the 3-0 victory over East Stroudsburg (4-7, 1-4 Hay). In the 3-0 loss to Princeton (7-7), the team showed that it still has areas to improve on. “We’re really happy with that win,” co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “We desperately needed...
...sure, Japan has the capacity to renew itself. It has done so twice in modern times, first after the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century, when a traditional, closed society modernized so thoroughly that by 1905 it was able to defeat a major European power, Russia, in war; and again after 1945, when a new economy was built from the ashes...
...Facing top-ranked Wisconsin in 2007 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the underdog Harvard squad took the Badgers to four excruciating overtimes before finally succumbing to defeat in the 128th minute of play...