1.   The chances are that Mr de la Rua will manage to defeat efforts to overturn his Decrees.

2.   The English-speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language.

3.   Already this session, Fowler has helped defeat an effort to allow mechanical billboards with the ever-changing messages to be placed closer together.

4.   And Friday, they defeated an effort that would have forced an end to debate on the bill.

5.   But advocates of Armenia rounded up the votes to defeat the effort, and legislative aides expect no follow-up measure in either chamber any time soon.

6.   Earlier, it defeated an effort by conservationists to require auto manufacturers to increase fuel efficiency of cars and trucks.

7.   He has said, for example, that he is proudest of defeating several efforts to enact a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

8.   Hundt also helped defeat efforts to write technical standards for digital TV that met the needs of broadcasters but not the computer industry.

9.   In response, chief executives have started an effort to answer their critics and still defeat efforts at systemic change.

10.   Iowa Catholic Bishops may have helped defeat an effort to reinstate the death penalty in their state earlier this year by their strong opposition.