Word: defeatingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major collaboration--No Child Left Behind--has proved a major disappointment to Kennedy? For this bill, Kennedy delivered Democratic votes in exchange for a promise of funding for education that he feels was not delivered. Kennedy aides say history won't get in the way of this deal. To defeat House opponents, it's Bush's mouth, not his money, that Kennedy needs...
...falling behind. "There is nothing hypothetical about the Soviet military machine," the inaugural 1981 volume said. "Its expansion, modernization, and contribution to projection of power beyond Soviet boundaries are obvious." Of course, the Soviets' key expansion at that time was into Afghanistan, from which they retreated in ignominious defeat...
...passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone for several Democrats who were not present - and, in one amusing absent-minded moment, even for one, Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin...
...well than their parents, or so 60% of French people believe. It's an explosive situation. In the best scenario, it will lead to a rupture of a bankrupt social model. At worst we'll end up with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage...
...Apparently, the fifth time isn’t the charm, either. As the Harvard men’s hockey team has done the past four years, the Crimson failed to get out of the first round of the NCAA tournament, ending its season with a 6-1 defeat to Maine Saturday afternoon at Pepsi Arena. With the loss, the Crimson moved to 0-3 all-time against the Black Bears in the postseason. But unlike the down-to-the-wire contests of 2002 and 2004, Saturday’s game was a blowout. “We were outplayed pretty...