The Americans, vastly outnumbered, lost the battle, but the weather helped save their cause.
Despite the huge cost of staying in Iraq, the cost of leaving too quickly would be vastly greater — in lost prestige, lost credibility in the war against terrorism, general chaos in the region and the hegemony of Iran.
"The increase in the personal tax allowance already announced will vastly exceed anything lost through employee national insurance [NI] contributions up-rating, and that's even before any further increases in that allowance".
Karen Handel and Mia Love," the former NRCC aide said, referring to two Republicans who were vastly outspent and narrowly lost their seats.
Otherwise he will join the ranks of Al Gore and John Kerry as a vastly superior candidate who lost at a critical time in our nation's history.
As their hosts of Afghan refugees show, Pakistan and Iran have vastly more to lose from disorder in Afghanistan than do any other outsiders.The fightingYet the fact that these are the new worries shows how far and fast things have moved this week.
It conveniently ignores that it was from within those "Auschwitz borders" that Israel defeated the combined forced of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in six days in 1967 (at the cost of 776 Israeli lives) while in 1973, from vastly expanded borders, losing 2688 soldiers and almost the war itself following an Egyptian and Syrian attack.
Last week, backstage at the Auckland book festival, I expressed the mild view that The Goldfinch would be a vastly better novel if it lost 200 pages.
Her short life was vastly important -- her efforts not lost or forgotten.
Meanwhile, the Aussie media seem to be talking as if Australia are going to be a vastly improved side from the one that lost 3-0 in the summer, but I'm yet to see any evidence to support that view.
