Sentence examples for defeats to take from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, India condemned a weakened Australia to back-to-back defeats to take the Twenty20 series with a 27-run victory in front of a 58,787 crowd at the MCG in Melbourne.

It is highly rare for those defeated to take such joy from the identity of the winner.

Callaghan had stayed on after the election defeat "to take the shine off the ball", as he said, in preparation for a Healey leadership.

For a man who famously walked off the course during the 2004 European Open complaining of "demons", this must have been a hard defeat to take.

They are going to be big rivals as we try to retain the title so it was a tough defeat to take.

That Liverpool were at home and needed only to avoid defeat to take the championship conjured shades of 1989, of Michael Thomas, of Brian Moore's remarkably restrained commentary and of Nick Hornby celebrating "the greatest game ever".

The midfielder ended up on the losing side on both occasions but it was the penalty shoot-out heartache in Moscow that was the more difficult defeat to take, with Ballack saying: "It will haunt all of us for ever".

Before the ruling both Facebook and the parents of the girl, whose identity has not been made public, reserved the right in the event of a defeat to take an appeal to Germany's federal court of justice in Karlsruhe.

"It's a tough defeat to take, especially when it's so close.

"It is a tough defeat to take and everybody is disappointed.

"The spirit and energy is back in the team, this is just a hard defeat to take.