Sentence examples for a devastating defeat for from inspiring English sources

It was a devastating defeat for the Penguins, who to a man felt they should have won the game.

It was a devastating defeat for the Nets, who led for most of the game despite playing again without the injured center Brook Lopez.

Islamic militants have captured Iraq's northern capital, Mosul, in a devastating defeat for the Iraqi government, whose forces fled the city discarding weapons and uniforms.

Leaders of Mr. de la Rúa's unpopular Radical Party also want to avoid an emergency election, which they fear would result in a devastating defeat for them.

Wilkinson's improbable victory was a devastating defeat for the Chinese, who have built a dynasty in women's diving in the last decade.

To Mr. Jeffords, the notion of exchanging existing law for a diaphanous promise represented a "devastating defeat for public health and our environment".

Then, he feared, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Bowles and those worried executives would provide aid and comfort for that position, handing a devastating defeat to Democrats.

O'Donnell's primary victory, for instance, was hailed as proof that Republicans would inevitably nominate Sarah Palin for president, dooming their party to a devastating defeat.

If Arsenal - and more to the point here Wenger - had lost that final, would he have questioned his own appetite to sign on for three more years on the back of such a devastating defeat?

The Islamists knew that this time they faced a devastating defeat.

If the Socialists were to lose Paris, this would signal a devastating defeat.