This is the term that armies use when they've lost a battle.

As lenders, banks lose when borrowers default.

But to do that you have to lose all the other qualities because once you're into beauty you're into a finished thing.

Never mention winning. My idea is that you can lose when you outscore somebody in a game.

Business loses opportunity, government loses credibility and society loses most of all.

You have to be able to lose without losing everything.

Renzi s Choice, Europe s Loss

China s Losing Battle Against Corruption

Is China Losing the Diplomatic Plot?

The United States also loses.

And I tell you, when you lose a lot of oxygen and our oxygen went down quite far it went from 21 percent down to 14.2 percent my goodness, do you feel dreadful.

Is the US Losing Latin America?

Will the US Lose Latin America?

Party and state bureaucracies will lose power (and income).

If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit.

Almost every social security system in the region is losing money.

In cultures where girls and women are married off and chastity is central to womanhood, all is lost for a woman who loses her honor.

You should lose points for not doing this on time.

Governments fear that they will lose credibility with financial markets.

And, in the denouement, the state loses control of its province as the secessionists declare independence.

Democracy today has no rivals, but it is losing support.

The evidence is clear big countries can lose small wars.

How can America recover international legitimacy?

The Russian ships sank all four transports without losing a ship.

But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.

So they do not lose much, if anything, from the PBC s sterilization policies.

Instead of hundreds of dead civilians, the Israelis were losing one or two a day.

But this argument is clearly losing the battle for hearts and minds.

During 1982, 1983, and 1984, Navratilova lost a total of only six singles matches.

The first 15 of those were won without losing a set.

But if instead you bet that there is no God, then you can lose it all, in this life and the life to come.

Realists observe that in the long race between the environment and technology, it appears that technology has so far been losing.

A forest that never burns eventually loses species capable of withstanding fire.

Democracy and human rights will then likely lose their luster as global norms.

Afghanistan s government is losing ground in its struggle against a revived Taliban.

Essentially, he said this if you bet on God, and open yourself to his love, you lose nothing, even if you're wrong.

Moreover, the Snowden affair reinforces the perception that the US is losing its sway in South America.

There has not been a single session in recent years in which at least some days were not lost to deliberate disruption.

In ten years or so, however, Japan could lose its status vis à vis the rest of Asia.

and María Quinteras, who made a pact with the Devil and lost not a single battle. Men obeyed her orders. Among them, her husband.

Most call it a trade disaster because it could not retrieve the cost of its budget, making Adlabs lose over .

And I thought about it, and I said, CEOs often pay themselves million dollar bonuses, even when companies are losing a lot of money.

If the advanced country scenario is right, many developing countries will lose out and experience sharply diminished growth.

Today s marches and demonstrations are a feeble reminder of those times, while parties everywhere are hemorrhaging members.

It is a policy that is governed by the head rather than the heart, but in the process India is losing a little bit of its soul.