Will enough headbangers, then, join the opposition parties in the lobbies and defeat the proposal?
Times, Sunday Times
The judge ought to have accorded the commissioners a level of votes which would have defeated the proposals as put at the meeting.
Times, Sunday Times
He agitated for such a change with the legislature, but representatives defeated his proposals.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
But despite our rumblings, we had no chance of defeating the proposal.
The Times Literary Supplement
Environmentalists and neighborhood groups fought and ultimately defeated this proposal.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0