Sentence examples for it forfeits from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

He has neither.The uncomfortable reality, of course, is that when a government looks politically doomed, as Mr Brown's does, it forfeits diplomatic clout: why cultivate a prime minister who may soon get the push?

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.

It forfeited much of its authority and reputation last year, when a previous team of commissioners resigned amid allegations of nepotism and petty corruption.

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.

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.