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If there is stalling, it is because liberalising completely would mean forfeiting forever what limited bargaining power Hong Kong has over the Americans.
Now that the entire neighborhood has united against me, I realize, too late, the tightness of its makeshift society, and am sad to have forfeited it forever.
"Any conservative Christian who stays at home in November and allows Hillary Clinton to become the next President has forever forfeited his right to speak out about the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, or religious freedom," Jeffress says, mustering a preacherly combination of sorrow and wrath.
It was not the way things were supposed to have been, but because Jim had been cowardly, because he hadn't had the courage just to kill himself before Roy returned, he had missed the moment, the one moment he had to make things right, and he forfeited that moment forever and handed over the pistol to Roy and asked that he fix things in the way that he could, even though it was not the right way.
"By the same token, having had consensual sex with someone once does not mean a woman has forever forfeited her right to withdraw or refuse her consent to further sex with that person.
He must choose one to guide him on earth, thereby forfeiting the other forever.
"If we turn this war, which was heralded to the world as a war of humanity, in any sense into a war of conquest, we shall forever forfeit the confidence of mankind," Schurz wrote President McKinley in the spring of 1898.
How many undocumented immigrants might accept legal status as "good enough," even if the price is forever forfeiting the chance to actually participate in American democracy?
"And it has forfeited the moral high ground forever".
They asked, "Is there human life which has so utterly forfeited its claim to worth that its continuation has forever lost all value both for the bearer of that life and for society?" [ 2].
She somehow never forfeited the adulation of her fellow Americans but remained fixed forever in their imagination as the grieving heroine who had restored America's pride after the shame of Jack Kennedy's assassination.
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