1.   A candidate who handled the stunning defeat with especial grace.

2.   But the stunning defeat, which left many Liberty players teary-eyed and shaking their heads in disbelief, put their post-season destiny in the hands of two underdog teams.

3.   First corruption allegations, then a stunning defeat in parliament, and now a sex scandal.

4.   In a stunning defeat for the Republican Party, California voters have returned the state Assembly to Democratic control after only two years of GOP domination.

5.   In the Granite State, McCain, now a Bush backer, dealt the frontrunner a stunning defeat.

6.   It was a stunning defeat for the Pentagon and the manufacturer, which rarely had encountered a Congress opposed to a military program on the verge of production.

7.   Last month Miami handed Connecticut a stunning defeat in Storrs.

8.   That means Microsoft will get two chances to reverse the stunning defeat handed the company by US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.

9.   The military suffered stunning defeats at the hands of Russian-backed Armenian troops and lost the region.

10.   The Rangers, by contrast, took their stunning defeat Friday with stunned grace and no conspiracy theories.