Old methods that have lost their credibility must be abandoned.

Discredited businesses cannot be replaced overnight.

The Commission on Human Rights has lost its ability to act effectively on behalf of victims, and thus its credibility.

Discredited regimes may cling all the more ruthlessly and ruinously to power, as in Syria.

The notion of violent jihad in which more Muslims are killed than any other kind of people is already thoroughly discredited.

largely because the U.S. government had lost most of its credibility in their trumped up claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

In the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon, France was heavily in debt, and the revolutionary regimes had discredited themselves through paper currency (assignat) inflation.

Third, in Britain at least, the entire political class has been discredited by a sleazy scandal about the expenses that many parliamentarians have paid themselves. Analogies with pigs, snouts, and troughs fill the pages of British newspapers.

Beijerinck maintained that viruses were liquid in nature, a theory later discredited by Wendell Stanley, who proved they were particulate.

In Pakistan, a discredited military was forced by public opinion to withdraw from power, creating political space for elected representatives.

With most of the political class discredited, and containing many members who had more or less collaborated with the enemy, Gaullism and Communism became the most popular political forces in France.

I lost my head, I lost myself.

Eurozone leaders temptation to revert to earlier, discredited models of European relationships was bearable for a time, but it has now reached the limit of its tolerability.

The traditional political class, which had included all the right wing parties plus the Radical Socialist Party that symbolized the Third Republic (1871 1940), was completely discredited by 1944.

This is also the source of its credibility.

They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

Countercyclical fiscal policy had been largely discredited because of the delays involved in implementing fiscal changes and households weak response to temporary tax cuts.

We believe that both arguments are credible.

The United Nations must regain its credibility.

The bow wow theory is largely discredited as an account of the origin of language, though some contemporary theories suggest that general imitative abilities may have played an important role in the evolution of language.

I've lost my ticket.

I've lost my bag.

She lost her purse.

I lost consciousness.

I have lost my wallet.

All is lost.

Sheís lost it.

I lost my head.

Have you lost your mind? I have.

I lost my position.

I feel a little shaken.

You passed out.

You lost your ship?

I've lost contact.

I lost my horse.

You lost your sidekick.

Lose something?

The Treaty must be strengthened and its credibility improved.

What I want to do is throw ash on the Imperial Family's dignity.

I had massive blood loss.

She lost her handbag.

I lost my trust in him.

I lost my trust in him.

She's lost her car keys.

I got mad.