Sentence examples for losing in order to from inspiring English sources

Were we willing to risk losing in order to field a team of older, rounder, healthier gymnasts?

Others expressed shame that their team had subverted the rules — losing in order to play a weaker opponent in the next round — in the hopes of winning another medal.

It was more important for the future to lose, in order to win more.

It looked as if he was prepared to lose in order to win.

Kansas City's victory was fruitless because they needed both Houston and Baltimore to lose in order to advance.

A joke was making the rounds in Freetown about how many fingers one would be willing to lose in order to go to America.

"As a jealous Croatian neighbor I am praying for the Slovenians to lose in order to avoid eruptions of exuberance such as these," gnashes Zlatko Ceraj-Ceric.

The question took on added emphasis in light of the Badminton World Federation's expulsion of eight Olympians for trying to lose in order to obtain more favorable matchups later on.

Guillaume Désanges, a curator working with her on the show, said that in a world that seems to be increasingly chaotic, the show celebrates "the paradox of getting lost in order to find your way".

The combination of will and chance, of getting lost in order to unexpectedly find, had brought me close to Aura in this new way, one in which she was both present and absent, both asserting a permanence and letting go.

That was essentially how the farce of badminton's day of shame, when four women's doubles pairs were found guilty of trying to lose in order to earn an easier quarter-final tie, came about.