71.   Such divisiveness has helped lead the party to two crushing electoral defeats and has shown no sign of abating during the current leadership fight.

72.   That was followed by another crushing defeat at the polls suffered by his party in the presidential elections last May.

73.   The agreement caps a crushing defeat for Croatian Serbs following a sweeping three-day offensive by government forces.

74.   The crushing defeat certainly will send Leonard into retirement for good.

75.   The hard-liners have suffered a string of crushing defeats against supporters of moderate President Mohammad Khatami, a middle-ranking cleric who was elected two years ago.

76.   The move also showed how much power the hard-liners still hold, despite a crushing defeat by Khatami supporters in recent legislative elections.

77.   The Movement was a part of an opposition coalition which dealt a crushing defeat to the Socialists, the former Communists, in November presidential elections.

78.   The process should have given Republicans a boost, but ended in crushing defeat for them.

79.   They replaced celebratory, victory-oriented ads that the sponsors had developed before the crushing World Cup defeat.

80.   They were hoping to see him put his crushing defeat at The Players Championship last week behind him with a victory that would get him to Augusta.