Sentence examples for predicted defeat from inspiring English sources

Pundits described the case as a train wreck for the government and predicted defeat.

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.

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.

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

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.

That arithmetic led one of the amendment's most eager advocates, Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, to predict defeat for his side today.

Kerry said it was too early to predict defeat for Obama in his attempt to win Congressional backing for strikes against the Assad regime.

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.