1.   A close loss will sting some.

2.   The loss stung so much that the Islanders did not want to reflect on their overwhelmingly successful season.

3.   But the three opposition parties were stung by losses in their strongholds.

4.   The Open loss stung.

5.   The Pakistani carpet industry, stung by losses in cancelled foreign orders, demanded Sunday an independent high-level judicial probe into the recent murder of a child labour activist.