The phrase "achievement lost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a goal or success has been forfeited or is no longer attainable.
Example: "After the unexpected setback, the team felt a deep sense of achievement lost, as their hard work seemed to have gone to waste."
Alternatives: "success forfeited" or "goal abandoned".
Wilson's gold medal was one of three won by Britain that day and, given the magnitude of Team GB's Olympic success, it would have been easy to assume he would become one of the forgotten champions, his achievement lost amid the triumphs of higher-profile athletes.
That Underworld will find a ravenous audience this weekend in Los Angeles is not an achievement lost on Hyde.
Reaching two finals is a monumental achievement; losing two is agony.
"A Golf Ball That Won't Slice Comes With a Catch: It's Illegal" (May 10) creates a world where achievement loses its meaning.
'He's never going to wear them again.' Those were the darkest moments but in terms of personal achievement losing the 300 mashed what little brains I do have".
That achievement loses a bit of its glamour, however, when you consider the winner was "Household Hacker" a web page that demonstrates how to create "quality items with little to no money and just a bit of imagination".
Volume II, "The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932," lost its dust jacket somewhere along the way, but otherwise they sit intact on a bookshelf within view, as they have always done.
Although his systems earned an Emmy for technological achievement, he lost control of Advent and then of a company he formed to sell the TV's, the Kloss Video Corporation, as consumers chose less expensive, simpler Japanese models.
In this week's magazine, Nathan Heller reviews William Deresiewicz's "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life," which argues that America's élite universities, while pushing students to ever higher levels of achievement, have lost sight of the real purpose of education.
[audio url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164737961"] In this week's magazine, Nathan Heller reviews William Deresiewicz's "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life," which argues that America's élite universities, while pushing students to ever higher levels of achievement, have lost sight of the real purpose of education.
It is an achievement not lost on director of rugby Jim Mallinder, who could not contain his pride after Saturday's narrow victory.
