Sentence examples for lost a process from inspiring English sources

In Iran, Washington gambled on the emergence of a government that it could work with, and lost — a process that one member of the Obama cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, was deeply involved in as a young aide in the Carter administration.

Otherwise, genetic diversity will be lost, a process that might take only a few years in threatened populations (Mitrovski et al. 2008).

The first process is the originally proposed by Dowd and Pelitire (2001. Ind. Crops Prod. 14, 113) in which the mother liquor from the last crystallization step still contains an appreciable amount of gossypol which is lost as a process residual stream.

In other words, count-classifiers tend to come from words that once had specific meaning but lost it (a process known as semantic bleaching).

Some low-income countries are also feeling disappointed with jobs lost to a process called "the race to the bottom," where many poor countries deliberately decrease their labor standards to gain a comparative advantage in the global market.

On hydrothermal treatment, the granules swell significantly when water is abundant and the Maltese cross birefringence pattern is lost in a process known as gelatinization.

We added this complexity because it is well known that in a finite population, the most fit genotype can be (repeatedly) lost through a process called Muller's ratchet, thereby initiating a long-term decrease in viral fitness.

Our feature-based analysis revealed a high level of similarity between the three strains and identified genes that we suggest different strains of the spirochaete may have lost in a process of reductive genome evolution.

Taken from their families and the safety of home, these children, some no older than seven or eight when the LRA abducted them, had experienced the unthinkable, and in the process lost a big part of their childhood.

Alfredo, 16, said his grandfather had lost a hand in the process.

That's a polite way of saying that Microsoft grossly overestimated demand for its new devices and lost a bundle in the process.