Sentence examples for lost a campaign from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lynch was always self-effacing, accepting blame when he lost a campaign or debate and deflecting praise when he won.

Chris Heagarty, a Democrat who lost a campaign in Wake County that year, told New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, "For an individual to have so much power is frightening.

In Morecambe, the Momentum-backed Erica Lewis lost a campaign to be Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate in a bitter selection battle that triggered an official complaint to the party.

He left Congress in 1977, lost a campaign for the State Senate in 1978 and then a bid for governor in 1982, in which he ran as a libertarian and supported legalizing marijuana, in direct conflict with his former party's position.

"No one in the history of American politics has ever won or lost a campaign on this issue," Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, declared in February on the eve of the Senate vote that failed to end debate on campaign finance legislation and probably blocked further Senate action on the matter this year.

This week's other offended parties include the Corpus Christi church in Morningside Heights, New York, who lost a campaign to prevent a local street being named after the late standup George Carlin; and the American media, playing at outrage because actor Chevy Chase used the "N-word" in a "rant" on the set of the sitcom Community.

"As I said a year ago," he told me, "I would rather lose a campaign than a war".

Microsoft wins a challenge, but loses a campaign.

"He would rather lose a war than lose a campaign," Mr. McCain said of his rival.

For my part, I would rather lose a campaign than a war".

After losing a campaign for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Ralph Yarborough in 1964, Bush was elected in 1966 to a safely Republican seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.