This allowed England's batsmen to put their side in a winning position - again.
England Lions batsman Moeen Ali's second Championship century of the season had put Worcestershire into a winning position.
As for Villa, manager Alex McLeish will be wondering how on earth his side lost from a winning position.
It was only the second time that the Potters had failed to secure victory from a winning position in the Premier League this season.
The fall-out in Italy from Alonso's failure to win the world title after being in a winning position was so big that even politicians got involved in the debate.
Seasoned congressional hands, such as the departing Panetta and legislative-affairs director John Hilley, had argued for holding fast to what had proved to be a winning position last year.
France's Richard Gasquet, the 13th seed, looked to have blown a winning position before coming through the fifth set against Alberto Martin for a 6-2 6-3 1-6 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 victory.
"I think the players have done superbly to put themselves in a winning position in a Test match after four sessions of play having lost the first day completely, " he commented.
The second-most-common factor was greed, in that they had a winning position, but stuck with it for too long and in some cases, they ended up with no profit at all.
Although the draw is perhaps the likeliest result, only two of the last 17 Tests at Adelaide have ended that way and either team may force a winning position on Tuesday.
The hosts, with a proud record at the Gabba, had established what appeared a winning position when Hussey and Haddin gave them a first-innings lead of 221 late on day three.
While he could not comment specifically on Apple, Steffen said there a number of factors beyond just taxes for investors to consider when determining what to do with a winning position.
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Contador, who threw away a winning position in the Paris-Nice stage race, showed he is back to his best form on home soil as he builds up to the Tour de France.
Once again we had batted ourselves into a winning position only for our middle and lower order to crumble resulting in a final innings total for England to chase that was 50 or so runs too short.
Pietersen's men got themselves into a winning position before Sachin Tendulkar almost single-handedly saw India to a six-wicket victory in the first Test, while England looked set to push India all the way in Mohali until the loss of Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff late on day three.
Patrick said winning a pole position in Kansas in 2005 was one of her top moments as an IndyCar driver.
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The company could shore up its market position by winning new business or buying other companies, but many observers in the industry think it will be in play the moment its spinoff is completed.
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The Blue Jays used a single and a sacrifice to put the winning run in scoring position with one out in the 10th but Kelley came on and got Rajai Davis to pop out, then got Melky Cabrera to ground out.
Martin says the key to winning the SEO game is to position yourself as an expert in your field.
Almost as bad as noncomputable problems are intractable ones (such as determining whether there is a guaranteed winning strategy for an arbitrary chess position), which cannot be solved in a reasonable amount of time.
He played in 61 games in his first two seasons with the Devils, winning 32, but the starting position will belong to Brodeur until he quits, if ever, and when the Stanley Cup playoffs begin and if the Devils are in them, the backup finds the bench.
The changing roles of men and women is not necessarily a bad thing, and to position it as one gender winning or losing seems to me unnecessarily harmful.
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As usual, Four Seasons has brought in a seasoned veteran to run the operation: GM James Kostecky comes from the same position at frequent award-winning sister hotels, Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai and Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand, and prior to joining the company, he worked in Kenya with a local hotel group.
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Tight-head prop Adam Jones is set for his 50th cap, while Roberts will be winning his fourth cap in a fourth different position, having already played at wing, full-back and inside centre for his country.
One is winning elections and keeping your candidates in a strong position to win the next time out.
When Cincinnati beat Connecticut 35-27, it moved West Virginia into position to earn a BCS bid by winning a three-way tiebreaker between the Mountaineers, Cincinnati and Louisville.
His party improved its position in the October 2008 election, winning 16 more seats than in the 2006 election, but still fell short of an overall majority.
That spectacular completion put Manning in the position to seal the deal with the winning end zone pass to Plaxico Burress with only 35 seconds left on the clock.
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Scotland's Andrew Oldcorn was way down in 199th position, just five year's after winning the tour's flagship event, the PGA Championship, at Wentworth.
While winning the lower house would put Mr Bersani in pole position to form a government, no coalition will be able to rule effectively without control of the Senate.
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