Word: defeated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Reed's defeat, Democrats see reason to hope that their message about the G.O.P.'s "culture of corruption" is helping them toward their goal of taking back Congress in November. But that's wishful thinking. With the exception of those few candidates tied directly to Abramoff--Representative Bob Ney in Ohio and Senator Conrad Burns in Montana--it's unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election...
...media speculation about Condit's role, D.C. police said repeatedly that he was not a suspect. The controversy still cost him his 30-year political career. The Democrat lost his 2002 re-election bid and moved with his wife to Arizona in 2003. "He's a survivor, but [the defeat] crushed him," son Chad told Larry King last year. The Condits filed--and settled--defamation lawsuits against publications including the National Enquirer. Today Condit runs a couple of businesses, including a Baskin-Robbins--and avoids reporters...
...Israelis can defeat every single one of their current or potential enemies, but in doing so, they simply enlarge the number of those increasingly determined to use force in resisting Israel. In the long run, Israel would then face the same dilemma that France faced in Algeria, be worn down and eventually expelled. That is the historical reality that can only be ignored at considerable strategic risk...
...take office under the shadow of suspicion, and might struggle to find the support necessary to govern effectively from a congress in which he lacks a majority. Also, Obrador's supporters have taken to the street in the hundreds of thousands, and appear in no mood to accept a defeat they insist was fraudulent...
...gamble pays off, and Hizballah is crying uncle a week from now, the U.S. will have vindicated itself in the eyes of allies, and inflicted a stinging defeat on the likes of Iran and Syria. If not, the Bush Administration may find itself drawn into some hitherto unthinkable diplomatic minuets to untangle a dangerous mess in southern Lebanon...