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The authors also speculate that high inequality might lead higher-income people to worry more about losing their elevated status and thus hoard their money, because they have further to fall in a highly unequal area.

As a status symbol, even as a sign of gentility, they've lost their standing.

For many reasons ordinary freemen tended generally to lose their independence and had to seek aid from their more fortunate and powerful neighbours; thus, they lost their standing in the assemblies of their tribe.

One might argue that concinnous reactions still reflect the self/non-self distinction, because 'abnormal' cells have lost their standing as legitimate members of the host.

The cuts also came just before the Gurkhas lost their long-standing home base, Hong Kong, with the handing-back to China of the territory in 1997.

Eight US servicemen lost their lives; Carter's standing never recovered.

When this occurred, while they were no longer required to serve in the army, they also lost their political and economic standing.

They are stars who can even fail a few times (in commercial terms) without losing their standing.

Admitting to something like torture and losing their perceived moral standing is a big risk to their national identity.

Surveys by the Red Cross revealed that roughly 200 homes in the city were severely damaged or destroyed and those left standing lost their roofs.

Ben-Men-I cells (Figure 2A) and, to a somewhat lesser degree, PMECs (Figure 2B) exposed to elevated pressure lost their high endocytotic activity.