Sentence examples for theirs from inspiring English sources

Having been knocked off the top of the league only on 31 January and in contention for automatic promotion until the last day of the season there may be some disappointment with their final league position, but even so theirs is surely one of the great turnarounds in modern league football.

It will not be defeated until our determination is as complete as theirs, our defence of freedom as absolute as their fanaticism, until our passion for the democratic way is as great as their passion for tyranny.

And for the record, Liverpool won the league in 1947, Albert Stubbins scoring the winner in their last match at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stoke subsequently losing theirs at Sheffield United.

SM James Riach Wardd risks becoming the story in Sterling transfer saga Hodgson worried amid Raheem Sterling's Liverpool contract chaos Wycombe started the final day of last season second to bottom of the Football League, needing to win their last game and for either Northampton or Bristol Rovers to lose theirs.

Up in the north stand, Valencia's fans cheered their goalkeeper; around the rest of the stadium, Madrid's fans jeered theirs.

Sometimes the irony of the situation cannot be missed: in one cubicle is a patient so sick they are fighting for their life and in the next is another wanting to give up theirs.

His absence apparently will divest the team of their laughs, while that of Mitchell Johnson will similarly deprive numerous England supporters of theirs.

Abbott said the federal government believed "the states should take more responsibility for their public hospitals and for their public schools and we make no apologies for wanting the states to be grown up, adult governments that take responsibility for the programs that are theirs, for the institutions that they run".

But once banks get a customer he's pretty much theirs for good.

I felt that my friends and neighbors were saying that my love is not the same as theirs".

She delivers certain lines with relish – when she tells her would-be suitor Gabriel Oak: "I hate to be thought men's property" and, when faced with another, William Boldwood, she murmurs pointedly: "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs".