Sentence examples for lost pivotal from inspiring English sources

Several House and Senate candidates lost pivotal races after making offensive comments about rape.

Down the stretch, the Jets lost three pivotal players, including Boozer, who sustained a career-changing knee injury.

Last year he lost a pivotal fight at the agency over telephone access fees, and his decision last summer to loosen the rules governing the size and reach of the nation's largest media companies came under heavy assault in Congress.

I'd have just lost a pivotal match — the match that made you understand, even before I did, that I had to change my life — following the death of my best buddy and/or my wife's leaving me for a player so good that it'd be exhilarating when I beat him at the end.

The Rangers lost the pivotal Game 4 of their Stanley Cup playoff series with the Washington Capitals after 32 minutes 36 seconds of overtime on a broken play — a miscommunication between Rangers forward Marian Gaborik and goalie Henrik Lundqvist — that allowed Washington's Jason Chimera to finish a furious comeback.

They have lost some pivotal players.

Once regarded as a unique transition between dinosaurs and birds, scientists say Archaeopteryx has now lost its pivotal place.

The Baltimore Ravens got their first win of the season last week, but may have lost a pivotal member of their depleted receiving corps in the process.

At one point, Powell loses a pivotal defamation suit and his wife (Vanessa Williams as the jazz singer Hazel Scott) in the space of about two minutes.

But after beating Clinton in a half-dozen primaries, but losing in pivotal New York, Brown knew Clinton had the upper hand.

Mr. Bemba, who lost Congo's pivotal presidential election in 2006, is the most senior suspect now in the custody of the court, which holds three other Congolese accused of large-scale human rights violations.