This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene ( 426 ) which crippled its resources.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

Conversely, some of the Allied infantry who had just dealt a crushing defeat to the French at the Battle of Waterloo fully expected to have to fight again the next day ( at the Battle of Wavre ).

England's crushing defeat by France, the dominant naval power, in naval engagements culminating in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst for England's rebuilding itself as a global power.

On 24 October 69 the forces of Vitellius and Vespasian clashed at the Second Battle of Bedriacum, which ended in a crushing defeat for the armies of Vitellius.

The loss of the battle standard, or aquila, was indicative of a crushing defeat and a serious affront to Roman national pride.

Terrified after his crushing defeat, Alfonso recalled El Cid.

He again fought against France during the Second and Third Coalition, when after meeting crushing defeat at Austerlitz, he had to agree to the Treaty of Pressburg, weakening the Austrian Empire and reorganizing Germany under a Napoleonic imprint that would be called the Confederation of the Rhine.

The battle of Dunbar was a crushing defeat for the Scottish Covenanters

In February 1943, the crushing German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad produced a crisis in the regime.

This is said to have been Dole's most crushing political defeat and to have contributed to the Republican loss of control of the Senate.

His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port – at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain – but at the time the public were disappointed that he had lost more ships ( mainly due to dangerous ammunition-handling procedures on British battlecruisers ) and had not won a victory as crushing as Trafalgar.

They first invaded Poland, and finally Hungary, culminating in the crushing defeat of the Hungarians in the Battle of Mohi.

The Livonian leader Kaupo was killed in battle near Viljandi ( Fellin ) on 21 September 1217, but the battle was a crushing defeat for the Estonians, whose leader Lembitu was also killed.

Rome also exhibited an impressive ability to draft army after army of conscripts after each crushing defeat by Hannibal, allowing them to recover from the defeats at Cannae and elsewhere and keep Hannibal cut off from aid.

When the Klingon forces suffer a crushing defeat, Worf agrees to Nero's demand to board a shuttle and come on board the Narada.

* 1526 – The Ottoman army occupies Buda after the crushing Hungarian defeat in the Battle of Mohács.

War ensued, leading to a crushing defeat for Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum in northern Italy.

* The Second Anglo-Maratha War ( 1803 – 1805 ) is fought between the Maratha Peshwa on one side and minor chieftains of the Maratha Confederacy Sindhia, Bhonsle and Holkar on the other resulting in a crushing defeat of the rebel chieftains and the breakup of the Maratha confederacy.

* July 21 – Rif War – Battle of Annual: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the hands of Muhammad Ibn ' Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi.

* August 28 – August 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Bull Run: Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.

* April 10 – Battle of Magdala: A British-Indian task force inflicts 700 deaths and a crushing defeat on the army of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia ; the British and Indians suffer 30 wounded, 2 of whom die subsequently.

* April 14 – Swedish forces under Johan Baner inflict a crushing defeat on the Imperial army at the Battle of Chemnitz.

Despite ensuring that President Ter-Petrosyan's side won the disputed 1995 election, and crushing street protests against the manipulated results, Sargsyan abandoned him in late 1997 and switched his support to prime minister Robert Kocharyan, who soon took over as president.

Mining started in 1997 and is again a conventional truck and shovel operation followed by crushing, pre treatment and stacking before acid leaching.

On September 18, 1988 the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC or na wa ta ), led by the army Chief of Staff General Saw Maung ( d. July 1997 ) took over after crushing what is now known as the failed 8888 Uprising of August 8, 1988.

The band released Nemesis in 1997 ; Jeffries praised Lombardo's " crushing drum work " which takes center stage on the album.

Although the club had made some promising signings, such as Rodney Howe and Robbie Kearns, the crushing $ 10 million debt that hung over the club ( from having to pay the airfares for all visiting teams ) at the end of the season led to Super League axing the Perth Reds on 1 October 1997.

SLORC was formed when the Burmese Armed Forces, commanded by General Saw Maung ( later self-promoted to ' Senior General ' Saw Maung, died July 1997 ), seized power on 18 September 1988 crushing the ' Four Eights Uprising '.

Tallis returned to the game with the Broncos for the 1997 Super League season and was the most dominant forward in the competition, which culminated in Brisbane's crushing 26 – 8 win over the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the Telstra Cup grand final.

First published in 1947 in the aftermath of the crushing Conservative election defeat of 1945, and aimed at the mass market and the layman, it presented a well-written and coherent case for Conservatism.

The Coalition suffered a crushing defeat in the 1943 election.

The bill did not become law before the provincial election of May 1863, however, and it was largely due to the bill's unpopularity that Archibald's Liberals were dealt a crushing defeat.

The Labor Party suffered a crushing defeat in the 1966 election, which Menzies ' successor Harold Holt fought on the Vietnam War issue.

In the wake of the crushing of reformist protest against the 2009 election results, few if any reformist candidates were allowed by the Guardian Council to run.

However, in the 2007 general election Dr Smith and his party suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Virgin Islands Party, retaining only two seats ( one of whose was Dr Smith's ) out of 13 elected seats.

In 2001, after a crushing defeat in the general election ( only 2. 3 % of the votes and no seats ), the Radicals re-organised themselves as " Italian Radicals " and elected young Daniele Capezzone as secretary.

He defeated former City Council-At-Large Diane Carnes in a crushing victory that helped win the local Democratic Party majority control of City Council with the election of new Council members Council-At-Large & Napoleon Cross Council-At-Large.

The U. S. Senate election of 1932 coincided with Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt's crushing defeat of incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.

Politically, it caused the resignation of premier John Bannon in 1992, and the crushing electoral defeat of the South Australian Labor government at the 1993 election.

Re-elected in 1958 with an increased majority, Fisher was one of only a handful of CCFers elected in the general election that returned a crushing Progressive Conservative majority government, led by John Diefenbaker.

After the crushing defeat of his SPD in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Chancellor Schröder declared the intention of going for a general election as soon as possible, avoiding the completion of the regular term – which was to run until September 2006 – by the device of failing a Motion of Confidence vote, which took place on 1 July 2005.

After their crushing defeat in 1992, Residents Rally fell apart, and had ceased to exist by the 1995 election.

He quit his show on the station on 30 June 2009 in protest at the Islamic Republic of Iran regime crushing dissent after the Iranian presidential election held on 12 June 2009.

After the crushing defeat of the DPJ in the 2005 snap election and the resignation of DPJ leader Katsuya Okada, the elected representatives of the party met to choose a new leader.