1.   In a bitter defeat, Lugar lost a race for school board president and Decided to leave the board.

2.   As the Los Angeles Lakers embarked for the scene of their last bitter defeat, they are a different team.

3.   After the bitter defeat to the Jets in Giants Stadium last Sunday, he went into the dressing room immediately afterward and had a private meeting with Carroll.

4.   Both Testaverde and Torretta then played poorly in their respective bowl games, resulting in bitter defeats and lost chances at national titles.

5.   But as the Clippers have learned the hard way, it only takes two minutes to turn a sure win into a bitter defeat.

6.   But that served little solace Saturday night as Los Angeles suffered its most bitter defeat of the young season.

7.   But Pohanka says preservationists are losing less publicized fights and this may be the most bitter defeat of all.

8.   But, for the candidate, a tainted victory is still preferable to a bitter defeat.

9.   Conveniently obscured was the absence of any stunning victory that had suddenly been turned into bitter defeat by some sinister force.

10.   Consider a recent night in Texas when Showalter yanked Randy Johnson after eight scoreless innings, a move that precipitated a bitter defeat.