Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's government." By a margin of a single vote, the Commons agreed. Thus last week, in one of the most dramatic episodes in Britain's recent political history, the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan went down to defeat, thereby forcing an early election. The last such sacking took place 55 years ago, when Britain's first Labor government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, lost a similar vote of confidence...
...Middies then broke Chaikovsky's serve and held Miller's to win the match, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, and send the Crimson home with a chilling defeat...
Today's match will mark the first time a Harvard team has ever played Maryland, a result of Fish's beefed-up scheduling program. Perennial contenders in the tough Atlantic Coast Conference, the Terrapins rate as slight favorites to defeat the visiting Crimson...
...connection or resemblance to the tall, coolly patrician Giscard père: "I have the virus of politics and I have had good coaching." Working out of a former butcher shop, he has shaken hands with at least one-third of the district's 6,000 people. A defeat of Communist and Socialist opponents who mock him as a dauphin would make him the youngest elected official in France...
...Chirac, who had convened the emergency parliamentary session in order to embarrass Giscard, was quickly outmaneuvered last week. When the Socialists and Communists called for a no-confidence motion against the coalition government, Chirac was reluctantly forced to support Barre. The leftists, whose family quarrels contributed heavily to their defeat in last year's elections, are still divided. The Communist and Socialist parties could not agree even on the wording of a no-confidence motion, with the result that the two parties produced their own motions...