1.   And even there, Republicans seemed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory this week by attacking a House-Senate conference agreement their own leaders had negotiated.

2.   A football team that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, watching a pivotal game slip through its fingers.

3.   Dole had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

4.   His letter of resignation says that the agency is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by reversing course on how aggressively it moves against power producers.

5.   It would not be the first time a party snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

6.   No one else has had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

7.   OK, so how did Miami twice snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

8.   Such contemptible scandal-mongering is bound to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in marginal districts.

9.   The Polish Church, in other words, managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

10.   We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last year.