Clay was worried that his compromise might be defeated by northern votes.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Always chosen as a candidate when sure to be defeated.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

to defeat terrorists. "The forces of terrorism in our region pose a grave threat to the entire civilized world, and have to be defeated,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Mousavi also said his movement would not be defeated by government attempts to asphyxiate it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

He said: "A man who has once been the candidate of his party -- and defeated -- owes it to his party not to be a candidate again."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

He was said to be the son of an advisor to another defeated presidential candidate, Mohsen Rezaie.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25