Today is a special day for me in tennis, even if I lost that match.
You also should have the means to pay off or refinance the loan completely before the 0% rate expires, even if you lost your job, had a health-care crisis or experienced some other financial emergency.
Cuts in interest rates and in taxes, both before the attacks and after, seem to have helped maintain growth in consumer spending by ramping up house prices and making employees confident that even if they lost their jobs they would quickly find new ones.
The thing about piracy that is often left unsaid is that not all of those pirated copies would convert into game sales even if we could eradicate piracy entirely. 4 million pirated copies of a game is not the equivalent of 4 million lost sales, even if it may indeed represent lost revenue.
FORBES: Crytek: It Would Be 'Awesome' If Next-Gen Consoles Blocked Used Games
Ultimately, the House of Representatives could elect the next president, even if that candidate lost the popular vote.
And there's another thing: even if Barclays had lost the vote, it would not have been binding on the bank.
BBC: Do investors have the power to curb excessive bosses' pay?
That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
The point is that even if jobs were lost, we cannot assume that all those people would suddenly be out of work.
The government was expected to win easily - and even if it had lost, the result would not be binding on ministers.
An overall reduction in energy subsidies would encourage conservation and could reduce carbon emissions, even if renewable energy lost out in the deal.
We were very confident of winning the case, but even if we had lost there would have been a certainty to it, now it just drags on.
BBC: Ridsdale faces an uncertain period of financial juggling
In addition, even if they have lost their jobs, particularly in construction, Legaspi adds, they tend to pick up other employment, even at lower wages, often in the underground economy.
The idea is that even if some packets get lost amid the noise, enough will slip through to be reassembled as a coherent signal at the destination.
Union estimates of 30, 000 public sector job losses in the North East look a reasonable guess, even if some will be lost through natural wastage rather than forced redundancies.
Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor, explained to today presenter sarah Montague that even if David Cameron "lost" on getting the freeze that he will be looking for, the increase that would come into place over the next few years "is actually very small" in comparison to the increase that the UK has had to pay in recent years.
That was a bit of a shock, even if they should never have lost the game.
Acer Chromebook customers are offered up to 100GB of free Google Drive storage for the first two years after purchase, so files, documents, photos and more are stored safely in the cloud even if the Acer C7 is lost, damaged or stolen.
ENGADGET: Acer unveils C7 Chromebook, portable cloud computing for just $199
Features such as Advanced Theft Protection (ATP), a system platform that is resistant to deep-level hacking and the optional embedded Trusted Platform Module (TPM) help ensure that even if the STYLISTIC Q550 is lost or stolen, the data it carries remains protected.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu's Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet: orders kick off tomorrow starting at ��699
In effect, moving to nominal GDP targets would send a signal that the Bank was determined to get back the nominal growth in the economy that has been lost, even if it is at the cost of pushing inflation above 2% for a sustained period of time.
The motives of a banker who would have lost his job even if bets like these had paid off are also unclear.
In her post-race meeting with Stewart, co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, Patrick was told she made the right move and probably would have lost even more ground if she had tried something.
Since taxpayers remain on the hook for pension benefits promised, even if all the pension money is lost as a result of bad investment decisions, they alone will pay the price when dice-rolling decisions of public fund boards turn ugly.
FORBES: City Garbage Collectors Become Sophisticated Hedge Fund Investors
"It would be extremely difficult to prove damages for 'lost innovation, ' even if there are damages, " says New York University law professor Eleanor Fox.
Supporters like this aspect because they say it would force the Bank of England to do more, right now, to make up the economic ground lost since 2007, even if inflation overshoots.
Even if up to a quarter of the qubits were lost, a quantum computer could still work.
FORBES: Teeny-Tiny Quantum Computers Take A Step Closer To Reality
After another three months, revisit to see if the pills could help with even more weight lost.
FORBES: A Pill To Burn Away Pounds: The FDA Says Yes To The First New Weight Loss Drug In 13 Years
But I've also learned that sometimes other things are lost, as well, and even if they don't matter as much as the human suffering, they matter just the same.
Concorde's commercial life is clearly drawing to a close: even if flights eventually resume, it will be difficult to rebuild lost confidence among passengers.
Some will always want to go ahead with treatment even if their child may be severely damaged - especially if they have lost many pregnancies and that baby represents a last chance.
BBC: NEWS | Have Your Say | Premature baby report: Your views
Even if there is another bail-out of around 110bn euros, Greeks have lost faith in the plan.
应用推荐