Sentence examples for almost surrendered from inspiring English sources

The Nationals lost the seat of Shepparton to the independent Suzanna Sheed, who achieved a 32.5% swing, and almost surrendered the supposedly safe seat of Morwell to Labor.

They almost surrendered a 36-4 lead, conceding four unanswered tries in quick succession in the second half.

The Exiles beat the Falcons 20-15 athehe Madejski Stadium to move off the bottom of the Premiership, but almost surrendered a 20-point lead.

An army of Aussie followers descended on Royal Ascot, but the Antipodean cheers among the 77,000 crowd turned to gasps as the mare almost surrendered her modern-day record unbeaten run.

And in this unfolding gesture, the figure's moral shakiness is drawn out too – from almost resistance to almost surrender.

He added, "In some ways, by giving so much to the role, almost surrendering to it, she may have gotten more out of the film than anyone else".

His skills at the turntable are his passport through life, until he almost surrenders to an overdose of ecstasy and cocaine.

Wigan continued their hot pursuit of a place in Europe in an extraordinary game that saw them fall behind after two minutes, surge back into a 4-1 leandand then almost surrender it again as Manchester City managed an improbable rally with two late goals.

The verbal truth of the war poems is fascinating in that their poetic music is almost completely surrendered in order to honour the spoken clarity of factual experience.

Before the Olympics he said that he had the gift of focus and that he understood – perhaps even better than the phenomenal Qiu Bo of China, who hadn't been beaten for two years and who, almost unbelievably, surrendered the gold to the American David Boudia on Saturday night – that you could never go beyond the imperative of concentrating utterly on the next time.

Now the residents of Waterbury, Connecticut's fifth-largest city and arguably its most chronically mismanaged, are bracing for the sacrifices that will be involved in having the city's finances almost completely surrendered to a state-run committee for the next five years.