Sentence examples for knockout from inspiring English sources

"I know that that this means to offer the right hand of friendship to keep the left hand free to deliver the knockout blow to break Britain apart.

Turning its second club competition back into a straight knockout would probably help alleviate the boredom and ennui.

Arsenal have been handed a daunting task to qualify for the Champions League knockout phase after the draw placed them in Group F with last season's runners-up, Borussia Dortmund, Rafael Benítez's Napoli and Marseille.

I still think this is a knockout duet.

At Lord's the England and Wales Cricket Board was unveiling Andrew Strauss as its new director of cricket, a position created to address a slump in the national team's performances in the past 18 months that included a 5-0 Ashes thumping by Australia and a World Cup campaign this year in which the seemingly impossible task of failing to make the knockout stages was achieved with aplomb.

But they set up an unlikely knockout when Laurent Koscielny squeezed home a late header from Santi Cazorla's corner.

Cameron meanwhile didn't deliver the knockout blow activists had bragged about, and had his own moments of amnesia: asked about education, he talked about disciplining pupils rather than the party's supposedly "flagship" free schools policy.

For City, there is real hope that Manuel Pellegrini, the new manager, can finally guide them to the knockout phase after the club's failure to do so in the past two seasons under Roberto Mancini.

Cup competitions were never quite the guaranteed domain of the Old Firm but the demise of Rangers has offered a recent freshness to knockout events.

(Instead, Lee fought Korobov and captured the vacant strap with a sixth-round knockout).

But there is not a mixed grill in sight at The Silly Goat, a main street cafe which offers paleo breakfasts of quinoa and poached eggs, a knockout avocado and eggs on toast and the best coffee of the trip.