Sentence examples for were capable of losing from inspiring English sources

England's one-day cricketers proved they were capable of losing even without their albatross-like captain, Alastair Cook, who served a match suspension as Sri Lanka took a 3-1 series lead in Colombo.

But we are capable of losing both, that's football.

He is capable of losing his cool and lashing out at his students.

I would snap your hand off for a point but we know this team is capable of winning – and we know this team is capable of losing.

Serena Williams is capable of losing, and all the players on the WTA Tour can thank Justine Henin-Hardenne for reminding them.

If he was capable of losing Colorado, perhaps there were not 20 or 25 solid Romney states, but no more than 10 or 15.

On the bright side, for all of Mangini's any-given-Sunday warnings that the Jets are capable of losing to anyone when they don't bring their A game (who but maybe the Giants isn't?), the schedule is not imposing and the division is still theirs for the taking.

"It is truly exciting to discover that these mammals are capable of losing and regrowing complex tissue in such an efficient manner," says Tara Maginnis, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Portland in Oregon who was not involved with the work.

While the UK government is capable of losing the personal details of millions of people, it is usually really, really good at getting your first name and last name arranged the right way round on your passport.

While the UK Home Office is capable of losing the personal details of millions of people, it is usually really, really good at getting your first name and last name the right way round on your passport.

Notably, the translocation frequencies for all three of these double homozygotes were significantly below that of the rad1Δ/rad1Δ rad59Δ/rad59Δ double homozygote, indicating that with the short substrates, none of the rad59 missense alleles were capable of suppressing the effect of losing RAD1 as well as the rad59Δ null allele.