1.   A humiliating rout.

2.   If true it would be the most humiliating rout for the military in the drawn-out civil war.

3.   Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda was ridiculed Thursday for leading his party to a humiliating rout in a by-election for a state assembly seat he vacated.

4.   The staggered elections are seen as a referendum on Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, whose party suffered a humiliating rout in two southern states in December.

5.   Kilinochchi is the last Tiger bastion after their humiliating rout in Jaffna, further to the north, following a series of military operations launched last October.

6.   Rao led the Congress, which for decades dominated Indian politics, to a humiliating rout in the April-May general elections.

7.   The Congress has been facing mounting dissidence since its humiliating rout in two key states in December and in three other major states in February and March.

8.   The government went on to suffer a humiliating rout when the guerrillas launched a counter-attack.