With a body like an oil drum, and a retinue of gunmen around him, he prowls the streets of Kabul looking less like a banker than like a footballer lost in a war zone.
In 1878 the Ottomans lost a war against Russia and consequently some parts of Serbia became independent.
It also lost a bidding war with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in 2007 for a stake in Facebook.
The nephew of a World War I soldier who lost a postcard while being treated in a military hospital nearly 100 years ago has been traced.
The Germans even shot a propaganda movie, although they lost the war before they had a chance to show it around Europe.
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As the conflict darkened and as many men lost their lives in what seemed like a never ending war, many lost faith.
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Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago.
As the junior allies, British officers felt they could do nothing in Basra to change the course of a war being lost, they thought, by American troops in Baghdad.
Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war.
Cathcart specialises in exposing fake spiritualists, but she is also grieving for a fiance she lost in the war.
She and her new husband, a war veteran who lost half of one foot to a land mine, bought a Mercedes van and have added a second floor to the home they inherited.
The last really big strikes in Germany date back to 1984, when a post-war record of 5.6m days were lost in a single year, as workers throughout what was then West Germany downed tools in support of a 35-hour week.
Mrs Fernandez Meijide, whom many fancy as the alliance's presidential candidate for 1999, lost a son during the dirty war and has never learned his fate.
Few people know that when Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, he was on a U.S. Navy mission to hunt down a nuclear submarine lost during the Cold War.
He has since read through many of them, each between 1, 500 to 2, 000 words long, and has written about them in a new e-book: MI7b - the discovery of a lost propaganda archive from the Great War.
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Serbia, which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999, does not accept its independence.
Serbia - which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999 - does not accept its independence.
Americans have lost sight of a basic truth: war is not launched by technology, whether by spears or inter-continental missiles, but by human beings who make a decision to fight or not.
Reid believed that the War in Iraq was lost a few years ago.
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In 1982, after Argentina invaded the islands, it fought -- and lost -- a two-month undeclared war with Britain.
Figure after World War II Germany had lost a generation of its best people, its infrastructure was destroyed, and many of its citizens were living in caves.
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The result was a three-year war, which they lost, followed by new, much stricter laws that, among other things, stripped the church of its land and abolished monasteries and convents.
Defending Freedom However heady the appeal of a call to arms, however just the cause, we should still shed a tear for all that will be lost when war claims its wages from us.
However, the commentator says that this time, his party, the Il Popolo della Liberta (PdL) or The People of Freedom, will be less likely to spring to his defence, as it is now beginning to see Mr Berlusconi's war against the judiciary as a lost cause.
That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
Meanwhile, much of the stock of arms and ammunition available to the Tigers was lost in the recent war, so a new group would have to start from a poorly supplied base.
So we can't agree on a history where everyone won the war and no one lost it.
The war over MTs in games was lost a long time ago before they ever arrived in games.
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It has been a long war, and the American public has understandably lost interest, but these soldiers have not lost their devotion to the mission or their country.
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