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The Senate defeated a plan to restrict U.S. steel imports.
His expansionism brought the bulk of Ionia under Lydian rule, but also resulted in conflict with the advancing Persians in the east, where he was roundly defeated.
In an analysis of Blair's "new internationalism" on its editorial page, Le Monde of Paris described it Friday as "a kind of humanitarian Wilsonism that wouldn't be limited to the right of peoples to self-determination that Woodrow Wilson wanted to impose on the defeated European empires after World War I ; it defends the rights of man, the rights of minorities, and cultural and religious freedoms."
The BJP defeated Congress in the general elections of May 1996, winning the largest number of seats in Parliament.
In 1995, he and congressional Democrats defeated a House Republican bill to penalize plaintiffs for frivolous lawsuits and to impose "loser pays" rules.