How we could lose, though, is if we lose it here, in Washington, if we lose our political will to stay the course and be victorious.
Economists such as Adam Posen have warned that slow growth begets slow growth: if we don't use it, we lose it. ( I explained this more clearly when he first made this argument, over a year ago).
We left it but we can never lose what it has given us.
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We could lose it, but Petr Cech saved a penalty with a fantastic save.
"It isn't whether we win or lose, it's that we enhance the fund for the victims, " Mr. Sheehan said.
We've known what it is to lose and we've known what it is to win, and we are determined to fight our way to win.
So I really hope everyone understands their own country's culture, or we'll lose it one day.
If we weren't in the EU, we'd lose it and wouldn't get it back from the UK government, said Mr Jones.
The most remarkable quality of freedom is that it encompasses so many aspects of our lives and we, regrettably, sometimes take our freedom for granted, until we could unfortunately lose it.
"If we don't do something about it we could lose an awful lot of talent, an awful lot of people who can contribute fantastically to the country and I just think that's wrong, " he said.
If we lose this one, it is all over for the rule of law in this country.
We had no power for two weeks, and now I'm afraid we are going to lose it again.
"We dare not lose as it was Andy last game and I'm delighted that he got the whole 80 minutes and he put in an excellent display, " said Melville.
"That is a huge achievement, and we must not lose sight of it, " Mr Kidney told MPs.
We theorized that it might lose its 60-year- old government-backed status, which allows it to borrow money cheaply.
But before I lose it, we should probably start the 250th briefing of the Obama administration with Mr. Feller.
Without it, we lose a valuable balance to the powers that be.
And even though we may now be living the American Dream, having gone to good schools and taken good jobs, we can never lose sight of the fact that it's the American Dream we're living, and not the Mexican one.
The second we let it seep in is the second we'll lose the next challenge.
But even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that we not lose sight of what led us into this mess in the first place.
Perhaps the most frequently heard argument in favor of permanent normal trade relations with China is that without it, we will lose the China business to foreign competitors.
When we see our goals in terms of what we can gain, rather than what we might lose, we are more likely to see a doomed endeavor for what it is, and try to make the most of a bad situation.
"Whether we win or lose we are reasonably confident going forward in the competition and I think it is important to play competitively, " said Dr Ferrucci.
And the fact that it was not as severe as it could have been may be true, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that many, many Americans were severely affected by it, and some lost their lives.
"It's a facility that we have had for 30 years and it seems harsh to lose it, " he said.
We would lose a terrific player, but it would give us funds to strengthen the team.
"If we had to choose a way to lose it would have been this way, " added Tabarez.
We look in the mirror and wonder what it would be like if and only if we could lose 15 pounds, had a smaller nose, longer eyelashes, a bigger (or smaller) chest, longer legs, so forth.
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