A stinging defeat last week will put that understanding to the test.

He is, on all counts, thrown back in stinging defeat.

Yet the venture capitalists have already been handed one stinging defeat.

"It has also been said that you handed Ildyrom a stinging defeat."

The battle was a stinging defeat for the British.

Seldom does she raise her voice, even after a stinging defeat.

It was a stinging defeat, since one bright spot in labor's retreat has been public employment.

Mr. Travelstead was hit with another stinging financial defeat a month later.

He sent similar signals after his stinging defeat in 2001, but found another office to run for anyway.

But a fight that had looked like a victory for the usurper suddenly turned into another stinging defeat.