Sentence examples for lost thanks to from inspiring English sources

The miners lost thanks to lack of support from the trade unions; this must not be allowed to happen again.

Perhaps elderly workers picked up some of the hundreds of thousands of jobs that teenagers and other unskilled workers lost thanks to the minimum wage increases?

It burns right into the backyards of some homes, but no structures are lost, no lives are lost, thanks to the coordination of multiple fire units.

"There was only one perfect garden," he would reply, "and that was lost thanks to the persuasive charms of a woman and a man's taste for apples".

Mars Climate Orbiter, an unmanned probe that was supposed to start circling its eponymous planet in September, was lost thanks to a mix-up by its flight controllers over imperial and metric units.

In their deliberations, members of the charter commission talked repeatedly about a precious commodity, public trust, how it had been lost thanks to the politicians and how it had to be restored.

As in football, winning games means more money for a team but so does losing, thanks to a system in which the richest baseball clubs pay millions of dollars to the poorest.

Pleasingly, the book historian Stephan Füssel, in the explanatory paperback that accompanies the two-volume facsimile, reports that in 2004, when a fire swept through the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, in Weimar, where this copy was housed, it was "rescued, undamaged, with not a second to lose, thanks to the courageous intervention of library director Dr. Michael Knoche".

It is from gambling at which almost everyone loses, thanks to the irrevocable laws of probability.

For employers, March is likely to make them mad over how much money they're losing thanks to worker distraction.

(Oceana also has a very telling and alarming infographic detailing just how much you could be losing thanks to fish fraud).