As extra Labour lobby fodder, they would lose much of the influence they now possess.
Short-term greedy people almost always lose much more than they win, certainly over the longer term.
No wonder auction-houses and flea-market operators fret that they may soon lose much of their business.
France, which never liked the pact in the first place, would not lose much sleep over that.
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Banks also stand to lose much of the money they currently make from moving money around for customers.
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Maybe so, but Morton can't afford to lose much business to the upstarts.
Neither political party wants to lose much power in mid-terms anyway, but 2014 will be a particularly feisty battle.
While bonds might lose value during a market crash, they will lose much less value than stocks, reducing overall losses.
Not only will Disney soon lose much of that, but it will be faced with a new competitor in its ex-partner.
Outside the EU, Britain would lose much of its international political clout.
It was a bitter defeat for Falcone, who made billions of dollars for himself and his investors betting against subprime mortgages, only to lose much of it trying to build the next big cellular-telephone network.
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What to me is a fairly radical, albeit logical, change from the evocative and even possibly iconic SARA LEE brand to HILLSHIRE BRANDS (FARMS) seems to lose much of its flavor when all of that is undone by the corporate meat-centric-ness of the transaction.
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The thrill of reaching Thorong La pass, which once took an inspiring two weeks, will be shortened to two days, and this epic and emotional day, which haunts you in the most motivating way, will lose much of its glory if reached by such an industrial path.
Goran Tunhammar, head of the employers' club, says Swedish companies are only adapting to a global market where top dogs at American and British companies, for instance, get much bigger salaries than their Swedish counterparts and lose much less than the 60% that high-earning Swedes pay in income tax.
They cannot afford to lose too much ground because having a home semi-final will be crucial.
Business leaders feared they would lose the much-needed revenue an extra week of shopping would afford them.
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It stands to lose as much as 19.6% of estimated earnings per share this year in his doomsday scenario.
Those now in their 30s could lose as much as 50% by the time they retire in the 2030s.
Lehman Brothers could lose as much as 12.6% of its 2007 earnings per share for its exposure, according to Hendler's calculations.
Merrill Lynch could lose as much as 6.5%, Morgan Stanley 5.4% and Goldman Sachs 4.3%, he wrote in a note Monday.
Oil trading consultant Lipow suspects that to lose so much money Semgroup must have ventured beyond mere futures contracts into options.
And so the best we can do there is to try to help them find other options and not lose too much money.
Although he needs middle-of-the-road support if he is to retain the prime ministership, he cannot afford to lose too much of the far right.
Analysing a labour market in which workers demanded more work for lower wages, or employers wanted to lose as much money as possible, would present some difficulties.
If the merger flops, you'd probably lose this much or more, since news that the deal is off will probably send Compaq shares down and HP shares up.
All budgets have winners and losers, and on this occasion the losers didn't actually lose very much, but this chancellor has found it hard to concede any ground whatsoever.
Older people who lose too much weight increase their risk of falls and fractures, said Greenwood, who studies diet and the brain but was not involved in the current research.
"Alcohol makes you lose heat much more quickly and makes it harder to regain heat afterwards, so don't drink until you come out of the water and rewarm, " says Traill.
And both private sector as well as public sector economists are estimating that we could lose as much as six-tenths of a point, maybe a little bit more, of economic growth.
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