Sentence examples for and losing in a from inspiring English sources

This is sport, it's about winning and losing in a ring, in a pool, on a field of play, and that is where it should be settled.

It was a match that illustrated how fine is the line between winning and losing in a mere best-of-five contest.

So now, rather than bestriding the globe, we are competing — and losing — in a geopolitical marketplace alongside the world's other superpowers: the European Union and China.

A month later, he did nothing to dissuade his doubters at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, failing to convert a six-foot, or 1.8-meter, putt to win and losing in a playoff.

In an interview after his pro-am round, Robert Garrigus, who frittered away a victory at the 2010 tour stop in Memphis in a fashion eerily similar to Stanley's — giving back a three-stroke lead on the final hole and losing in a playoff — put it this way: "If you learn from them, they're not failures".

She pursued her political ambitions in 1983, running for Parliament and losing in a Tory district in southeastern England at the same time that Blair, who had lost in his first try a year earlier, was winning his present seat in an old coal-mining Labor stronghold in the northeastern district of Sedgefield.

He ran again in 1998 and lost in a primary.

Otherwise, Mr Obama made a very risky bet and lost in a decisive and humiliating way.

Ms. Halvorson, who is white, challenged Mr. Jackson and lost in a primary election last year.

"We have lost, and lost in a way that you cannot lose when you are top of the league.

Mr. Siegel was a candidate for that office in 2001 and lost in a runoff to Betsy Gotbaum.