Sentence examples for losing fair from inspiring English sources

Some of these people are ruining the game; I don't mind losing fair and square if there are no daft decisions, but this was ridiculous".

On the contrary, they managed a feat that is almost unthinkable in most of today's erupting autocracies: after succumbing to democracy, they contributed to its legitimacy by becoming candidates for high office — and losing, fair and square.

Re "When Winning Feels a Lot Like Losing" (Fair Game, Dec. 10), in which Gretchen Morgenson described how an investor won her arbitration case but was ordered to pay more in fees than she was awarded in damages: I have served as an arbitrator on NASD panels for over 10 years.

You lost fair and square: "Get over it," as Justice Scalia advised.

"Now they're coming out to California and trying to overturn an election they lost fair and square".

The real Rubin Carter was not robbed of the middleweight boxing title by a racist decision (he lost fair and square).

In the wake of the bribery scandal in Salt Lake City in 1999, China discovered it did not lose fair and square to Sydney, Australia, for the 2000 Games.

And although the BNP has refused to acknowledge that it lost fair and square, its defeat was so massive that protests are unlikely to prove too disruptive in the short term.The new government will have a short honeymoon, trying to raise a poor country's living standards during a global slump.

Here was the laconic, narrow-eyed gunslinger riding into town with revenge in his heart; here the venal railroad director, thumbs tucked into his waistcoat pockets and dollar signs in his eyes; here the ex-slave labourers with hate in theirs – and out on the wild plains, a lost fair beauty stumbling from one mortal peril to another.

We lost fair and square on that day but this was our day and we deserved to win.

"If we had lost fair and square, I would have taken it but to lose it in the way we did - by such a narrow margin after having fought so hard with 14 players for 75 minutes - hurts so much more".