Sentence examples for lost its incentive from inspiring English sources

The company accused Microsoft of an unfair effort to change the terms of their business relationship after Windows NT gained a foothold in the market and Microsoft lost its incentive to foster the use of Unix.

The crux of the Premier League's concern is that ESPN will now lose its incentive to bid in the next round of auctions because it will have the option of buying content from Sky, at a fixed wholesale price, but that seems unlikely.

"The physical and the social must go together," he insists.The task force may have lost its battle over tax incentives, but its report has been influential in other areas.

Bettina Damiani, director of Good Jobs New York, a private watchdog group that tracks how the city uses incentives, says the city lost its grip with the building of the baseball stadiums.

When wildlife cannot be traded, it loses its value and thus the incentive for people to conserve it.

A simple way to understand what happened to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s is that a country with many strengths, especially a high average level of education, formidable technology and powerful social co-ordination within companies, came to lose its basic disciplines and incentives, particularly in the late 1980s when it experienced one of the biggest asset booms in world history.

With the incentive game losing its punch, the mission for U.S.-based manufacturers in 2003 is to hold as much ground as possible until they launch new models over the following two years.

First, scrub-jays do prefer earlier recovery, but with a delay as long as 7 min (the shortest used here) the incentive value of retrieval loses its ability to motivate discriminative caching.

Farmers had lost any incentive to work.

And, like the American farmers before them, Mexican, African, and Asian farmers lost the incentive for saving seed.

I've lost all incentive to do things, I no longer garden, I no longer do my woodwork, and I'm unable to swim.