Sentence examples for thorough defeat from inspiring English sources

Sounding at times emotional, the prime minister maintained that his European strategy remained on course, despite the thorough defeat.

Some of the players were angry about the 33-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, a thorough defeat that all but trashed the Giants' playoff chances.

ORLANDO, Fla .-- Herman Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza, won the Florida straw poll Saturday, handing a thorough defeat to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who came in second after working the crowd of activists with a breakfast speech.

But, alas, Palestinian militants will first have to learn the bloody, hard way that suicide attacks against civilians are not going to beat Israel into diplomatic submission and that such attacks will result in their thorough defeat.

He has been angling for a pact with the more nationalist bits of the mainstream right, which has been in a thorough muddle since its defeat in the general election a year ago.

The thorough nature of their defeat on the day.

The decision was a thorough, crushing, and embarrassing defeat for the previously cocksure creationists (McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education1982).

That title is currently held in the modern era by Democrat George McGovern, who won 37.4percentt of the vote in 1972 against Richard Nixon, a defeat so thorough that it marked the beginning of the end of the liberal wave that had begun with FDR and the New Deal.

His defeat is so thorough that he cannot make this final act heroic.

But there was no disguising the fact that political defeats can be no more thorough nor more deeply deserved than Mr. Pataki's.

Defeats have rarely been as thorough.For the 2015 tournament, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said a new approach was required.