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The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

Imagine, for instance, that you lost your bank card.

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

First trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

Subjects who learned the games in the morning lost some skills when they played again 12 hours later.

We are losing revenue as we speak, Donahoe said.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? They are culture-related.

From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.

Got a smart phone? Never lose your hotel key, or even have to stop at the registration desk again.

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

At their best, they are works of art and there is a tactile（触觉的）pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions.

The ability to quickly thumb through pages is also lost

The Unemployed Man and His Family, described a family in which the husband initially reacted to losing his job "with tireless search for work.

There are 20 officers in the Campus Security Division Their job is to handle crime, accidents lost and found items ,and traffic problems on campus.

In fact, when you break a role or law, you lose control over your life and give others the power to impose punishment that you have no control over.

may lose everything in the end

Many Americans lost faith in the integrity of their political leaders as a result of the Watergate scandal.

I have no money or insurance to get professional help; I can't even pay my mortgage (抵押贷款) and face losing everything.

And it would take an average of 65 years for the reduced carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one.

Once she lost a two-cent stamp and spent the night looking for it.

It has been losing market share in recent years.

The editor is frightened by this news, but he is more frightened by the idea of losing his newspaper, so he agrees to sign

Customers losing all sense of time.

This place doesn't look familiar at all, we must be lost.

Jane, suppose you lost all your money while taking a vacation overseas, what would you do?

He lost his mother two weeks ago

But after about 10 minutes my mind begins to wander and I lose concentration.

I really want to lose some of these belly fat and turn it into muscle, but I'm not sure which of the gym equipment would best help.

Many of the store group's 25,000 employees are likely to lose their jobs.

We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.

What they found was that it wasn't breakfast itself that caused the participants to lose weight: It was changing their normal routine.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

They gradually lose the habit of migrating in winterThey prefer rubbish dumps far away to those at home.

He had lost confidence in the Tennessee state government.

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

They may lose the respect of patients.

He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because 1 think it's bad for the healthcare budget in Massachusetts.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.

American higher education has lost its global competitiveness.

Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

I see now it's a huge pity that they rejected your request, but don't lose hope.

If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' "reasonable assistance" will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions, often quickly and brutally .

Pasta is no longer off the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate can form part of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight.

Researchers at small labs or at institutions focused on teaching arguably have the most to lose when sharing hard-won data.

So I've got nothing to lose.

Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.

Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

We can't really lose heat by breathing quickly and loudly like dogs.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world.

Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that lost dog.

Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! he didn't have food, water, a phone, or other supplies.

California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor (因素).

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.

For instance, astronauts lose bone mass.

He added that Jason lost money because he would not tell a lie.

He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn't lose too much water.

He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.

He said that if he quit the job, he would lose his drive to work and succeed.

His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time.

His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a christmas gift from his mother, a purple heart with the name corrado.

I doubted it, but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.

I felt that it would be a victory for us even if we lost the game.

I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as close to it as I am to my dogs, says ehlers.

I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking.

If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call lost & found at 202-962-1195.

It is only natural that we lose faith, trust and confidence in a person who is tardy.

It was in this lake that they found the long lost sword of the Ming Dynasty.

Just before september, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm.

Lose the interest to continue learning.

Many of Natalie's friends had lost their homes and were living far away.

Many people fear the gym because they feel lost and don't want to embarrass themselves.

Moran says one of the problems with Jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.

Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune.

My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 in support of a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger.

Natalie posted introduction about a boy named Patrick, who lost his baseball card collecting when his house burned down.

Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight.

On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, "lost my job".

Reading her biography, I was lost in admiration for what doris lessing had achieved in literature.

Rich countries gain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose.

Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we'd have to make an extra 10 cans each year.

Some friends had lost their lives.

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

The possibility of entering into and losing such a match should concentrate the minds of computer scientists.

They fear losing control of their workers.

They would define the driver's role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives would be lost.

We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost , it was not replaced.

We lose our sense of wonder.

We should not lose heart in face of difficulties.

When he was running after his brother, the boy lost his balance and had a bad fall.

When involved in deliberate play activities, children are less concerned with the outcome of their behavior whether they win or lose than with the behavior having fun.

When the polluting industries argue that we've lost the battle to control carbon pollution and have no choice but to adapt, it's a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.

Whether we've been suffer from, lied to, misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of losing trust.

Zac recently returned another lost medal to a family in Alabama.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

Losing a job is hurting: you don’t skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

Many of the ship were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey.

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women.

To realize how great was the dramatic activity, we must remember further that hosts of plays have been lost, and that probably there is no author of note whose entire work has survived.

And then the inevitable happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too harsh and does nobody any good.

If you consistently lose your cool with your kids, then you are inadvertently modeling a lack of emotional control for your kids.

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.