"If we relax our patrols even a little bit, we would lose many tigers to poachers, " he said.

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Lose that and we lose what makes many businesses great.

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We'd lose on many, but would have unlimited upside on others.

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How many more will we lose over the next seven years?

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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.

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How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction?

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Often, the truth is stretched, and many of us are easily persuaded that we can lose weight or live longer by swallowing pills or nibbling on herbs.

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Throughout my 12-year Ireland career there have been many ups and downs but to lose a game we could, and should, have won ranks as one of the hardest defeats to take.

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Unfortunately, many of us lose touch with that inborn curiosity as we become adults.

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And unless we do, we will also slowly (and then not so slowly) begin to lose many of our best service industry and information technology jobs, too.

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The problem, in a nutshell, is simply this: when making decisions, lately many of us have been focused much more on what we have to lose than on what we might gain.

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With so many of our companies changing course along the way, sometimes dramatically, we lose touch.

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There are a whole range of things that may work, in some cases may not work, but we've got to try some new things because right now too many of our kids are stuck, and we can't afford to lose them.

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The group, We Are Spartacus, said tougher rules to assess how far people can walk mean many claimants will lose help with transport from April.

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Many of us get so caught up in our day-to-day duties that we lose sight of whether we're on the right path to begin with.

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