Sentence examples for defeat back from inspiring English sources

Once Hingis broke for 3-2, she never let the 25-year-old Martinez, whose body language signaled imminent defeat, back into the match.

In 1997 the Welsh yes vote represented a remarkable 30% increase in positive votes compared with the four-to-one referendum defeat back in 1979.

"I think that there will be some comparisons there between the murderous ideology that we were -- that we joined together to defeat back in World War II and the murderous ideology that we're working to defeat today," McClellan said.

Cerrone is allowing himself to look ahead to a bout with McGregor given he is "100 per cent confident" that he will beat Dos Anjos despite his defeat back in August 2013.

But then there's that opening Six Nations defeat back in 2013, which acted as our springboard eventually to win that year's Six Nations, as well as losses in Dublin in 2010 and 2014.

Tal Ben Haim had a poor game against Croatia in our 4-3 home defeat back in November, but he is doing well against top strikers week in and week out.

Until Soderling beat Nadal and Federer, Wilander was the only player to defeat back-to-back defending champions at the French Open, beating Yannick Noah in 1984 and Ivan Lendl in 1985.

Then followed a bit of a battering in South Africa, and further defeats back home to Australia and South Africa again.

She limped, embarrassed and defeated, back to the main museum building, to take one more look at the Nam June Paik installation at the entrance.

The wobbly Congress-led coalition government, wounded by recent state-election defeats, backed down, in one of several U-turns in the finance bill published this week (see article).

The province are hot favourites to do so this season, though, after defeating back-to-back champions Saracens 30-19 in Sunday's quarter-final at Aviva Stadium.