Sentence examples for poor defeat from inspiring English sources

"That was a poor defeat, but he has had four league victories on the bounce, so you never know," Collins added.

A desperately poor defeat in his native Norway to Molde, coupled with Kris Commons's rant at the coaching staff after his second-half substitution, leaves him under pressure.

Stoke had won four matches in a row before a poor defeat at home to Watford at the weekend, but the Potters are the kind of club who should be taking this competition seriously.

The Chilean manager suffered a terrible week with a poor defeat to Barcelona in the first-leg of the Champions League last-16 on Tuesday followed by a crucial defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

"In the end it's a defeat and a poor defeat because our play warranted a better result than that".

A hundred years ago, the South was a poor, defeated, overwhelmingly rural and agricultural region.

For the poor, defeated workers struggling to organise themselves, Blackpool is right.

I seem to have a gusto for life, and while I might see myself as this poor defeated person, I still obviously have this ability to keep going.

Furthermore, it means commercial microcredit institutions are subject to demands for ever-increasing profits, which can only come in the form of higher interest rates charged to the poor, defeating the very purpose of the loans.

Part of the thrill of West Indian cricket in its days of greatness was the gravity-defying spectacle of a group of islands with a population of a few million, most of them poor, defeating cricket powers like Australia, England and India.

"We've had some really poor defeats.