Sentence examples for does not clinch a from inspiring English sources

Granted, a lead of two games to one does not clinch a series.

Now, he said, Israel may get the planes even if it does not clinch a deal.

West after July 7, but they did not clinch a playoff spot until the penultimate day of the regular season.

Giants Coach Jim Fassel said he was not upset that his team did not clinch a playoff spot Sunday, even though the Giants came close.

In July, Staley said operations might need to be strengthened in Ireland if the government did not clinch a passport deal that gave access to the remaining 27 EU countries.

Most Giants players arrived in their locker room today neither consumed by the myriad playoff possibilities still before them, nor disappointed that they did not clinch a playoff spot Sunday.

Even though the Mariners are the wild-card team and didn't clinch a postseason berth until the last game of the season on Sunday, they have more postseason experience than the White Sox.

Instead of easily winning the Western Conference, which seemed like a very real possibility during the preseason, the Lakers didn't clinch a postseason berth until the last day of the season, and by then the team was too depleted and tired to be much of a threat.

They were 28 victories shy, didn't clinch a playoff spot until the last day of the regular season and were completely powerless against San Antonio as the line to the trainer's room got steadily longer.

Yet the "not a dossier" does not clinch the argument, as my colleagues Ewen MacAskill (see 12.10pm) and Rafael Behr (see 1.18pm) point out.

Again, this observation does not clinch the argument for federal investments in a restructured G.M. — that would depend on the terms, mechanisms, goals, timetables, costs, and risks of both action and inaction.