Sentence examples for a damaging day from inspiring English sources

For the Rays, it was a damaging day as they missed a chance to move up on Boston in the AL wild-card race.

The prosecution team who had remained silent for much of the final hour admitted privately that it had been a "damaging" day.

Bradford Bulls lost six Super League points and a takeover bid collapsed on another dramatic and damaging day in a crisis that has now been running for almost two years.

American and the Allied Pilots Association declined to release any details of the deal, which must still be ratified by the union's 10,500 members, who last year staged a damaging 10-day "sickout" in a dispute over another acquisition.

George Osborne has prepared the ground for a damaging admission in Wednesday's autumn statement that lower than expected growth means he will breach the second of his fiscal targets, on reducing debt as a proportion of national income by the end of the parliament.

Puzder's hearing has been delayed four times as officials say he hasn't yet completed his committee questionnaire, and he faced a damaging news cycle Monday when he admitted to hiring an undocumented worker as a maid.

Last Tuesday night's extra-time League Cup quarter-final win against Chelsea appeared even more of a damaging irrelevance on a day when, looking anything but sure-footed, Sunderland lost their new found balance.

A damaging 3-2 loss the Saturday after the final to fellow relegation rivals Ipswich looked like spelling the end for Oxford, but a 1-0 win over Everton threw Oxford a lifeline.

The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, survived a damaging leadership battle on Thursday to retain the reins of a divided Labor party heading towards almost certain defeat in elections in September.

Russian television and news agencies reported a damaging surprise attack on Sunday against Russian troops in the town of Gudermes -- which the Kremlin chose last week as Chechnya's new capital -- killing between 5 and 20 soldiers.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban faced the prospect of a damaging leadership rift on Monday when the abrupt dismissal of a senior commander provoked an angry reaction in the militants' ranks, offering the Islamabad government a fresh opportunity to weaken a foe that in recent years has killed thousands of Pakistanis and tried to detonate a crude car bomb in Times Square in 2010.