When the many who are merely good get the same top grades as the few who are truly brilliant, there are more winners than losers; marking more toughly creates the opposite.
Just in front of it and to the left is the 27-foot-high pedestal for the thank offering to Agrippa, the victor of the Battle of Actium, who interceded for Athens, which had supported the loser, Mark Antony.
Meantime, Mitt Romney, loser, was marking time on a folding red chair near a loading dock in the media area of the Xcel Energy Center in St . Paul
"Those chosen aren't always the best suited for the roles they are given, while the losers are marked for life".
The next general election is at least a year away, maybe two, but its outcome may be determined long before then; the winners, the losers, indelibly marked by the coming propaganda war of headlines.
The poles of no-mark loser and antisocial manic come together and reach their apotheosis in Irvine Welsh's groundbreaking Trainspotting.
On the international stage, beards tend to be the mark of a loser.
A perennial loser would definitely benefit from the mark-to-market rules — but then if you are a perennial loser, why are you day-trading?
These shows mark the twentieth anniversary of Loser's Lounge, one of New York's liveliest, funniest, and most musically satisfying institutions.
She describes Jesus as "our enemy," and her adherents call themselves Canaanites: "I saw that Mark of Cain on your forehead right away, that loser's mark," the pedophile tells Henry.
Now, in one of those clear-eyed moments that invariably hit after midnight, I see the future rising up before me, bringing loneliness and ruin, and marking me as a divorce loser.
