Sentence examples for firm defeat from inspiring English sources

Celtic's manager, who was not likely to remain in office for next season before this Old Firm defeat, is now operating on seriously borrowed time.

The former Manchester City, Newcastle United and QPR player was banished from the club's training base last month after a furious row with the manager, Mark Warburton, and his team-mate Andy Halliday in which he criticised the team's approach to defending in the wake of their disastrous Old Firm defeat at Celtic Park.

He also helped Skardon Baker, an executive with a downtown L.A. investment firm, defeat an architect who claimed he had been bilked out of $22,500 owed to him for designing a backyard cabana for the financier's Hancock Park home. .

But it must also be said that his tenure also coincided with Rangers' worst-ever run of competitive results and a record string of Old Firm defeats.

Enron, joined by other wealthy companies including Wall Street firms, defeated all efforts to regulate energy trading, says Michael Greenberger, a former CFTC official, now a law professor at the University of Maryland.

Sale stood firm to defeat Wasps and earn their second Premiership win of the season.

But the bipartisan coalition also held firm and defeated an amendment by Mr. Grassley that would have required the Homeland Security secretary to certify that the southern border was secure for six months before any undocumented immigrants could receive legal status.

Didi, the firm that defeated Uber in China and has backed Ola, Taxify and many others, has also been busy moving into new markets.

(His firm's gravest defeat came in a smuggling case — targeting Uncle Henry — that was brought by the United States government in 1910; the Duveens quickly swung a loan, arranged by J. P. Morgan, to pay the judgment of $1.2 million).

Third, the BP vote – and that at Smith & Nephew, the other defeated firm – was merely advisory.

According to the Montgomery Advertiser, they brought on seven lobbying firms to help defeat the legislation, not to mention such industry trade groups as one with the delightfully oxymoronic name of Borrow Smart Alabama.