The phrase "act of losing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or experience of losing something, whether it be a game, a competition, or a more abstract loss.
Example: "The act of losing can often teach us valuable lessons about resilience and perseverance."
Alternatives: "process of losing" or "experience of loss".
Beyond a certain age, every act of losing gets subjected to an extra layer of scrutiny, in case what you have actually lost is your mind.
The maxim "Loss makes you more unhappy than gain makes you happy" would lead you to believe that the characters would turn out very, very unhappy, but the state of loser-dom should be differentiated from the act of losing.
But their real achievement may be psychological: they have remade the architecture of gaming itself, creating spaces that allow people to enjoy the act of losing money, thus encouraging them to lose even more.
For instance, the simple act of losing track of time could cost you everybody's good time, beginning from the moment you decide to mail out invitations.
1) Every time you lose 50percentt, it takes 100percentt gain to get back to even, and, 2) while "low" interest gains look unimpressive at first glance, the simple act of avoiding losing years means that, in the end of the 12-year cycle, the conservative strategy outperforms the aggressive one by a long shot, since the principal has continually compounded without dramatic fluctuation.
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who get private health coverage through the Affordable Care Act would be at risk of losing it under the replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans, analysts said Tuesday, with Americans in their 50s and 60s especially likely to find coverage unaffordable.
Three weeks later, Obama's signature law, the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), is in danger of losing public confidence and the enrollment numbers it needs to meet its promise of cheap, quality insurance.
People motivated by this second fear will act rightly out of fear of losing material goods or fear of the torments of hell, but not out of good or right intention: "he does not merit grace who serves not his love of justice but his love of things or his fear of punishment" (Sen 261.23-25).
Small Ne, however, may act to increase the chances of losing some lethal or sub-lethal mutations through genetic purging.
When we first meet her, she is in the act of getting lost – on a plane to Casablanca, on the run from Florida.
The clergy who refused to conform to the compulsory form of worship that had been promulgated by Elizabeth in 1559 (as the Act of Uniformity) lost their pulpits or were imprisoned.
