Sentence examples for missing outright from inspiring English sources

A13 Brazilian Prepares for Runoff After narrowly missing outright victory in presidential elections on Sunday, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers Party predicted that he would triumph in the Oct. 27 runoff against José Serra, the government's candidate.

Looking out the window as my flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh I was greeted with the somewhat disconcerting sight of taxiways under construction; large chunks of pavement were missing outright.

Tabaré Vázquez, a former president, just missed outright victory in the first round, held on October 26th.

The soccer stuff seems more problematic, because goals are so uncommon that to miss them outright changes the game completely.

Should Mr. Rudd miss an outright victory but garner more than 30 votes in the first round, Mr. Abjorensen said, he would likely wage an insurgent campaign from the backbench to garner support for a second and decisive challenge.

82.Rb3?! Larsen misses an outright win: 82.Nd7+!

Additionally, forgeries, secret marriages, invalid divorces, missing heirs, and outright fraud are all possible even with great care being taken.

At the same time, since a division winner is seeded higher than the wild cards, non-division winners may end up playing a road game against a team with an inferior record, or may end up outright missing the playoffs.

People who have not lived in societies where such freedoms are lacking if not outright missing assume that their freedoms, which they otherwise take for granted, are part of the natural order of things.

Sometimes they lose outright.

The First Kansas lost 117 men, either killed outright or missing and presumed dead.