Sentence examples for lost fair from inspiring English sources

But alas, with Sophie averaging just over three hours a day, I lost fair and square.

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).

And that's very bad in a democracy, because the whole goal of an election is to satisfy the people who lost the election that they lost fair and square and that the candidate who is elected is legitimate.

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.

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".

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.

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.

That may have been a horrible mistake, but it would not have been born of malice nor even partisanship (i.e. letting Trump lose "fair and square" was preferable).

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.