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"fightback" Definitions
  1. an effort by a person, group or team to get back to a strong position that they have lost

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A second government defeat might imply a successful Brexit fightback.
Headlines Mishaps mar Theresa May's fightback at Tory conference on.ft.
Johnson has not given up hope of a similar fightback.
Among the optimists were three Viennese exiles who launched a fightback against totalitarianism.
To organise the fightback he founded the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) in 1947.
Banks and insurers, which have suffered the most in the rout, led the fightback.
It was tough to fightback but I was relaxed and it paid off afterwards.
Nigel Farage has launched the Brexit Party to "start the fightback" against the Remainer establishment.
On Monday, the dollar's rally came to an end as the euro staged a fightback.
Tuesday's developments could be an important moment in the fightback for the rule of law.
"I was thinking, 'Rafa please miss, I cannot make a winner'," he said of Nadal's fightback.
IT WAS A year of fragmentation and fightback, of progress and decline, of fear and resolution.
Abadi has overseen the two-year fightback, but lacks a political powerbase to match Sadr or Maliki.
Kasich, governor of Ohio, came second and has a good claim to lead the fightback against Trump.
He succeeded; the book became a weapon in the Western fightback against totalitarianism in the 1940s and beyond.
The rebels however said a fightback was underway to take back lost positions and re-secure the road.
"He represents the neoliberal wing that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible," West wrote.
But Jennifer Fritzsche, an analyst at Wells Fargo, argued that the move was a "fightback" moment for the company.
The first stage of its fightback strategy to reboot trust, a code review plan, was announced a year ago.
If the lira doesn't stage a fightback in coming months, this will be its sixth straight year of losses.
McIlroy himself had to overcome an early double-bogey before his fightback saw him pencil in a two-under-par 70.
Sevastova blunted the Russian's fightback with a hold for 4-2 followed by another big break and then served out the contest.
The fightback by the stock market has been led by technology stocks, as they have led the rally over the past year.
Perhaps a first sign of success in the business fightback was this week's Queen's Speech, which at least acknowledged the value of enterprise.
If true, and despite Lyft's fightback, the odds must be on business travellers living in an Uber-only world a few years hence.
Looking mostly healthy, if typically disheveled, Mr. Johnson stressed that he would continue to "lead the national fightback" from his home via teleconferencing.
Unseeded German Jan-Lennard Struff earlier resisted a Stefanos Tsitsipas fightback and Serbian teenager Miomir Kecmanovic beat fifth-seed Alexander Zverev in two big upsets.
The holiday company this month said it was willing to sell its profitable airline business to fund its fightback from losses racked up in 2018.
Williams was equally as ruthless during their match, winning the crucial points when Vandeweghe felt like she was within a sniff of staging a fightback.
Cup debutant Cantlay set the fightback in motion when he drained a 14-foot birdie on the 18th to grab a point with Xander Schauffele.
Two goals from Sebastien Dockier helped inspire a Belgium fightback after conceding an early goal to beat India 3-1 in the men's hockey quarter-final.
Emigrating to Britain in 1931, he was the author of the first call to arms for the liberal fightback, "The Road to Serfdom," published in 1944.
But if there is to be an effective fightback, there has to be a cool analysis of what is happening, why and what can be done.
The second set started in similar fashion with Stephens breaking early to run up a 2-63 lead before another fightback from the 27-year-old Pavlyuchenkova.
After a brief fightback Lajovic, who was also looking to win his first Masters title, was overwhelmed again and Fognini again broke to move 3-2 up.
He outplayed Nadal in the opening two sets and then, after weathering a ferocious fightback, made the running in the fifth when his baseline craft matched Nadal's.
Rickie Fowler capped the stirring U.S. fightback with a clutch putt for par on 18 to clinch a half-point against Cameron Smith and Im Sung-jae.
The Spaniard raced into a 26-22 lead in the tiebreak and quelled a Barty fightback from behind the baseline to send the match to a deciding set.
Yet far from offering comfort to other retailers hoping to knit together physical and online businesses, Walmart's fightback shows how hard it will be for them to repel Amazon.
In a follow up note Wednesday, the Russia watcher said she now expected a fightback from the Kremlin with authorities likely force protest movement activity into heavily-policed demonstrations.
He was competitive with Paul Keating in the 1993 campaign, in spite of the burden of what was called "the longest political suicide note in history" in his "Fightback" platform.
Herbert is better known for his skill as a doubles player, but reached his second career ATP World Tour final after surviving a De Minaur fightback in the second set.
But this fightback will not take the form of reheated slogans and nostalgia for the "end of history," as illusory as anything conjured up by flag-waving, little-Britain Brexiteers.
The man whose dramatic fightback after his life had seemed at rock bottom was one of the most heartwarming stories in Rio, needed just one jump to make the final.
In one sense, Gasperoni's spirited fightback has been a significant public relations victory, in that he has given a global platform to a footballing nation which so often lacks one.
Spithill's fightback in San Francisco in 2013 ranks as one of the biggest ever sporting reversals, overturning an 8-1 New Zealand lead to win the "Auld Mug" by 9-8.
In a race with two late safety car periods, reigning champion Hamilton went from pole position to the rear of the field before finishing second for Mercedes in a superb fightback.
Belgium struck early and held off a late Brazil fightback to send the five-times champions tumbling out in an end-to-end thriller that earned a semi-final with France.
"There will still be a significant fightback from the Zuma faction which will restrain Ramaphosa," said Darias Jonker, director for Africa at Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk consultancy.
However, the Swiss was delighted to win that final game which featured three deuces and a break point before he finally ended a potential Nadal fightback on his fifth match point.
They needed just a half point from the last three of Sunday's singles matches still out on the course but Europe, who last won it in 218, staged a remarkable fightback.
The billionaire retail tycoon launched a fightback on Monday, hours after he was heavily criticised in a report by two House of Commons committees, one of which is chaired by Field. bit.
While he once likened the labor movement to a "holy crusade," Mr. Sadlowski dismissed the notion that the Fightback dissidents were idealists and that the campaign showed him to be a romantic.
Thousands more need a temporary place to live, either to stay close to crisis centres at the core of the coronavirus fightback or to keep housemates infection-free during weeks of lockdown.
MANCHESTER CITY 2, NAPOLI 1 Manchester City scored twice in the first 13 minutes before holding off a spirited fightback from visiting Napoli, winning its third straight Champions League group stage match.
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, launched a new range of own-label fresh produce, poultry and meat on Monday, stepping up its fightback against German discounters Aldi and Lidl.
Bangladesh avoided Ireland's fate earlier in the day as the Asian test-playing nation staved off a spirited fightback from the Netherlands to kick off their campaign with a tight eight-run victory.
Strikes by Blai Mallarach and Alvaro Granados gave Spain a four-goal lead at the end of the third period and a late Croatia fightback fell short as they ran out of time.
But banking on rapid growth assumes Zhong An's competitors cannot mount much of a fightback - and that Zhong An can keep hold of the roughly 200 partners that provide most of its premiums.
A late Serbian fightback fell short as a smaller but more agile Spanish team kept collecting offensive rebounds and restricted their rivals to three successful shots from three-point range from 19 attempts.
They beat Britain 86-76 on Thursday and, with the top three in the four-team group qualifying for Tokyo, made sure of their ticket after holding off a late fightback by the Spaniards.
They beat Britain 86-76 on Thursday and, with the top three in the four-team group qualifying for Tokyo, made sure of their ticket after holding off a late fightback by the Spaniards.
China beat Britain 86-76 on Thursday and, with the top three in the four team group qualifying for Tokyo, made sure of their ticket after holding off a late fightback by the Spaniards.
"In many ways, former president Zuma is at the heart of this fightback, together with a group of discredited individuals," Monday's The Star newspaper quoted Nzimande, who is also minister of transport, as saying.
If the New Englishness is the fightback of forgotten communities, then it is a national identity born out of an inherently political place—a volksgeist of resentment—not a cultural or a spiritual one.
"A slight fightback is recorded for Labour, but not to the extent identified in a couple of other polls," Martin Boon, director at ICM, said, adding that a methodological change had also affected the poll.
PARIS (Reuters) - Europe opened a commanding 217-224.5 lead after Saturday's Ryder Cup fourballs with Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia fending off a thrilling American fightback to lead another home onslaught around Le Golf National.
Serie A leaders Juve staged a stunning fightback in the Spanish capital after losing the first leg 3-0, levelling the tie with two goals from Mario Mandzukic and a tap in by Blaise Matuidi.
Tesco's market share growth shows that its fightback against the German discounters is working, helped particularly by its basic own-brand products and the "Farm Brands" range of own label fresh produce, poultry and meat.
Playing in a deep-lying role, Henderson provided a platform for Liverpool to launch a flurry of first-half attacks, before helping the visitors snuff out any threat of a Chelsea fightback after the break.
A similar fightback happened in Kenya prior to its constitutional reform of 2010, which provided for greatly expanded abortion access, and in Ethiopia in the run-up to its relatively liberal abortion law of 2005.
"It marks the start of the UK's economic fightback — an unparalleled joint effort by enterprise and government to help our country emerge from this crisis with the minimum possible damage," she said in a statement.
The 140,500 strong crowd had come expecting another coronation at a sunny Silverstone but instead witnessed a superb fightback and plenty of emotion as the Mercedes driver dug deep to finish behind Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel.
Had he grabbed the third set a fightback might have been on the cards, although Chung, who frazzled fourth-seeded German wunderkind Alexander Zverev in five sets in the previous round, can apparently run all night.
But he has been constrained by factional battles in the governing African National Congress (ANC), where a section of the party remains loyal to Zuma and has launched a fightback against reforms which threaten their influence.
They more than met their match in the Swiss, however, with men's slalom silver medalist Zenhaeusern leading the fightback after they had gone 1-0 down in the title match when Denise Feierabend lost to Katharina Liensberger.
Pliskova was down 5-1 against Williams in the final set before the seventh seed produced a fightback for the ages to claim a 6-4 4-6 7-5 quarter-final win over the American great.
After a stirring Saints fightback revived memories of their shock 1976 FA Cup final victory over United and with extra time looming, the 35-year-old Ibrahimovic pounced to head Ander Herrera's cross past goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
Bonsegundo made no mistake with her second effort, sealing a remarkable fightback that left Scotland bottom of Group D and out of the tournament while third-placed Argentina kept alive their slim hopes of making the last 16.
A brave Belgium showcased their attacking brilliance then survived a spirited Brazilian fightback to claim a 2-1 win over the tournament favorites at Kazan Arena and reach the last four for the first time in 32 years.
The Kurds -- who have played a key role in the fightback against ISIS -- say their role will be to support the ISF when the offensive gets underway, but they won't enter Mosul itself, a largely Sunni-Arab city.
McIlroy and Garcia withstood a fightback by Brooks Koepka and Finau for a 2&1 victory — Spain's Garcia nailing it with a stupendous 25-foot birdie on the 33th that provoked an eruption of roars across the course.
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French Open runner-up Simona Halep staged a remarkable fightback and saved a match point to reach the semi-finals with a 403-240 20-220(6) 6-0 win over Elina Svitolina on Wednesday.
CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson inspired a bold fightback by holders Europe in Friday afternoon's fourball matches before the United States ended a gripping first day at the Ryder Cup with a 25-19753 lead.
Within the blink of an eye Keys had opened up a 4-0 lead and while Cornet, ranked 61st in the world, broke in the fifth game to raise hopes of a fightback, her challenge quickly hit the buffers.
After the youthful President Barack Obama, born in 1961, Trump's presidency gives us once again the last of the baby boomers, his political base the last fightback of a generation troubled by the radical social change of recent years.
Svitolina had been a virtual spectator during the fightback but shook off her passive play and concentrated on depth as opposed to direction, taking advantage of mental lapses from Bertens to claim the opener when her opponent double-faulted.
Six issuers raised £1003bn on around £6.7bn of demand this week as the fightback staged by the market since the UK voted to leave the EU gathers steam ahead of the start of the BoE's purchase scheme later this month.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Serena Williams ended world number one Simona Halep's run at the Australian Open on Monday, surviving a second set fightback from the Romanian to keep alive her hopes of winning a first Grand Slam since becoming a mother.
Mario Draghi's comments mark a rare alignment with Germany's position on a key issue and also his first attempt at a fightback against Italian criticism of the ECB's decision to force banks to set aside more money against loans that sour.
Sixth-seed Nishikori, a runner-up at the U.S. Open two years ago, held off a fightback from German Benjamin Becker on Tuesday to kickstart his 2016 title bid with a 6-1 6-1 3-6 6-3 victory.
The 37-year-old Williams, seeded 10th, paid the price for her lack of match practice as she was playing in only her fifth tournament of the year, and her fightback in the middle of the second set was short-lived.
MADRID (Reuters) - Simona Halep won the Madrid Open for the second consecutive year after staving off a fightback from Kristina Mladenovic, of France, to win 7-5 6-7 (5) 6-2 in a thrilling marathon three-setter on Saturday.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World number one Simona Halep quelled a tenacious Angelique Kerber fightback and saved two match points to reach her first Australian Open final with a riveting 6-3 403-6 9-7 victory on Rod Laver Arena on Thursday.
It has taken decades for the truth to come out about the institutional negligence which caused 96 deaths to occur, as well as an enormous fightback against those who would rather have kept that truth hidden for sake of convenience.
Not long after his father took the throne in January 2015, MBS, as he is known, initiated the desert kingdom's fightback against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who had routed Yemen's elected government just over Saudi Arabia's long, porous southern border.
He reported directly to CEO Stephen Allan and led new business efforts, most prominently a program called "Project Fightback" in which MediaCom recovered from its 2016 loss of its $2 billion Volkswagen business by picking up Uber, Walgreens, and other accounts.
The powerful world number seven was relentless as he snuffed out any hope of a famous French fightback — giving Pouille little chance of extending the last final in the 20-year-old competition's current guise into a deciding fifth rubber.
Russian and Iranian military involvement in Syria's six-year civil war is reinvigorating the Syrian government's fightback, bringing swift gains for Assad in recent weeks and putting full encirclement of the rebel stronghold of Aleppo, a major symbol of the uprising, within sight.
It was plain sailing from there on in, though, as Theo Walcott doubled the lead 10 minutes into the second half and, although the hosts pulled a goal back from the penalty spot through Robert Snodgrass, there was to be no late fightback.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka staved off a fightback from Karolina Pliskova to reach her maiden Australian Open final with a 6-2 4-6 6-4 win on Thursday setting up a title clash with double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
No comment was immediately available from the FT. The fightback comes after the FT alleged in January that Wirecard's Singapore staff had engaged in fraud and false accounting, basing its reporting on a law firm's probe of allegations made by an unnamed whistleblower.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal produced an incredible fightback to beat Russian Daniil Medvedev and keep his ATP Finals hopes alive on Wednesday, saving a match point at 1-5 down in the decider before winning 24-20(21) 25-20 230-63(26).
He has been leading the fightback after Tesco's sales and profit were hammered by changing shopping habits, the rise of discounters Aldi and Lidl and a 2285 accounting scandal which plunged the firm into its worst crisis in its near 22018-year history.
Related: Egypt's Journalists Have Launched a Fightback Against Government Repression Meanwhile, the case for ousted former President Mohamad Morsi — who was handed a death sentence last year for his involvement in a mass prison break during the revolution of 2011 — was adjourned.
Further timely Reed birdies came after the turn to quell a fightback by the European duo as he drained 10-footers on 14 and 15, the last of them prompting a congratulatory pat on the back from U.S. vice-captain Tiger Woods.
But a dissident group he led, called Steelworkers Fightback, enlisted Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a prominent Washington lawyer, to challenge the outcome in federal court, and in a rerun in 1974 supervised by Labor Department monitors, Mr. Sadlowski won by 20,000 votes.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova stayed aggressive in the face of a spirited fightback from former champion Angelique Kerber to move into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open with a 6-7(24) 20-213(218) 24-22 win on Monday.
Nishikori promptly broke serve and then held to go 4-1 up before leveling the match at 123-1 but any sense of a fightback, and the possibility of a first Japanese man in the Wimbledon semi-finals since 1933, was short-lived.
He repelled a fierce Thiem fightback, saving a couple of set points in the second set tiebreak before clinching a debut win with his 13th ace — celebrating by inviting the crowd to join in a verse of "happy birthday" to his watching wife Kelsey.
Lewis joined Tesco in September 2014, leading a fightback after sales and profits were hammered by changing shopping habits, the rise of German discounters Aldi and Lidl and an accounting scandal that plunged the retailer into the worst crisis in its near 143-year history.
AZAZ, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian insurgents carried out two suicide car bomb attacks in an assault on pro-government forces in Aleppo on Saturday and opened a new front northeast of the city, an attempted fightback after territorial gains for President Bashar al-Assad.
But others said speculation about Mulvaney's role in the impeachment fightback is itself an indication that he has lost clout with the president and that he might be telling Trump what he wants to hear only to preserve his status while he plots an exit.
PARIS (Reuters) - Argentina pulled off an unprecedented women's World Cup fightback from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 with Scotland on Wednesday, but it will be the video assistant referee's decision to award a stoppage-time penalty retake that will remain in memory.
Nadal fought back from 1-3 down and 15-40 on serve in the opening set, then held off a late fightback by Nishikori in the second to prevail after a little more than an hour and a half at the sun-baked Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Two successive breaks of serve allowed Williams to win her eighth game in a row and open up a 4-0 lead, and she saw off a brief fightback from Pliskova before sending down her 13th ace to seal the match in one hour and 26 minutes.
A mini fightback pegged the second-set deficit back to 5-2 before another Azarenka backhand groundstroke error saw Halep home in just under 90 minutes, keeping alive the Romanian's hopes of a maiden grand slam victory and an ascent to the world number one ranking.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal survived a heroic Daniil Medvedev fightback to claim an epic 22-25 53-25 24-212 4-6 6-4 win and a fourth U.S. Open title on Sunday, moving within one Grand Slam crown of matching Roger Federer's record of 20.
World number one Williams, seeking a third title at Indian Wells after winning her second a distant 15 years ago, was badly let down by her forehand, though she did mount a late fightback and broke Azarenka in the eighth game of the second set for 3-403.
Vonn's fightback is appreciated throughout the skiing world but her hosts would rather see her win silver on Tuesday as they back Lara Gut, who suffered her own crash in Cortina but says she is 100 percent fit, to kick off the championships in golden style for Switzerland.
They captured their one break point to seal the second and after repelling a fightback from the Spaniards, who held a 4-1 lead in the third, the French duo won on their third match point as Benneteau's brilliant backhand service return sealed the rubber and the tie.
But Spicer's departure after the most fraught six months of antagonism between the press and a West Wing that anyone can remember is just one move in a shuffle of personnel and tactics that augurs an aggressive White House fightback that is likely to intensify the current discord in Washington.
"Within our coverage, Tesco (has) positioned itself as the dominant player in those areas in the UK." Tesco CEO Dave Lewis has been leading a fightback after the company's profits were hammered by changing shopping habits, the rise of German discounters Aldi and Lidl and an accounting scandal in 2014.
That's because Russia, with a lead, just sat back and calmly watched the Saudis pass it around, mostly ineffectively and mostly in their own half Andrew Das: In many ways that half could not have gone better for Russia: two early goals, little fightback from the Saudis, and Golovin looked terrific.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Serena Williams squandered four match points and blew a 24-240 lead in the deciding set as seventh seed Karolina Pliskova produced a fightback for the ages to claim a 20-4 4-6 7-5 quarter-final win over the American great at the Australian Open on Wednesday.
Forget the offside goal which snatched away their shadow of a fightback at the Etihad on Sunday: pitting Manchester City against Arsenal these days is like making a boxer fight someone who has just spent six months in bed for the sake of medical science and suffered massive muscle atrophy in the meantime.
Memories of the first major tournament for the island of just 21996,103 will be mostly warm and inspiring: the first goal and first point at the Euros in a 210-215 draw with Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal; the last-minute goal against Austria, which sealed a second-place group-stage finish and a date with England in the knockout rounds; and, of course, the fightback against the English as an early 220-0 deficit turned into a 2-1 late-night showstopper.
ZADAR, Croatia (Reuters) - Borna Coric kept his cool to prevail in a thrilling winner-takes-all duel with fellow young gun Frances Tiafoe on Sunday and steer Croatia into the final of the Davis Cup for the second time in three years with a monumental 3-2 victory over the U.S. The 21-year-old Coric came from two sets to one down to defeat the 20-year-old debutant Tiafoe 6-7(0) 63-1 6-7(11) 6-1 6-3 and finally subdue a remarkable fightback from the Americans, who had earlier leveled the tie 2-13 from two down.

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