Sentence examples for wipeout from inspiring English sources

But Labour's wipeout in Scotland was the only bit of this election accurately predicted by the pollsters, although even here the scale of our defeat was underestimated.

Related: ICM poll: Labour faces wipeout in Scotland after new leader fails to dent SNP support A coalition – technically defined as a government with ministers of both parties – between Labour and the SNP is highly unlikely, and both parties have in fact ruled one out.

The Liberal Democrats suffered a near-total wipeout losing all but one of its 11 MEPs and placing serious pressure on Nick Clegg to justify his leadership of his party as its share of the national vote was 7 %.

It was less the Olympics and more Total Wipeout.

By the end of the lesson we had both made it upright several times – very briefly, admittedly, and always preceding an epic wipeout – and felt quite proud of ourselves.

He might yet save the party from ruin – perhaps not win an election but save Labor from a historic wipeout.

Already the party has given up on unseating Clegg in Sheffield Hallam, and believe they will have to deal with him in the event of any talks, unless he faces a wipeout and loses the support of his own party.

Conservationists say there is no ecological reason for this wipeout – no habitat loss, no food shortages, no killer disease – only a conflict of interest between a lucrative business and one of our most impressive predators.

Meanwhile, Dunbartonshire East will set the tone for the Lib Dems' night in Scotland: will tactical voting by the Tories help the party avoid near wipeout north of the border?

Wednesday's poll, also finds a 21% swing to SNP from Labour across 16 constituencies suggesting a Labour wipeout in Scotland, and potentially ruling out Labour's majority in Westminster.

Yet his hopes of taking the 40-odd Tory seats in England and Wales he needed, given Labour's wipeout in Scotland, to have a hope of governing, rested on altogether more hackneyed pledges: chiefly, to protect the NHS from imagined Tory predations.There were reasons, supported by the opinion polls, to suggest he might succeed with that low blow.