1.   Despite its winning streak of securing big-time sporting events during the last eight years, Ebersol and NBC have tasted defeat.

2.   Edison tasted defeat many times, but he did not allow it.

3.   Elie, who never has tasted defeat in a postseason series as a Rocket, smiled thinly.

4.   However, last session, the gourmands of the Hill tasted bitter defeat as both the House and Senate passed new restrictions on gifts.

5.   Out there, Lindsey saw a bit of his grandfather, the original James Lindsey, a Confederate sharp-shooter, who also tasted bitter defeat.

6.   Suddenly it began to taste defeat with unaccustomed regularity.

7.   The kind of beating the Oxnard resident took from Felix Trinidad here on Saturday night has that effect on a proud fighter who had never tasted defeat.

8.   We tasted defeat in that second, so we know what it feels like to lose in the playoffs.

9.   Year after year, I tasted crushing defeat.

10.   All of those matches were prior to the hiring of Christie, the only current international coach yet to taste defeat.