Sentence examples for lost to maintain from inspiring English sources

But Roffe went wide five gates from the end, and the time lost to maintain her balance cost her the victory.

Many historians now say that the unseen sentiment that produced this result that shocked not just the British but the whole world was the idea that all the blood and treasure lost to maintain the freedom of the British empire and the Western world demanded something more than continuation of the old political settlement.

He and others organized fashion shows and other fund-raisers and campaigns with slogans like "Refuse to Lose" to maintain interest and momentum in their fight.

This programme provides financial support to pastoralists that decide to rear animals of specified local traditional breeds, in danger of further decline in numbers and in some cases could be lost to farming, so to maintain biodiversity.

For administrators – and, indeed, the NCAA – Wolfe's ouster at Missouri was another blow in what continues to be an elongated, losing battle to maintain the hierarchy of false amateurism at the largest collegiate institutions.

This forces other firms to pay these same expenses to fight a losing battle to maintain technological equivalency.

"Being fit and maintaining fitness over time are very important to your heart and overall health for everyone – especially starting in early adulthood – and not only for people who are trying to lose or to maintain weight," Murthy said by email.

Phylogenetic analyses (discussed later) support the view that palindromic genes arose early in Polytomella evolution and were subsequently maintained or lost to varying degrees in extant lineages.

Similarly, private commercial insurers were concerned about business being lost to the NHIS, and they maintained a strong involvement in the NHIS design process.

Having lost the quest to maintain slavery, they put in place sharecropping a system of agricultural serfdom which was dominant for the next eight decades.

Most Americans and Europeans have lost the ability to maintain a large proportion of what can be regarded as a natural flora [9].