Sentence examples for have otherwise lost from inspiring English sources

While police and fire protection are paid for mostly by local communities, the federal help has allowed some cities to maintain services they would have otherwise lost.

The deep resentment against Washington that has already toppled a few Congressional incumbents this midterm election cycle and has helped persuade others to step aside could actually allow the parties to hang on to seats they might have otherwise lost.

Donald C. Alexander, a former I.R.S. commissioner who is lobbying for Bechtel, said the provision to help his client merely preserved a tax break that the engineering conglomerate would have otherwise lost.

On Cipro alone, for instance, Public Citizen, the consumer group, estimates that Bayer would get an additional $357 million in business that it could have otherwise lost to cheaper generic drugs.

Investigators assert that Mr. Dinh then used the information to concoct a trade in which he sold 7,200 of the soon-to-be worthless Cisco options for $5 apiece, saving himself about $37,000 that he would have otherwise lost when the options expired without a buyer a few days later.

Others like Irving and Anne Garfinkel show people to their seats or take tickets at the 1,400-seat 1,400-seat Theater in Englewood as a way to stay connected to a theatrical world with which they would have otherwise lost touch.

But he also knows that an alliance with Mr. Kaunda could give some sparkle to a governing party that has otherwise lost its luster.

Could they be a collective symbol for Chelsea itself, the heart of an art world that is generating plenty of cash these days but has otherwise lost its way?

As transport and technology continue to redefine our values about how we divide our time between work and home, family and friends and city and hinterland, the definition of luxury is likely to have less to do with space and time and more to do with living to scale in a world that has otherwise lost sight of the concept.

Since its founding in 1922, the society's members have collected, recorded, transcribed and performed black praise songs that almost certainly would have otherwise been lost — lost to the resort development of the barrier islands where Gullah culture thrived, lost to the amplified up-tempo sounds of urban gospel music that overwhelmed rural, a capella forms.

The dead, entombed bacteria thus formed an image of the soft tissues of the body, preserving features that would have otherwise been lost.