Sentence examples for thus forfeited from inspiring English sources

Since surrender was considered shameful, any Americans who had given themselves up were deemed to have lost their honor and thus "forfeited fundamental human respect".

The bill, he announced, would not only compel the rebels and their abettors to forfeit "the persons they hold in slavery," it would declare the slaves thus forfeited free.

In a statement posted on a Web site, the group's "military committee" said the Tikrit bombing had been aimed at punishing "infidels" -- the migrant workers -- "who have sold their faith to the crusaders," meaning Americans, and thus forfeited the right to be considered Muslims.

"When a conservative member of the U.S. Congress recently designated the Guantanamo prisoners as 'those who were missed by the bombs' and thus forfeited their right to live, he almost literally evoked Agamben's notion of homo sacer, a man reduced to bare life no longer covered by any legal or civil rights.

As master of Douglas (1400) he defeated Sir Henry Percy ("Hotspur") and George Dunbar, earl of March near Preston, and acquired the lands that March thus forfeited.

Instead, a New Jersey official, whom the governor would not identify, compared the state's 2010 and 2011 financing, thus forfeiting the points.

But, the chairman of the House panel, John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, and the committee's ranking Republican, Lamar Smith of Texas, want Judge Kent to resign, thus forfeiting his salary.

Later when Henri Cartier-Bresuggestedested he work for Magnum, he refused to buy the required Leica, sticking with his trusty Rollieflex that had so often survived being dropped in the Mekong river, thus forfeiting his chance to work for the agency.

This byotch actually left him briefly at some stage, had an obnoxious brat by some other guy, thus forfeiting our sympathy-rights, and is clingingly now back with Jake, killing their lust by demanding incessant trips to the fertility clinic.

Unencumbered luxury hotel brands don't come around that often, and the conundrum InterContinental likely faces is having to justify a multiple potentially double that on which its shares trade, and thus forfeit the more immediate and relatively safer upside from a large share buyback.

Mr. Zinner said the significance of the conferences is that homeowners often fail to even answer a foreclosure action because they cannot afford a lawyer and do not know how to navigate the legal system, thus forfeiting their chance to defend themselves before a judge.