Sentence examples for given up as lost from inspiring English sources

"He is the bravest of the brave," said Napoleon when Ney, for weeks given up as lost, joined the main body of the frozen and shrunken Grand Army.

This epitaph for her had, in fact, been premature, originally prepared and recorded by him a few months earlier, when, as had been frequent lately, she seemed to be perishing and was given up as lost.

The book argues that, after 1968, the U.S. military improved its counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam so dramatically that a war most Americans had given up as lost could perhaps have been won if not for the collapse of political support at home.

Even mainframes, whose sales slipped 8percentt, are holding up well for a business that some industry experts gave up as a lost cause years ago.

The spread of HIV will not be stopped as long as drug use remains criminalized and as long as people who inject drugs are given up for lost.

About three to four expeditions gave up as they had lost sherpas or had sherpas who were injured.

She was so late, they had given her up as lost.

We may experience giving up work as losing our selves or at least a big chunk of who we are.

If we give up, who loses?

"He never gives up, as he showed today". Earlier, Britain's Jamie Murray and Australian John Peers lost in the doubles final.

Compassionate conservatism has not so much vanished as lost the limelight.Mr Bush could certainly have done more, but he has not given up.