Sentence examples for idea of loss from inspiring English sources

Taguchi begins with the idea of "loss function," a measure of losses from the time a product is shipped.

The very face, therefore, of the checks, negatives the charge of crime, and contradicts the idea of loss to the bank.

The second most successful used the idea of loss and was framed: "Three people die every day because there are not enough organ donors".

And the latest biography of Clover Adams, melodramatically subtitled "A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life," takes the idea of loss as the theme of her story.

But what I feel is a proxy for loss — an idea of loss, an idea of something that can never now be known.

("The art of losing isn't hard to master... ..) And Oscar Wilde's imperious Lady Bracknell offered her own censorious perspective on the idea of loss by observing that to lose both one's parents "seems like carelessness".

There follows our host's account of the honey scam, which finds a loophole in the idea of loss-leading sales in supermarkets, and drives a clown-car clean through it.

Ms. Dunkel, who was chairwoman of the Westchester Millennium Commission, which also involved a music competition, said she expected the work chosen for Sept. 11 to be "somewhat elegiac" and to conjure the ideas of loss and remembrance.

But I hope it at least introduces the ideas of loss, grief and moving on to little ones who will inevitably experience these things at some time, be it a goldfish or a grandparent.

There she hopped between refugee camps and foster homes, planting inside her an obsession with ideas of loss, belonging and the impermanence of place.

Just that whole idea of love and loss".