Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

The Milwaukee Brewers benefited from these events by qualifying in the playoffs as a Wild Card team, to lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, the eventual World Series winner.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

" However, in her game against Veselin Topalov, Polgár pushed the eventual tournament winner and world champion to a seven-hour marathon before succumbing.

In early 1998, he was a serious contender for the 2000 United States presidential election, but his campaign possibilities faltered, and he instead endorsed eventual winner George W. Bush.

At the 2006 French Open, Hewitt reached the fourth round, where he lost to defending champion and eventual winner Rafael Nadal in four sets.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Abdul was present at the initial audition of the eventual winner, Leona Lewis.

Despite Roosevelt's support for Harrison's reelection bid in the presidential election of 1892, the eventual winner, Grover Cleveland ( a Bourbon Democrat ), reappointed him to the same post.

Mankajō was the eventual winner of this unusually long match on day twelve of the 2007 May honbasho.

In 2010, Republican Carl Paladino carried Cattaraugus County over Democrat ( and eventual winner ) Andrew Cuomo 65 % to 31 %, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Chuck Schumer, both incumbent Democrats, carried the county by 51 % to 46 % and 54 % to 43 % margins respectively.

He also busied himself judging entrants for the Prix de Rome – arguing successfully for the eventual winner, the 21 year old Jules Massenet.

The inaugural and perpetual Peter Brock Trophy was handed out to eventual race winner Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup.

It was one of only a handful of counties outside Western New York to have voted for Carl Paladino over eventual winner Andrew Cuomo for Governor in 2010.

The winner of the Match Game segment played the returning champion in the Hollywood Squares segment with the eventual winner of Squares playing the Super-Match.

However, his expensive campaign, slick image, lack of parliamentary experience, and vague policy positions did not endear him to many delegates, and he was unable to build upon his base support, being overtaken by eventual winner Joe Clark on the second ballot.

Except for a loss in the 1996 quarterfinals to eventual winner Richard Krajicek, Sampras continued to win at Wimbledon for the rest of the decade, becoming the most successful male player in Wimbledon history.

His best performance at the French Open came in 1996, when he lost a semifinal match to the eventual winner, Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

Sampras lost a five-set US Open semifinal to the eventual winner Patrick Rafter, after leading the match two sets to one.

He later participated to the 2004 European Championship where France finished in the top of their group, but they were eliminated by the eventual winner of the competition, Greece, in the quarter finals.

The eventual winner, Lê Long Đĩnh, became the most notorious tyrant in Vietnamese history.

Following the addition of a portion of Wasco County, Moro became the eventual winner.

On election day itself, Paddick won 91, 774 or 4. 16 % of the first preference votes, behind eventual winner Boris Johnson for the Conservatives, former mayor Ken Livingstone for Labour, and Greens candidate Jenny Jones.

Automatic bids went to the top 25 in series points ( every driver from eventual series champion Tony Stewart to 25th place Brian Vickers ), as well as any Daytona race winner who was not otherwise qualified and who competed in at least one race in 2011 ( which will enable Bill Elliott, Geoff Bodine, Derrike Cope, Michael Waltrip, Jamie McMurray, Trevor Bayne, Terry Labonte, and Ken Schrader to make the race if they decide to run ).

Graebner also reached the singles quarterfinals in Cincinnati in 1970, knocking off Bob McKinley, Barry MacKay, and Ray Ruffels before falling to eventual champ Ken Rosewall.

In 1999, upon the dismissal of his successor, Ken Bode, he briefly returned as moderator of Washington Week in Review until the eventual permanent host, Gwen Ifill, was able to assume her new duties.

She ran for president of the actor's union in 2009 on the Membership First ticket, but lost to eventual winner Ken Howard.

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

Dalglish went on to play in both the 1978 World Cup in Argentina – scoring against eventual runners-up the Netherlands in a famous 3 – 2 win – and the 1982 World Cup in Spain, scoring against New Zealand.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

It then went through an odyssey of reopenings, closures and relaunches under a number of different names including Conditorei Friediger, Café Wiener, Engelhardt Brau and Kaffee Potsdamer Platz ( sometimes appearing to have two or more names simultaneously ), before its eventual destruction in World War II.

The votes went to Matthew Lloyd ( three votes, seven marks, eight goals ), Ben Cousins ( thirty disposals, three goals ), and eventual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd ( twenty-three disposals ).

The season ended on a sour note for Carey, being well held by Jakovich in the Semi Final and then Full back of the Century Stephen Silvagni in the Preliminary Final, where North Melbourne went down to eventual Premiers Carlton.

He was also the starter in Euro 2004, saving David Beckham's penalty shot in the round robin, but France went out in the quarterfinals to eventual winners Greece.

French land forces went on to make several attacks on the British settlement at Cuddalore, but the eventual replacement of the negligent Peyton by Thomas Griffin resulted in a return to British naval supremacy which put the French on the defensive.

Kile went 16 – 11 in 2001, and the Cardinals made the playoffs again, losing to the eventual world champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS.

It became a hit for the channel, spawning many future stars in both music and acting during its nine-year run, including Martika ( who went by her real name of Marta Marrero in the show's first season ), eventual Party of Five co-stars Scott Wolf and Jennifer Love Hewitt ( billed as Love Hewitt ), and Stacy Ferguson ( later known as " Fergie " of The Black Eyed Peas ).

They went on to lose the match by 57 points, and would only register 3 more wins for the season ( one of those was against eventual premiers the Sydney Swans by one point, who coincidentally had a one point win against Collingwood the round before ), eventually finishing 12th.

The team went on to lose in the state quarterfinals to eventual AAA State Champion Punxsutawny.

And in the 109th Congress, President Bush's immigration plan – which was based on a proposal by Cato scholar Dan Griswold – went down to defeat largely due to the eventual opposition of conservative Republican congressmen.

His work in Slade's Case led to the rise of modern contract law, and his actions in the Case of Proclamations and the other pleadings which led to his eventual dismissal went some way towards securing judicial independence.

It is possible, Livingston speculates, that the eventual battlesite at Brunanburh was then chosen in an agreement with Athelstan: " there would be one fight, and to the victor went England.

He went on to win 46 caps, and was summoned for the squads at that tournament ( not leaving the bench in an eventual group stage exit ) and the 2002 FIFA World Cup ( appearing five times for the losing finalists, and receiving a red card in the 2 – 0 group stage win against Cameroon ).

A defeat which must have spurred Atalanta on as, after winning the Second Leg 2-0, they went on to reach the Semi-Finals, losing to eventual winners KV Mechelen, but in the process becoming one of only two teams in the competition ’ s history to reach the penultimate round whilst playing their football outside of the national top flight league.

After a period of relative calm, the issue of Kurdish autonomy ( self-rule or independence ) went unfulfilled, sparking discontent and eventual rebellion among the Kurds in 1961.

They also reached the Coca-Cola Cup semi-finals, where they went out on away goals to eventual winners Aston Villa.

In 2008, the Freedom went 11 – 1 – 2 in the regular season, winning the Northeast Division, then defeated the Atlanta Silverbacks, 2 – 1, to capture the Eastern Conference championship, but then fell to the eventual W-League champion Pali Blues, 2 – 0, in the W-League semifinals.

Carl Zeiss Jena went on to be the eventual cup runners-up, losing the final to Dinamo Tbilisi of the Soviet Union.

They also went on to form more intimate matrimonial alliances with stronger South Indian kingdoms, until these matrimonial links superseded the local royal lineage and gave rise to the Kalinga invasion by King Kalinga Magha in 1214 and the eventual passing of power into the hands of a Pandyan King following the Arya Chakrawarthi invasion of Sri Lanka in 1284.

After losing 8 – 10 to eventual champion Steve Davis in the first round of World Championship, White went on to win his first professional titles – the Scottish Masters ( defeating Cliff Thorburn in the final ) and the Northern Ireland Classic ( defeating Davis ).

In 1998, the Jets went to the playoffs with a 12 – 4 record, which was good enough for second place in the conference and earned the Jets their third home playoff game since moving to New Jersey in 1984 ( their first home playoff game was against the New England Patriots following the 1985 season ), but lost to the eventual Super Bowl-champion Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game.