The bill went down to crashing defeat in both House and Senate.

In August 1994, Hillary Clinton's vaunted health-care reforms went down to crashing defeat in the Senate.

Internazionale (Italy) declined on grounds that the club's Directing Board felt that the team was not "leveled up to such competition" following a crashing defeat to minor Italian side Pro-Patria.

After all, he had suffered a crashing defeat at a critical juncture in his young career- a defeat at the hands of a mere human, no less- and he would need some time to figure out how to make it sound like a victory.

For one thing, Mr. Bush's signature issue this year, a proposal to rewrite the state's tax code and slash local property taxes, arguably the most ambitious tax initiative proposed by a governor in recent years, went down to a crashing defeat in the legislature.

This notion was advanced earlier this week by William Kristol, a Republican theoretician, and later floated by Speaker Newt Gingrich after both realized that the new "revolutionary" Republican Congress was likely to send term limits down to crashing defeat, which could prove deeply embarrassing to the new majority.