Sentence examples for lost portion from inspiring English sources

The lost portion of New York to which Jonathan Safran Foer refers ("The Sixth Borough," Op-Ed, Sept. 17) is really the seventh borough of New York.

Joined together, it would have made the front of the plinth square with its other sides, as indicated by dotted lines, and may be why the artist confined his inscription to the lost portion of the base.

For a covered trip interruption such as the Viking Sky incident, travel insurance can reimburse travelers for the lost portion of their trip expenses, minus refunds, and cover the cost of their extra accommodations and/or their trip home, up to the limits in their policy.

In a now lost portion of his Annals, Tacitus gave a detailed history of Caligula.

The later Christian chronicler Sulpicius Severus, possibly drawing on a lost portion of Tacitus' Histories, claims that Titus favoured the destruction of the Temple.

The lost portion of the protein is probably the most essential for its intracellular function, therefore its almost total absence might lead to a signal transduction interruption and to an inactive EGFR protein, thus rendering useless the TKI drug administration.

The tires have sometimes lost portions of their treads, and this has produced an above-average rate of property damage claims as well as requests by consumers to replace the tires under warranty, the person said.

In cases of great environmental perturbation (the bucket is sloshed so much that some of the contents are lost), portions of information space are eliminated, not just restricted in fitness space.

After cancer surgeries in 2006, Ebert lost portions of his jaw and the ability to speak, eat and drink.

Although the original work is lost, portions of it survive in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and Al-Tabari.

In addition to losing teeth, patients have lost portions of their soft tissue (a category that includes skin, ligaments, fat and tendons).