Sentence examples for forfeited everything from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Berenson gives Wells — or Jalal, as he's known in his jihadi incarnation— a Muslim Lebanese grandmother to make his increasing belief in Islam credible, and a pretty C.I.A. handler, Jennifer Exley, who has also forfeited everything for an ungrateful agency, to doubt and love him simultaneously.

Auster's novel The Music of Chance posits a situation so Kafkaesque that it can only be seen as a deliberate borrowing: two men, having forfeited everything in a card game to a pair of wealthy eccentrics, are forced to build a huge, functionless wall; after months of working for freedom, they find themselves in deeper debt, from which the only liberation is death.

In an ego-centric world where most don't sacrifice, she has forfeited everything for her family.

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After studying the videotapes, Cayne announced that he would drop Fisher and Schwartz from his team unless they were vindicated, and that he would willingly forfeit everything he had won while they were employed by him.

Meanwhile, Lord Browne's memoir, Beyond Business, describes Fridman as second in command in the Russian state and a tough negotiator: "He would give you the feeling that he would rather forfeit everything than give up on a single crucial point," he wrote.

A U.S. serviceman or woman serving in the armed forces forfeits everything, including possibly his or her life to serve the United States.

They forfeited the championship.

Five have forfeited games.

The company forfeited $20m.

He forfeited nearly half his $8.5 million salary.

Drew forfeited two years' worth of compensation.

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