But take away its Olympic status and it loses its share of the IOC's broadcasting profits (£334m at London 2012), not to mention funding available from national governments.
If it loses its heart, if it loses its soul and it loses basically its story, then I can't watch it".
Its behavior depends on its gypsum content and it loses much of its strength when saturated.
When this happens, we surrender meaning to guardians of knowledge and it loses its personal value.
Ask Siri: "What's the meaning of life?", however, and it loses its nerve.
"Take fish off the bone and it loses its integrity," he said.
But remove a single pitch from one of those chords, and it loses its shimmer and sounds duller, less pungent, just not right.
Well, don't be: for one thing, the nettle is an ingredient that's been used for years, both here and abroad, and it loses its sting once blanched.
Taken alone, it would be a hell of a swansong ("Am I nowhere now?") but play it beside the feverish discontent of Killing a Little Time and it loses its soothing finality.
Mr. Gundlach, an art buff whose firm's conference rooms are named after famous painters, brushed aside TCW's attacks on his character by comparing them to an Andy Warhol car crash piece in which "you see the same thing over and over again and it loses its meaning".
"I hope we are not faced with another situation that no matter which candidate wins, that as soon as the election is over they kind of take a back seat and it loses its priority status that it seems to be receiving today," Mr. Aguilar said.
