(1) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(2) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(3) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(4) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(5) Different games, different moments but it is very important to start winning our points at home.” City started their title defence by defeating Newcastle United 2-0.
(6) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(7) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
(8) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.
(9) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(10) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(11) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(12) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(13) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(14) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(15) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
(16) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
(17) However since the night of our defeat last week I have been subject to the added level of pressure that comes with being a leadership candidate.
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) Despite a lack of traditional campaign organization, a mix of big rallies and constant appearances on cable news helped Trump defeat what had been described as the strongest field in Republican history.
(20) "The title race is over but that changes nothing as we should do our best from now until the end of the season," the Italian said before explaining why he did not speak to the media after the 2-0 defeat at Everton in City's previous game .
Insuperable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
Example Sentences:
(1) In establishing a chronic haemodialysis unit in Brunei the difficulties encountered were less insuperable than had been expected.
(2) One may thus carry out by an extremely benign operation without any mortality, a surgical cure not only of supple stenoses, but also of certain tight fibrous stenoses, considered insuperable.
(3) The transatlantic backdrop Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable .
(4) Strictures recurring after previous biliary-enteric bypass, those associated with established biliary cirrhosis or coexistent malignancy, and those that follow hepatic resection may pose almost insuperable technical and physiological problems.
(5) Although the superomedial thigh flap will require at least two stages it is a reliable technique and it provides a generous amount of tissue with which to solve what may at first sight seem to be an insuperable problem.
(6) In the case of gas production, this is indeed an anticipated problem-not a technologically insuperable one, but a problem of reducing the cost of the materials required (16).
(7) It is emphasized that recognition of neurosarcoidosis presents almost insuperable difficulties in those cases in which sarcoidosis is not obvious in other organs.
(8) The insuperable problem with these plans, as written, is that their net could potentially catch many more political activists than those about whom Mrs May complains.
(9) Despite the recognition of the important role of socioeconomic factors, difficulties with the appropriate presentation of daya have so far proved insuperable.
(10) Lack of comparative trials and absence of dose-response information also pose insuperable problems in attempting secondary prevention with beta-blocking drugs in practice.
(11) In 20 cases relatives refused permission and in 12 there were insuperable practical and technical difficulties.
(12) Because he had written that the chiropractic association "happily promotes bogus treatments", the judge said he had to jump the insuperable barrier of proving that the therapists were lying rather than merely deluded and face costs of £500,000 or more if he failed.
(13) Many negotiations only break through to agreement in the final hours, when higher-level political pressure is applied to overcome what appeared previously to be insuperable technical problems.
(14) Accuracy was not determined as storage effects at 4 degrees C and at -20 degrees C caused insuperable logistic problems.
(15) In rehearsal one comes up against apparently insuperable barriers, but if one can imaginatively get past them, overreach one's natural reach, it is astonishing how elastic one can become.
(16) The current understanding of this requirement, which entails that the investigator have no "treatment preference" throughout the course of the trial, presents nearly insuperable obstacles to the ethical commencement or completion of a controlled trial and may also contribute to the termination of trials because of the failure to enroll enough patients.
(17) Yet the appearance of impasse, stand-off and potentially insuperable difficulty is often an essential part of any serious arbitration.
(18) Uninterruptably so - for despite his obvious frailty, his mind is still flensing-sharp, and he still does that trick of wrong-footing the emphasis... 'that would be the first point but insuperably more important is that' (pause for breath)... so the breaks come when you least expect them and you can't interrupt.
(19) It has also been shown that infection does not necessarily pose an insuperable problem, at any rate if, as in the case described, there was no preoperative pulmonary infection in either recipient or donor.
(20) At Westminster, reform had seemed to present such insuperable barriers that it was not even tentatively contemplated until the current Queen set out to show (as her great-great-grandmother Victoria had before her) that it was perfectly possible to combine motherhood with a career, as long as there was good childcare available.