Battered by scandal and facing probable defeat at the polls, Mr. Gonzalez, Spain's Prime Minister for 13 years, has often said he would prefer to give up power.

Mr. Daley, then working as a lawyer, was hired to salvage Nafta from what was seen as probable defeat.

If you have thought about cannons a great deal and you dream of them when there is no war, they are most likely to warn you against struggle and probable defeat.

Foreseeing Germany's probable defeat, Heydrich convinces his superior to begin preparations for a possible partisan campaign should German forces lose the war.

And it found out it could turn a probable defeat into an improbable 89-87 victory.

He now heads a minority Government and, with his popularity at an all-time low and his party in disarray, he faces a probable defeat if he seeks a fifth term.

His forces were subsequently squeezed in by the succeeding emperor Liu Yao and the general Shi Le, and, facing probable defeat, his followers assassinated him.

Larwood's one wicket in the Australian innings cost 139 runs; England were saved from probable defeat when the game was shortened by rain.

Taft thought that, despite probable defeat, the party had been preserved as "the defender of conservative government and conservative institutions."

South ruffed, happy to have avoided a heart return and probable defeat.