They started with a heavy defeat, losing to Fiji by 383 runs.
To lose by an innings three times is a massive, heavy defeat and that's what has hurt.
The lower order scored quickly on the final morning but couldn't prevent a heavy defeat.
There followed a home game against Wigan which turned out to be a heavy 0-5 defeat.
That junior may have to pay for the victory with a heavy defeat in the future.
However, he suffered a heavy 7-1 defeat to Taylor in the final.
With the actual distribution South was headed for a heavy defeat.
He scored 0 and 3 in a heavy Worcestershire defeat.
The bitterness between the two camps showed on the field and led to a heavy defeat.
Following heavy defeat in the campaign her performance as chair has drawn comment from across the political spectrum.
Congress's oversight was an abject failure leading up to the preventive war on Iraq.
"But given the abject failure of the industry to regulate itself, what choice did they give us?"
Last time the issue was the abject failure of the Bush administration.
Anything less than that would be abject and horrifying failure.
On one hand, Republicans assert that labor's spending was an abject failure.
This time its the abject failure of the Obama administration.
An early attempt at recruitment had ended in abject failure.
But on examining the evidence of actual outcomes he came to believe such programs were abject failures.
As far as I could see, he was an abject failure.
As a president, he was an abject failure, a fact that was obvious to many.
If his people had done things hastily, they might have walked headlong into ignominious defeat.
Perhaps ignominious defeat was the fate the ancestors had decided for Riverwind.
So the great struggle had come to an end with ignominious defeat for the King and his country.
They would wipe out the shame of their ignominious defeat!
No ruler in the long history of the Imperium had ever suffered such an ignominious defeat.
Indeed Sharpe had come within a hand's breadth of ignominious defeat.
Saints managed a brief recovery to 18-12 before falling away to ignominious defeat.
Not to ignominious defeat without a chance to strike.
Led it to its most ignominious defeat in well over a century-at your hands, my friend.
He said it was an "ignominious defeat for the Russians" and represented a better outcome than many would have predicted.