Sentence examples for managed to snatch from inspiring English sources

Nobody ever managed to snatch the prize.

After all, Chevron, an American oil firm, managed to snatch UNOCAL from CNOOC's jaws.

The Gaels may have won, 60-57, but Lawless had managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

As one Ukrainian paper put it the government managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (again).

The attack came one day after some inmates at the prison managed to snatch rifles from guards and escaped.

In that case, I believe, the chief justice started out writing a majority opinion, but Justice Breyer managed to snatch the majority out from under him and the chief published his intended majority opinion as a dissent.

Anna still manages to snatch those occasional moments of solitary communing with nature that make her an inspirational wilderness guide.

When setting off to feed on other flying insects, dragonflies manage to snatch their targets in midair more than 95 percent of the time, often wolfishly consuming the fresh meat on the spur without bothering to alight.

But I'm lucky if I manage to snatch a hurried conversation with my TAs once a week – and I only manage that because I try hard to make time for these crucial dialogues.

2.00pm BST ID8858624 asks: Speaking hypothetically, we fail to win the group, and after losing in the play-offs, where Roy Hodgson's team manages to snatch failure from the jaws of victory, who could we install as new manager?

Paul Rees Castrogiovanni: They made it look like I went for the money Castrogiovanni and sport's great rants Leicester 25-21 Toulon As we watched Sale hammer away at Saracens until the dying seconds, their European campaign all but over even if they did manage to snatch the win, discussion inevitably turned to the contrast with Montpellier, who capitulated at home to Bath the night before.