There is nothing to suggest Plaid is about to improve on the three Westminster seats it is defending; it may even lose one.
To protest the superficially investigated and circumstantial case against him, on the other hand, was to risk being passed over for promotion, even losing one's "Q" clearance, which is essential for a career in nuclear weapons.
This is hardly a gimme for Stephens, who has ridden her luck at times in the first four rounds; she has dropped a set in her last three matches, even losing one 6-0 against Petra Cetkovska, and she had to recover from a set down against the Puerto Rican teenager, Monica Puig, yesterday.
If your page only has a few dozen likes, you might not even lose one; if it has a few million, that slight dip will feel a bit bigger.
You are learning what it means to have a friend or even lose one.
They willingly engage in fights, even losing ones, as part of their effort to place their kind of people on the bench.
Tournaments are battling for sponsors, and even Woods lost one of his major sponsors, General Motors, last year.
They had plenty to cheer about, even after Clemson lost one of its top players, defensive end Shaq Lawson.
Even Prachanda has lost one of his seats, as has another former-Maoist prime minister, Baburam Bhattarai, and a host of divisive figures, such as those from the vocal Madhesi ethnic group in the south.
