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The House recently defeated a resolution calling for all Americans to abase themselves before God, but not before some 140 members voted for it.
The ideological spin is that the principled left and principled right (including Justices Thomas and Scalia) defeated the unprincipled center (Chief Justice Rehnquist).
Carey's difficulties began last fall, when he narrowly defeated James Hoffa (son of the Late Unlamented) in the Teamsters presidential election.
It is from here that distant Granada finally fades from view, and the land takes its name from the comments made by the defeated King Boabdil’s mother when he, supposedly, wept while looking back at the city.
The prize exhibit is the full-size copy of the Royal Galley, La Reial, aboard which Don Juan of Austria commanded the fleet that defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.