Sentence examples for predict defeat from inspiring English sources

Fulfilling them requires something else entirely, an attribute closer to blindness than to inspiration — the refusal to give up when the odds predict defeat, again.

To his own surprise, Cameron last month snatched victory from the jaws of predicted defeat.

Those expecting the pattern to continue have predicted defeat for the law at the Supreme Court.

A longtime Democratic strategist predicts defeat unless there is some boldness.

Observers had almost universally predicted defeat for Mashaba in Johannesburg at the hands of the veteran ANC incumbent.

And end-of-the-week polls not only predicted defeat for Mr. Barak against Mr. Netanyahu or Mr. Sharon, but defeat for the "peace camp" as a whole.

Louise Mensch has taken to Twitter to accept the blame for the Conservatives' predicted defeat in Corby, the seat she controversially quit mid-term.

THE TERRORIST The News -- A man who identified himself as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, appeared in a video predicting "defeat and humiliation" for what he called the American "crusader" effort.

Even the prosecutor predicted defeat, Eriksson told me, and during a short break Eriksson heard the judge remark to the court reporter that the trial was a waste of the taxpayers' money.

With the polls predicting defeat for the constitution by a narrow margin in France, by rather more in the Netherlands is that era now about to end?This is no Maastricht.

Don't forget that on the day of the top-up fees vote, back in 2004, and despite months of intense pressure by ministers and whips, the tallies kept by the whips' office that morning still predicted defeat by a margin of more than 20.