Sentence examples for certainly lost it from inspiring English sources

If Armstrong did not win the Tour here, Jan Ullrich and a host of other contenders certainly lost it.

But elsewhere in the province the separatist Bloc Québécois blocked any Conservative advance, even though independence never surfaced as an issue during the campaign.If Mr Harper did not quite win the election outright, the Liberals certainly lost it.

NEARLY three weeks after a bitterly disputed election, President Mwai Kibaki (left), who almost certainly lost it, is defiantly refusing to compromise, let alone bow out, in the hope that time is on his side and that the fury of the thwarted opposition, led by Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement, will gradually subside.

He needs to inspire his player to rediscover that definition, because they have certainly lost it somewhere, just like they lost Saturday's game, slowly, painfully.

But perhaps the most intriguing political story here concerns not who will gain power but who will almost certainly lose it: Austria's self-destructing right-wing Freedom Party and Jörg Haider, its once magnetic but now increasingly marginalized -- some analysts say irrelevant -- leader.

"These are days where you can't win the Tour, but you can certainly lose it," said Lance Armstrong, who is 18th, 2 30 back.

If not, there must be a candidate with the necessary number of nominations who represents mainstream Labour aspirations; and we should be settling now - not later - the programme for a change of direction that can win us the next general election, when carrying on as we are will certainly lose it.

You can't win it in the first week but you can certainly lose it.

If Sinn Féin succeeded in a call for a border poll tomorrow, Sinn Féin would almost certainly lose it.

But if Fox hasn't lost its anti-Obama edge, it has certainly lost its distinctiveness.

South Africa has certainly lost its reputation and practically all the gains of the Mandela era" [ 28].