The Putin crowd is said to be haunted in particular by the Ukrainian elections last year, when the Ukrainian president chose a successor who was then defeated soundly by the opposition.

An attempt made to introduce the subject of the Spanish colonies was defeated by the opposition of Britain.

The ruling Hungarian Socialist Party was heavily defeated by the opposition conservative Hungarian Civic Union and other conservative parties.

The series starts in the wake of a general election in which the incumbents have been defeated by the opposition to which Jim Hacker MP belongs.

She tried to push through a new Constitution that would have given Tamils greater political autonomy, but it was defeated in Parliament by the opposition.

A bill to authorise it was presented to Parliament in 1793, but was defeated by the combined opposition of the Lancaster Canal and the Duke of Bridgewater.

March 25 - Stephen Harper's conservative government is defeated on a non-confidence vote by the opposition.

He promised to resign and fight a new election if his referendum was defeated by the Conservative opposition, which opposes giving equal rights to blacks.

In the election on 5 September 1914 the government was defeated by the opposition, Andrew Fisher's Australian Labor Party, and the bill was not pursued.

Kilcormac-Killoughey were defeated by the same opposition in controversial circumstances at the semi-final stages of the championship in 2010.