31.   Dole has suffered three humiliating defeats as a national candidate, and it hardly helps to win the nomination in a way that makes the general election hopeless.

32.   Groups favoring a continued ban said that the about-face by Ottawa represented a humiliating defeat for Canadian health standards and national sovereignty.

33.   He apparently wanted to face alone the humiliating defeat that everyone had been predicting for months.

34.   He suffered a humiliating defeat in the skies and on the battlefield, but no sooner did he surrender than he began to reload.

35.   Here they had suffered a humiliating defeat.

36.   His boss, the governor, had little clout with the Legislature as he returned from a humiliating defeat, Pezzella says.

37.   If not for those two humiliating defeats by UCLA and Kansas State, he probably could add that to his list of honors.

38.   Instead, they suffered a second straight humiliating defeat to Auburn and then were burned by the Seminoles in a game they appeared to have won.

39.   It can take more character to exhibit grace in the exhilaration of victory than in humiliating defeat, but that is what is required now of President Clinton.

40.   It is a measure of the ill will between Clinton and the Republicans that they suspect him of engineering humiliating defeats for political advantage.