Sentence examples for and trounced by a from inspiring English sources

I've watched all of Jack's pet economic theories (which I imbibed from Jack and others) tested and trounced by a reality far too intricate for any one ideology to correctly describe let alone "fix".

"The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature," written by Rand in the years after "Atlas Shrugged" and trounced by critics, shows her to be not only a poor reader but also poorly read.

Politically, alpha males have been having a hard time of it for a while now, war vet and all-American hero John McCain getting trounced by a law student from Hawaii in 2008 and Colonel Gaddafi finding himself on the wrong end of a metal pipe enema after years of poncing about in military outfits with his crew of female bodyguards.

But Half.Com, a site it bought that sells used books and such at fixed prices, is being trounced by a copycat offering by Amazon.

The result: A 10-term congressman and founding member of the centrist Blue Dog coalition was trounced by a newcomer, Matt Cartwright, a Scranton lawyer who ran hard against Mr. Holden's moderate voting record.

The firm's earnings were trounced by a $9.4 billion write-down to its subprime and other mortgage-related holdings.

Promisingly, the report urges regional reports and peer reviews – nothing annoys a leader (or wins press coverage) like being trounced by a neighbour in a league table.

But Mrs Clinton was trounced by a man who grasped that people wanted to feel part of something bigger.

Thirty years ago, Jim Callaghan's useless Labour government was trounced by a certified snatcher of children's milk.

More common are promising molecules that flunk clinical trials and so earn no return at all, or drugs that shine for a few months before being trounced by a better pill from a rival firm.

A second Oregon proposal, to require the labeling of food products that contain genetically altered ingredients, was trounced by a similar margin.