Sentence examples for were forfeiting from inspiring English sources

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were forfeiting

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To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance

  • He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.

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And administration officials consistently declined to tally up the money they were forfeiting.

We had no idea that by failing to see a doctor, we were forfeiting $7,000 without even the opportunity for a partial refund or credit.

Judges have consistently upheld the clauses, The Times found, regardless of whether the people signing them understood what they were forfeiting.

At the news conference, Mr. Obama said Republicans were forfeiting an "extraordinarily fair deal" to trim the deficit and raise the debt ceiling.

Sam Chandan, the president of Real Estate Economics, a research company in New York, said the fact that people were forfeiting such large deposits was "indicative of the degree of uncertainty in the market".

I'm like, 'Where you from?' " The cabbies, most of whom were forfeiting an afternoon's pay to attend the forum, seemed less interested in sociological exchange than in seizing the opportunity, like players working a new ref, to make themselves, and their issues, known to Yassky.

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His honours were forfeited and he himself banished.

His duchies and fiefs were forfeited to the empire.

Wins were forfeited and the N.C.A.A. forced Michigan to dissociate from Webber for 10 years.

In the past, employees had just three months after leaving Asana to exercise their options before they were forfeited.

Strathearn and March were forfeited in 1427 and 1435 respectively.

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