31.   It was a bittersweet victory for a man who suffered two devastating presidential defeats over the past decade.

32.   It would be a devastating defeat for the Nationalists, who in the past two years have lost the presidency and their legislative majority.

33.   The Conservatives, who suffered devastating defeats in the last two national elections, are torn by internal divisions between centrists and right-wingers.

34.   Therein lay a weakness in the financial system, which was one of the factors that dealt the BOT a devastating defeat in the currency war.

35.   When the mercurial left-hander talked of killing himself after the devastating defeat against Sampras three years ago, many wondered whether he was joking.

36.   With both his previous coalition partners reeling from devastating defeats, the job could prove harder than he had expected.