But after banks return the TARP money, the administration will forfeit much of its leverage over them.
By ruling in favor of Walker's squalid politics, the state Supreme Court has forfeited much of its legitimacy and endangered fair elections.
It forfeited much of its authority and reputation last year, when a previous team of commissioners resigned amid allegations of nepotism and petty corruption.
If Washington encroaches on our states, we will forfeit much of what makes us different, and special, and unique from all the nations on the Earth".
To meet those requirements, G.M.'s brands began sharing not only parts but engineering strategies, in the process forfeiting much of their personality.
Once installed, she quickly forfeited much of her popularity by authorising an FBI attack on a religious cult in Waco, which ended in the deaths of more than 80 cultists.
Israel, which has long followed a policy of retaliation against terrorism, has not thereby won security—and the United States, incidentally, has forfeited much of its goodwill in the Muslim world by its inability to persuade the Israelis to pursue negotiation.
Yet at this very moment the most powerful country in the world stands to forfeit much political capital, moral authority and international good will by dragging its feet on the next great global issue: the environment.
Now, however, it is possible to document the close ties between the national network of major conservative donors backing Walker and the conservative lobbying groups that turned the Wisconsin court into a political tool, which forfeited much of its remaining legitimacy with last week's ruling.
She knows that if she did speak out she would forfeit much sympathy among Burmans and undermine her hopes of restoring democracy and coming to power.The generals' strategy might help them, but it will jeopardise the vital contribution that industrious and commercially-minded immigrant communities could still make to the impoverished country.
