Sentence examples for it forfeiting from inspiring English sources

Such enjoyment overwhelms, and we have to give ourselves up to it, forfeiting fantasies of control, which is why words fail, and literary descriptions can seem inadequate, amusing and foolish.

Its circulation has plunged — last year it forfeited its title as the nation's most widely circulated newspaper on weekdays to The Wall Street Journal.

Bebop may have asserted jazz's right to be taken seriously as art, but it forfeited its claim to a mass audience, which deserted in droves to rock and pop.

If the state can't protect us, it forfeits its right to obedience and at least in this domain forfeits its sovereign legitimacy.

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 the tribunal is performing a crucial and valuable function through documenting what actually happened in the former Yugoslavia, it forfeits much of its raison d'etre without the big names in the dock.

Prada, on the other hand, was down by 3-0 to Alinghi of Switzerland when it forfeited the final race to send its boat, ITA-74, to the shed for an overhaul.

It's hard for a museum to recover when it forfeits the high ground.

An airline is usually able to walk away from an option deal if it forfeits the modest deposit paid.

Unlike a lot of self-consciously lyrical novels, it forfeits nothing in terms of humour or suspense, although no one goes anywhere in Housekeeping, either.

PokerStars, based in the Isle of Man, was also targeted by Bharara, but struck a deal last July that saw it forfeit $547m to the US authorities.