Sentence examples for to avoid defeats from inspiring English sources

Hearts manager Gary Locke said his team need to work for the whole match if they want to avoid defeats like Sunday's 2-0 loss to Partick Thistle.

Owen Farrell and Charlie Hodgson insist that England play to win in matches, and do not seek simply to avoid defeats.

Instead, they had to avoid defeat here.

This meant the Seahawks would now have to reach the end zone to avoid defeat.

Stalls will be set out to avoid defeat as a primary aim.

Realistically, it would be a heroic effort to avoid defeat from here.

"We knew England's strength, and we knew how to avoid defeat.

Ipswich now need to avoid defeat at Blackburn next Saturday to secure a play-off place.

After that, Australia will have to show some serious stones to avoid defeat.

Often, all they can agree on is that they wish to avoid defeat.

But Cameron does not need a victory as badly as Brown needs to avoid defeat.