"They have been losing contests all around the state.
Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in Slupsk, has been fired for sending 38,000 text messages on his company cellphone in a losing effort to win a contest jackpot, a spokesman said.
What makes this moment in the first year of the age of Trump so extreme is that our strange new president, a man ready to turn everything (even the dead of America's wars) into a win-lose contest centered on himself, has taken the accumulated knowledge of the two potential human apocalypses and essentially tossed them out the window of Trump Tower.
After a draining practice session, Alonzo Mourning and half of the Nets team, mostly second-unit players, were making their way through the final strides of a set of suicide drills, punishment for losing a contest to the rest of the team Thursday at the Champion Center, the team's practice facility.
There he got 8% of the vote, but by losing a contest rather than resigning a seat he increased his House of Commons pension.
When he abandoned the campaign in May, Mr. Giuliani had just broken the fund-raising record of $21 million set by a nonincumbent candidate for Senate, Oliver L. North, a Republican who lost a contest in Virginia in 1994.
Even before the numbers were counted, Democrats were squabbling about who was to blame for Mr. Green's losing a contest that had once seemed in hand.
The tragedy is not that the U.S. is losing a contest with other countries, but that Americans are dying and suffering from illness and injury at rates that are demonstrably unnecessary.
After losing a contest, the +F fish were more likely to be tolerated by the winner near a shelter than the −F fish.
By far the strongest predictor of whether a male won or lost a contest was his size relative to the size of his opponent.
