In 1910, even Keir Hardie concluded that "the Labour party had ceased to count".
One day, Labour may indeed have had its last chance, and may cease to count.
Profits ceased to count, as revenue growth projections came to matter more.
In the words of an Admiralty paper published that year, if Britain didn't acquire nuclear submarines it would "cease to count as a naval force in world affairs".
But by the end of the 1950s, military victory had ceased to count.
Hereby, Japan could rather unequivocally be expected to cease to count as a separate power, because of it being too small, too deprived of resources and too militarily weak to survive in a world of civilizational blocs.
For the first time in decades, jobless workers are more likely to drop out of the labour force (and cease to be counted as unemployed) than to get a job (see chart).
Measured returns for the sector were boosted by survivor bias: failed funds ceased to be counted in the indices.In recent years, returns have been much less impressive (see chart).
Hell meant ceasing to hope.
They're ceasing to function.
