Those fighting words marked Dole as a sore loser and he lost every primary that followed.

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They derided as "a sore loser" a man who waited only to make sure that he lost.

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Since 2009 he has vainly fought two battles to lead the DPJ, a sore loser who snipes at the prime minister but who no longer dares leave the party.

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Mr Fillon, who was prime minister under President Nicolas Sarkozy until his electoral defeat in May, has likened Mr Cope's allies to "a mafia" while his rival has described him as a "sore loser".

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I'm a particularly sore loser.

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McCain's future, in large measure, will depend on whether the voters in Michigan see his words through the prism of Theodore Roosevelt -- the heroic victim of dirty pool -- or through the prism of Bob Dole -- the snappish temper tantrum of a sore loser.

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