| European colonialists started eyeing the airplane as a potential defeater of colonial peoples and enforcer of colonial authority. |
| Evidence is ordinarily regarded as conclusive, not when it eliminates every conceivable defeater, but when it eliminates all relevant defeaters. |
| The most prominent of these was Sultan Saladin, the 12th-century defeater of the Crusaders and liberator of Jerusalem. |
| Even if I defeated myself, I would still exist as the defeater. |
| He is not going to be the defeater in that district no matter what happens. |
| It is true that awareness of disagreement regarding one's moral endorsements may serve as a defeater. |