1.   Bruner lost a run for Congress after shepherding the stadium deal, and many attributed the defeat to his support of the sales tax.

2.   He attributed his defeat in part to the weak support in the district for the Democratic mayoral candidate, Ruth Messinger.

3.   Voucher supporters have attributed those defeats to the legal cloud over the concept that the court removed Thursday.

4.   Ralf attributed his defeat to a bad set of tires and slow pit stops.

5.   But she rejected criticism from the New York-based Human Rights Watch, which attributed the defeat to U.S. inconsistency at the commission.

6.   In interviews since, Dole has attributed his defeat in large part to the tax issue.

7.   Observers attributed his defeat to the manoeuvring by backstabbing opponents within the party.

8.   She refused to attribute the defeat solely to the injury.

9.   A disappointed Arjuna Ranatunga, the Sri Lanka captain, attributed the defeat to poor batting.

10.   Kinkel attributed election defeats to a failure of the party to keep faithful to its principles, a lack of persuasive power and infighting among its members.