31.   Now the season had ended with a crushing defeat, and his career in New York had ended as well.

32.   The crushing defeat of a universal voucher proposal in California last November drove home the point.

33.   The DLC itself was created by moderate Democrats to bring the party back to the political mainstream after a series of crushing defeats in presidential elections.

34.   The election was a crushing defeat for the PRD.

35.   The measure, if left in the bill, would represent a crushing defeat for environmentalists who have lobbied extensively to protect the pristine refuge from exploration.

36.   The popular press characterized the decision as a crushing defeat for the gun industry.

37.   The place where Matt Gogel endured a crushing defeat became the setting for his first PGA Tour victory.

38.   The Serbs are probably the only people in the world who commemorate a crushing military defeat as their greatest national holiday.

39.   The struggle for a Greater Serbia foundered in the eastern reaches of Croatia, stalemated in Bosnia, and went down to crushing defeat in Kosovo.

40.   The team was rolling, but losses to UCLA and a crushing defeat by Cal knocked them out of Rose Bowl contention.