Sentence examples for avoiding winning from inspiring English sources

Suggesting that the club's abysmal recent record of just 10 wins since the start of 2012 can be traced directly to the period five years ago when the club was accused of deliberately avoiding winning matches to secure prized priority draft picks is drawing a long bow, but when a highly paid premiership coach talks people listen.

So I set out to do love justice and avoid winning the Bad sex in fiction award.

Welcome to a contest some of the top-tier candidates for president seem eager to avoid winning: Who can show the most robust fund-raising numbers in the third quarter, which ends on Friday at midnight?

Let them host it till they're sick of it and start fielding pop groups dressed as supermarket check-out assistants or Scooch-esque holiday reps in a bid to avoid winning altogether.

To avoid winning too fast, we should invade France during the short window where the French Army is not engaged in contract negotiations, job actions, or strikes.

Avoiding wins of any kind is a rather strange concept in sports.

Remember, point A to point B will attain win-win and avoid win-lose, while A to C may bring lose-lose or lose-win at best.

On the opening day two men had been swept overboard, a catastrophic capsize narrowly avoided, the winning boat damaged but able to continue, and the losing boat limping home marked the opening day in San Francisco.

[A18.] Delta to Issue More Shares Delta Air Lines, which is seeking to avoid bankruptcy, won approval to issue up to 75 million common shares.

This one, winner of eight Tony awards and based on a 2006 low-budget movie by John Carney that I have deliberately avoided seeing, wins you over with its simplicity, charm and air of sweet melancholy.

Most experts agree on the motives for lying: avoid punishment, win admiration, avoid embarrassment, exert power.