Sentence examples for crashing defeat from inspiring English sources

The UK ministers attempting to block a Europe-wide suspension of the neonicotinoid insecticides increasingly linked to serious harm in bees are heading for a crashing defeat.

On its face, the goal of an early Labour return to 10 Downing Street may not be an impossible reach, despite the deep popular disaffection for the party after 13 years in power and its crashing defeat in the May election.

But plans in the new Criminal Justice Bill to drop juries in such trials have been stymied by a crashing defeat in the House of Lords.Two previous home secretaries, Michael Howard and Jack Straw, had already tried and failed to curb the right to jury trials.

It went down to crashing defeat.

The ultimate pal for Wall Street and big money in the Democratic Party may fall to a crashing defeat: Rahm Emanuel is in real trouble.

After listening to Schatz ramble on and on about "the goat saga its wild speculations, curious revelations, crashing defeats," his therapist finally advised the couple to "take a year to explore the goat world … have adventures, take photographs, record our thoughts and at the end, if we made it, we could decide whether devoting our lives to agriculture was really the answer".

If she agrees to extend aid quickly to Greece a voters' backlash back home may send her party crashing to defeat in regional elections set for May 9th.

Invoking the tragedy that left 3,000 dead and stoking fears of further attacks was enough to send the Democrats crashing to defeat.

The message to his colleagues was clear: reinstate me as leader, and you could still win the election, due in the second half of 2013, instead of crashing to defeat, as polls now suggest you will do under Julia Gillard.The tactic failed spectacularly.

The outcome was, of course, important for its political and economic implications for the island, split from the mainland since Chiang Kai-shek led his KMT regime there after crashing to defeat in the Chinese civil war in 1949.

She then did much the same for Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans) before finally crashing to defeat at the hands of the Roman general Suetonius somewhere in the Midlands (no one is quite sure where).