“This condition is known as the defeasance because it defeats or undoes the bond.”

“It does look as if it is to aid the taxpayer though, does it not, because it is then subject to defeasance, if you like, under itself.”

“However, a defeasance is not a permitted remedial action if it does not satisfy the 10 year limitation on defeasances.”

“The undefeated champion is hailed as the ultimate defeater in the world of professional boxing.”

“He is not going to be the defeater in that district no matter what happens.”

“European colonialists started eyeing the airplane as a potential defeater of colonial peoples and enforcer of colonial authority.”

“However, this is just the inevitable defeasibility of any form of inference that depends on background empirical presuppositions.”

“In the MMR case, however, people do not want to hear about defeasibility and inductive probability.”

“See also Makinson 1993 for a sweeping discussion of defeasibility and the place of deontic conditionals in this context.”

“The defeatedness in his eyes spoke volumes about the crushing disappointment and downfall he had experienced.”

“Fresh from his defeat of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William of Normandy has returned home in triumph.”

“His defeat at the final hurdle was a bitter pill to swallow.”

“Evidence is ordinarily regarded as conclusive, not when it eliminates every conceivable defeater, but when it eliminates all relevant defeaters.”

“In identifying defeaters that our evidence must eliminate if we are to claim knowledge, the more we prescind from practical considerations, the wider we cast our net.”