"I originally got into trouble because I was working when I got the mortgage, but I lost my job.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"Our people are brutalized and killed,and I lost 21 of my family members in one day."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Once I lost my job, everything started to go downhill from there."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"During Katrina,I lost everything - everything here brand new-brand new."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

On the South Side of Chicago, I worked with families who had lost jobs and lost hope when the local steel plant closed.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

"I'd lost a lot of championships before that year, so that was a special game."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

"I'm saying that this money, this opportunity that could be lost if it's not used will not happen to you again for another ten years,ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

he explained, "but I've lost my way.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

I believe many Africans are still focused on that promise, whereas we may have lost sight of it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

He says the company has lost its way. "I think they've grown complacent, resting on their laurels."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

We've lost 90 percent of those since 1950. I began,as we surfed down the coast, to see where the resorts were put in.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"I have lost a total of 41 pounds. I feel amazing, stronger and more energy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

I felt as though I wasn't myself anymore, I felt I had lost everything,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25