Many Republican donors who either reject Mr. Trump or simply fear he will lose believe that maintaining control of the Senate is their only hope of standing up to major policy changes with Mrs. Clinton in the White House.
But another group, resistant to change even as late as last year when eBay was clearly losing ground, believed that the brand was tied up in the excitement of auctions.
"We have a million and a half jobs lost, and I don't believe that's the best that we can do," he said.
Many other expats deliberately lose citizenship without formally renouncing, believing that way they evade the ban on visiting.
Instead of picking themselves up and rebuilding after 1948, instead of analyzing their defeat and understanding their adversaries, Shehadeh laments, Palestinians have spent the decades whining and pining, composing poetry to a lost world, believing that a rejection of compromise was evidence of virtue and wisdom.
Sheik Jabbar, 55, who also ran in the election but lost, said he believed that Mr. Habboubi was himself surprised by how well he did.
Ms. Guidry, who ran for bishop four years ago and lost, said she believed that the church was finally ready for a woman to be bishop.
While some mercantilists had argued that commerce is a zero-sum game in which when some gain, others necessarily lose, Montesquieu believes that commerce benefits all countries except those who have nothing but their land and what it produces.
Uncle Petros, after devoting his life to Goldbach's conjecture, finally lost hope when he believed that Goldbach's conjecture might be undecidable.
In the sorting out that always follows an election defeat, Democrats decided that Kerry had lost because many voters believed that neither he nor the Democratic Party shared their values.
