Sentence examples for lost the position from inspiring English sources

Considered briefly in late 1996 as a possible candidate for secretary of state, Holbrooke lost the position to Madeleine Albright.

Having lost the position of market leader to Nokia in 1998, Motorola's handset division is now catching up again.

"She lost the position that she loved and it's likely her career in parliament is substantially at an end.

"One bad game, one average match when he really hasn't done too much wrong and he has lost the position will be hard, hard to take".

In 1380 Gaston Phoebus was named lieutenant general of Languedoc by Charles V of France but upon the latter's death that same year he lost the position to the Duke de Berry.

But because of his civil rights activity and his refusal to answer questions when called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he said, he lost the position and, later, one at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark.

He now faces the prospect of losing the position after only one match in charge.

Although his performance reviews remained strong, Glover said he was denied a promotion to senior director in 2006, losing the position to Robinson.

This gives us a "breakdown" of the frequencies in the signal, but we lose the position of the frequencies, i.e., any information about when a particular frequency occurs is lost.

A rain spiced race and the retirement of Kimi Räikkönen, who was running third at the time, allowed Webber to claim third on the podium despite almost losing the position on the penultimate corner as he battled with Alexander Wurz.

Limitations A major problem is that if the patient suddenly moves too much, the binocular vision system will lose the position of the PWS lesion.