The world did not do well, losing in 32 moves.
While she may well lose in court, legal analysts say, she cannot be fired while the case is pending.
But many prominent Republicans, including some of President Bush's most faithful backers, are convinced that the most certain way for Mr. Bush to continue to rise politically, and ultimately win re-election in 2004, is for Republicans to, well, lose in November.
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Women can be exceptional leaders, the remark suggested, but they may well lose in their climb to the top if they cannot do so with a smile.
Well, lost as in Rick left them in a bar after chugging a bottle of Plutonian tequila".
Well lost momentum in a 2-1 loss to St Mirren on Friday but can take heart from a performance that really should have earned something and a six-game unbeaten sequence in the league prior to that.
He's fighting for some things he may well lose on, in other words -- and he is doing so wholeheartedly, and not in some vague, on-the-sidelines way.
But he didn't do well, lost his place in the team and was left out of the squad altogether for the World Cup at that level later in the year.
Al Gore may well have lost in November because he tried to lurch away from the muzzy centrism his boss had perfected.In this section How was it for you?
