Sentence examples for surrendering leads from inspiring English sources

The Jets talked about not surrendering leads, about closing out games, in the wake of the Nov. 17 debacle in Denver.

And though Henin-Hardenne, the world's new No. 1 player, might surrender leads on occasion, she rarely surrenders big matches.

This team have now surrendered leads in their first two games of the campaign, though they will have been encouraged by confirmation of the signings of Younès Kaboul and, more eye-catchingly, Roberto Pereyra.

Villa have surrendered leads in three Premier League draws during 2013, but survived a late Hammers onslaught to move out of the bottom three.

The loyalists' refusal to surrender led the former rebels to speculate that they were guarding Colonel Qaddafi, or one of his sons.

Having suffered three days of thirst, on the last day of the siege, Balbhadra, refusing to surrender, led the 70 surviving members of the garrison in a charge against the besieging force.

This time, West Virginia held onto a double-digit lead in the second half after surrendering such leads in losses to No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 10 Kansas.

Genuine surrender leads to genuine peace and it's often followed by some genuinely cool things.

Passell planned the play on that assumption, aiming to discard his remaining heart before surrendering the lead.

Surrendering the lead for two outs would seem an acceptable sacrifice when a team has three more turns at bat.

He said that unlike good teams that come right back after surrendering the lead, the Mets could not.