America can only lose participating in an ongoing sectarian war in which even its allies are adversaries: Shia-dominated Iraqi military, local Sunni tribes, Kurdish Peshmerga, Sunni Turkey's military, and Iran-backed Shia militias.
Which is very well how you might appear and sound too, if you had been trudging for days through unfamiliar forest, hungry and lost, after participating in a battle that you don't know whether you've won or lost.
3 While war related death tolls for combatant nations of the first world war have been produced, we have found no estimates for the war related life lost per participating soldier.
It may be that advantages of interviews kept these patients in the study while such patients were lost when participating by questionnaires, in which no additional explanation could be provided to patients doubting whether the topic of the research was applicable to their situation.
This time around, Mr. Romney's advisers believe they have less to prove — and more to lose — by participating in the summer's unofficial straw poll.
Manny Conditsis, a lawyer who represented Monis at one point, has decribed his former client as an isolated figure who might have felt that he had nothing to lose, "hence participating in something as desperate and outrageous as this".
"I get plenty of criticism, whether I'm winning, losing or participating.
In the process the stakes may become so fuzzy that participants risk losing interest in participating and may 'exit' or 'voice' in different fora.
Reviews of the behavioural weight loss intervention literature have alluded to the fact control group participants may lose weight through participating in an intervention trial [ 12].
They have not only lost opportunity to participate in sport, but they have lost their life.
