This was proved again this month in Karnataka State, where the party lost dismally in spite of Mr Modi's campaigning spree.
To lose dismally at home to Newport Gwent Dragons and then turn over the league's second-placed team within a few days suggests a side with a split personality and the former Ireland outside-half is desperate to instil more consistency.
Because of political infighting between Liberal Republicans and Democrats, the physically ailing Greeley was no match for the "Hero of Appomattox" and lost dismally in the popular vote.
Poor Mr F, one feels; what a dismally lost soul.
Trump did dismally with millennial voters ― except for white millennials, who voted for him over Clinton 48-43 ― and he barely eked out an electoral college win while losing the popular vote.
If it were to disappear, politics could become more contentious again.Labour in America would have lost out to capital even more dismally except for soaring pay among a small group of high earners, according to a study in 2013 by Michael Elsby, of the University of Edinburgh, Bart Hobijn, of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Aysegul Sahin, of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
"Lost in La Mancha" winds down quietly and dismally, as the plug is yanked on Gilliam's movie.
There are many reasons why the stockmarket is performing so dismally, but one is that investors have lost confidence in the political and monetary authorities.
For example, he recounts the 1984 re-election campaign, when his father performed dismally as he floundered through his responses and was lost for words in his first debate with his opponent, Walter F. Mondale.
Symptomatic of a long-term trend of eroding job security, with companies reluctant to hire full-time positions, temping has absorbed many people who lost regular jobs as well as younger workers who are finding their post-school job options dismally narrow.
