According to Ratanjit, if we stop living our values, we will not only lose esteem, but sacrifice our greatest natural resource, as well.
Fears about losing esteem and feeling inferior to others because of strabismus and the associated poor cosmetic appearance may be a driving factor.
Never judge someone before meeting them, as this is the quickest way to lose a potential friend or beneficial relationship, and also the quickest way to lose esteem in someone else's eyes.
Senator Tom Daschle, who had named him chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Mr. Torricelli had not lost any esteem among his colleagues.
At one point he tries to impart the essence of leadership to Hollum (Lee Ingleby), a timorous young midshipman who has lost the esteem of the men.
No judicial proceeding can repay Richard Barlow for his lost years, his shattered career, and his lost self-esteem.
I lost self-esteem and became increasingly careless about my own safety.
Such an experience is confusing to the victim and, having lost self-esteem or freedom, the person develops a strong emotional connection to the abuser.
Thoreau isn't against self-esteem (he admires a friend who has learned to "treat himself with ever increasing respect"); but his main task is to lose his esteem for society in which "trade curses everything it handles" and the singular natural resource of time is wasted in barren productivity.
"Mafia Cop" was published in 1992, but the events it describes conclude in 1985, with Eppolito's acquittal, and with the restoration of his job — for which he'd lost nearly all esteem.
