He then scored a smashing victory on August 27, driving the Americans into their Brooklyn works and inflicting a loss of about 1,400 men.
I told the House two months ago that whereas in France our fighter aircraft were wont to inflict a loss of two or three to one upon the Germans and in the fighting at Dunkirk, which was a kind of no-man's-land, a loss of about three or four to one, we expect that in an attack on this island we should achieve a larger ratio.
My mother and father seem to believe they are inflicting a terrible loss on me by disappearing from my life".
Mr Leeson was the rogue trader who brought down Baring Brothers, a British merchant bank, in 1995; Mr Rusnak inflicted a $690m loss on Allied Irish Banks earlier this year.
Soon afterward, their naval supremacy also collapsed when the ships of the ambitious Hieron I of Syracuse inflicted a devastating loss on their fleet off Cumae in 474 bce.
If China continues to amass reserves at its current pace, they calculate, a 33% appreciation of the yuan at the end of 2006 might inflict a capital loss of almost 15% of GDP.Losses on such a scale would be deeply unsettling to any central banker used to the quiet life.
Woking boosted their play-off hopes by inflicting a sixth loss in seven games on Conference bottom club Telford.
Kurt Zouma polished the script for the hosts, powerfully heading into the top corner to inflict a fifth loss in six FA Cup ties for Watford against Chelsea.
But despite making seven changes to the line-up, his side had little trouble inflicting a first loss of the season on Sunderland.
It is a bad feature of incoherent betting quotients, whether or not they correspond to such degrees of belief, that in a forced betting situation they provide the opportunity for a clever bookie to inflict a sure loss, and guarantee it in competitive ones with a utility-maximizing opponent.
