For a player whose game centers so much around speed, it could be a rapid decline once he loses a step.
Investors in those companies can tell you, once a company loses momentum it's hard to get it back.
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And once a company loses its youthful vigour, it behoves the founder to leave, watch it suffer, then return as saviour.
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That's because obesity leads to so many different diseases--diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, mental disease--that it's hard to separate out the reasons for the reduction in costs once the employee loses weight.
At 100mph, he says, Deuce loses whatever grace she once possessed and starts to handle more like a forklift careening across a skating rink.
Once it gets up to speed, it loses gusto, though.
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Once citral gets into this circular form, it loses its lemony scent and starts to stink.
But, once he boosts her to safer ground, he loses his foothold, his love gazing down at him from the ledge.
Einstein once observed that Westerners have a feeling the individual loses his freedom if he joins, say, a union or any group.
The simple version of his objection is that once a phone company knows your location, that information loses certain privacy protections, meaning law enforcement should be able to get access to it.
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If something is ever going to take the place of Facebook once the company gets so big and complacent that it loses focus, it will probably be something built on top of Facebook.
Every once in a while, some Trademark owner or the other loses rights because it becomes so famous that people starting calling the article by the trademarked name.
Meeting the queen means McGuinness loses the legitimacy of hardcore Republicans -- he can no longer sway them as he once did.
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If he loses early a few times, he might not feel quite as comfortable as he would like once he arrives in Paris.
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