That didn't happen, due to their overwhelming defeat in the waters surrounding Midway.

Just then, she was too crushed by overwhelming defeat to be aware of more than her terrible personal failure.

In 1932 Smoot went down to overwhelming defeat as a result of the democratic landslide.

The memory of China's overwhelming defeat was too close to be ignored.

To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure in some undertaking will soon follow.

Recent polls indicate that with elections only six months away, the Socialists are heading for an overwhelming defeat.

What else does one call a dictatorship that refuses to give up power after it suffers overwhelming electoral defeat?

The Southern senators suffered an overwhelming defeat, 31 to 66, in the main vote to table the measure.

Democrats and Republicans attributed the measure's overwhelming defeat to a coalition motivated by a variety of reasons.

The Democrats began the repeal effort after their overwhelming defeat in the November election.