How To Use Losses In A Sentence

The company is closing down two of its factories, leading to 430 job losses .
He said the operators of two steel fishing vessels recently reported losses of HK $50,000 a month while the operators of two sampans said they had lost around HK $20,000.
Each major area is enclosed by a large number of isoglosses representing differences in lexis, grammar, and phonology.
His record of 38 wins, no losses, includes 16 defences of his WBU title, and his all-action style has made Hatton the darling of his Manchester home town where his fans are both loyal and loud.
A classic example of cleaning fan losses can be found at headlands where combine speeds suddenly drop.

The improvement has been across the board, with all divisions either increasing profits or reducing losses.
Alan Krans, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said the restructuring announced last quarter should help the company avoid being "pummeled," as it was during the last economic downturn, when it had huge losses on sharp sales declines. EMC Says Tech Outlook Is Murky
Suisse, by claiming they devised structures that helped him to hide losses. Times, Sunday Times
Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses. Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs
If I am injured in body or pocket I expect the person causing that injury to compensate me for any losses that I incur unless it has been a genuine accident.
Another Japanese company announced 99 job losses this week. Times, Sunday Times
The two losses are a serious setback for the team's playoff hopes.
If the aggrieved party is unable to establish the value of a loss of bargain he may seek compensation in respect of his reliance losses.
That will make it easier for businesses such as haulage companies which might have suffered losses as a result of this to bring claims. The Sun
Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses.
Investors 'paper losses on U.S. stocks now total $8.4 trillion since the market peak one year ago, based on the value of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, which includes almost all U. S.-based companies. Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
In 1947 partition divided their homeland and those finding themselves in Pakistan suffered terrible losses making their way to India.
Three years of huge losses forced the bank to seek a government bailout.
The main drivers of this long-term fiscal gap are, in order, the spending growth associated with Medicare and Medicaid, the revenue losses from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and increases in Social Security costs ... Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But hanging around to the bitter end is sending good money after bad; better to cut your losses and vamoose.
In good years, profits from the second half more than cover losses from the first half.
He later (2003 and 2005, 21-5) adduced a specific instance of such a change in emphasis, showing that Ammonius glosses over the doctrine of ˜divine names™, their natural origin and theurgic efficacy. The Garbage House
When, a few years later, Lord Elgin assented to the Rebellion Losses Bill, he established in Canada the practice and procedure of British parliamentary government. Education and the Empire
The use of superphosphate in manure to prevent nitrogen losses by reducing pH is not usually recommended because the added phosphorus is not necessary or desirable when poultry manure is used as a fertilizer.
The chairman expressed the opinion that job losses were inevitable.
But, the sale of twice as many higher-strike calls exposes the investor to losses should shares in the name soar 61.2% over the current price to surpass the upper breakeven point at $20.10 by expiration day in January 2012. Bulls Tune Into TiVO Calls, Bears Tear Into Abercrombie
They probably would have posted some unrealized stock losses in the second quarter.
But what plagues American still bedevils the rest of the airline industry, which has racked up $55 billion in losses in the past decade. Airlines Are Driven to Nickel and Dime
Four students listed miscarriages as significant losses for them.
Due to the overlap between politics and business these banks have suffered heavy losses from subsidizing state-run enterprises and bad loans.
However, in contrast to thermal burns, the fluid losses do not occur until the blisters form and the fluid lost is a transudate, which means protein losses are less.
The shop and cafe were once a thriving business and despite a recent upturn in fortunes, a three-year period of losses have led to charity chiefs deciding it is no longer financially viable.
The corresponding files are small in size and can be scaled at any resolution without losses.
As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
Torres who has reportedly amassed 53 career wins with 16 losses is said to be arriving for the clash next Saturday.
Despite the enormous casualty figure, a major concern of governmental officials was that insurance cover property losses.
Insurers often stipulate deductible amount, coinsurance clause and limit of liability in their contracts, so as to the directors and officers carry one part of the losses and costs.
Now the losses are enormous and you'd have to be seriously wealthy to cover them.
Prior catastrophic losses both in Mysore and in America had a lingering effect on future actions in India not only because the British could not afford further defeat, but also because the primary British actant in the Mysore Wars and the Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup. Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
One of the losses is that pointe work has become less interesting.
They crumbled to our mighty power with our losses barely reaching through the double digits.
The company endured heavy financial losses.
The losses which the decline in consumer demand initially entails will cause a decline in the demand for resources in that industry.
One lawmaker estimated actual losses at $ 100 million.
Pundits say that the timing of the National Stabilization Fund share disposal is the key to halting further losses.
There is considerable anxiety among staff about job losses.
As monsoonal rains poured down, the Gulf Country of Queensland, and extensive areas of the dry centre, were turned into vast inland seas, isolating pastoral stations and causing heavy cattle losses.
The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date. Here's a tax target for ya (Jack Bog's Blog)
Other changes include guaranteeing that passengers are repaid in cash rather than vouchers and being able to claim for losses caused by missed train connections. Times, Sunday Times
The workers also protested against poor working conditions and job losses.
Direct losses include claims under property coverage, workers' comp, life and accident, business interruption, general liability and more.
And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.
Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.
Since shareholders have a nasty habit of leaving, customers will probably have to bear the brunt of these losses and the bank may try to push profit margins even wider apart.
He said capital flight and stock market losses highlight an extremely low - level of Russian domestic investment.
Thus, although the loss of a job is very often the cause of injured feelings and emotional upset, the law does not recognize these as compensable losses.
Banking, finance and insurance have also been hit with nearly 3000 job losses and the distributive trade has also been badly affected with 2720 job losses.
However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval.
The system allows owners to pass profits and losses through to personal tax returns. Times, Sunday Times
More than a quarter of the job losses will be from news and regional coverage. Times, Sunday Times
It nearly doubled to $26.1 billion its forecast for losses on a troubled $118.7 billion mortgage portfolio tied to its disastrous purchase in 2006 of California lender Golden West Financial Corp.
Clearly, infectious diseases contribute significantly to economic losses and days of disability in the United States.
Both had posted losses throughout the session, but stabilized near the close.
Indeed, profit is inconsistent with the point of such a programme which is to socialise losses that would otherwise cripple the financial sector and toss millions of people out of their homes.
Then the fad proved short-lived, as many traders suffered substantial losses when the internet bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
In the short term, to the extent that it enabled workers to recover entitlement losses, this merely shifted those losses from workers to other unsecured creditors who were in no way responsible for the problem.
News of the losses caused panic among investors.
Robins is clearly annoyed by the wages package at a time when the Sky Blues are making heavy losses.
At the bottom of Chinese pacificism is the willingness to put up with temporary losses and bide one's time.
The franchise fee will determine the point D, below which the retailer would make losses.
The losses and sacrifices suffered in terms of academic advancement had been construed to be the destiny of life.
Farmers hoped to send their animals to early slaughter to avoid financial losses.
recuperate one's losses
Much of the deficit was due to losses on foreign exchange and derivatives deals. Times, Sunday Times
The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses.
Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
But all those losses are recouped tenfold by one detail - a pair of sliding rear doors. Times, Sunday Times
Nokia is expected to report losses in the second and third fiscal quarter of the year, due to a continuing slide in its smartphone market share.
Savings will be made through natural wastage. There will be no job losses.
The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
Following the job losses announced last week, just over 400 workers would remain.
Since the sacrifice of a single one of these cargo vessels caused terrible losses, merchants yearned to avoid the inevitable.
They have suffered no losses and are entitled to no compensatory rewards as redundancy payments have now been made.
None of these huge losses would have been possible without catastrophic failings in the bank's structure. Times, Sunday Times
The one discarding a tile that permits another player to win must bear the entire losses of all other players; if the player winning had any of the following four combinations of tiles exposed at the time of discarding, _unless the discarder himself had two complete doubling honors and was waiting for the winning tile_ or _was waiting for the winning tile which would give him more than two doubling honors_. Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
The company racked up $200 million in losses in two years.
The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
Running down the nuclear industry will result in heavy job losses.
Both sides are known to exaggerate enemy losses and to under-report their own. Times, Sunday Times
John Doyle, CEO of AIG's commercial insurance division, defended the company's business decisions, saying underwriters do not provide coverage if the premium is too low to cover losses.
A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions.
Still, the losses were grievous. The Times Literary Supplement
The company has consistently said that funding the continuing trading losses is the biggest drain on its cash flow.
After nine months of massive losses the company finally went to the wall.
Losses force bankers to abandon excessively risky investments. Times, Sunday Times
Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety, poverty, chronic illness, multiple losses and death.
The part where you said you were overcome and ended up in a hospital intrigued me, I'm looking for a game where failing doesn't give you the game over screen, where failing and recouping your losses is all part of the game. War stories from Mosate Soleo
This head, obtained by subtracting friction and other losses from the surveyed head, is called the _effective head_, and determines the amount of power delivered at the nozzle. Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine
Many contractors may not be able to absorb those losses.
Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
Ostrich farmers have already suffered millions of rands in losses.
Expect job losses and a withdrawal from subscale markets. Times, Sunday Times
Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity. Current Affairs
The collapse of the property bubble and the Asian financial crisis in 1997 sent the city into a downward spiral of job losses and deflation.
The announcement has left shareholders nursing huge losses.
Job losses and banking cutbacks have the potential to depress consumer spending, reduce tax receipts and undermine business confidence. Times, Sunday Times
Wins and losses sometimes appeared to matter less to fans than the thrill of seeing Sammy hit another moonshot.
With over $5 billion in realized and unrealized losses, it's unlikely that new money invested in Mercury will dull its tax edge.
The Guardian's more comprehensive survey also came up with far higher job losses than the government admits.
Consumers could start to save more of their income in an effort to make up for stock losses, causing a cutback in spending.
Therefore, the losses of the cables have to be nulled out or measured and noted.
It was at this point that we decided to cut our losses and have a meal in York to savour the atmosphere.
The privatisation roller coaster when everyone was encouraged to become a shareholder left many with irrecoverable losses.
If our premiums exceed the total of our expenses and eventual losses, we register an underwriting profit that adds to the investment income that our float produces.
I understand I think fairly deeply the losses that aging people experience as they get older, the loss of physical movement.
Gary Locke estimated losses totaling billions of dollars, as damage reports of highways, homes and businesses continued to trickle in.
Banking firms and financial houses announced thousands of job losses in recent weeks.
Oilseed rape is an important oleaginous crop. Kinds of diseases during its growth period are responsible for dramatic yield losses.
Regulatory tolerance of go-for-broke risk-taking by insolvent institutions undermines the stability of a country's financial system and allows institutional losses to cumulate relentlessly.
It said that the errors may affect the timing of recorded losses. Times, Sunday Times
This has led to financial losses, though admittedly on a fairly small scale.
The long-term implications of these habitat losses for individual species, if the present trends continue, are likely to be disastrous.
The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
The chairman expressed the opinion that job losses were inevitable.
We suspect that many players hit with losses in the credit markets have been forced to also cover short positions in the stock market.
The theological treatises were probably already known at the court of Charlemagne around 800, and a tradition of glosses to the text probably goes back to the later ninth century.
The insect which will cause the quite big losses in the economy will be the flowered thrips, the monitor thrips available yellow and the blue color oriental army worm board.
Most of my questions were asked, but there was one thing I wanted to ask for a little more color on, it's with respect to the continuation of the aboveaverage level of large property losses. Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
There's a lot of anxiety among the staff about possible job losses.
Managers said the job losses were unavoidable.
Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected.
What they almost all had in common was that they cost a lot of money, made you miserable and resulted in staggeringly insubstantial weight losses that were completely negated by your drinking a glass of water.
we have incurred huge losses
This graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms aligned at the bottom of the recession (Both the 1991 and 2001 recessions were flat at the bottom, so the choice was a little arbitrary). Calculated Risk
The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.
We're in a dangerous spot, " said Andrew Tilton, an economist at Goldman Sachs. "The big threat is more capital losses.
Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
We enjoy his victories, and feel true sorrow for his losses.
This year's profits will balance our previous losses.
Telecoms companies are casting around for ways of recouping huge losses.
In recent years the British Museum the V&A and the Dulwich Picture Gallery have all reported losses from open displays or storage vaults.
Estimates of his own financial losses varied, but the three-crew vessel often carried just a few sacks of coal to remote locations on a daily basis.
However, the US dollar recovered its losses after the market had digested the information.
The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were "covered by the house". Tea Party vs. Two Party
One of the most troublesome diseases affecting this species is anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, sometimes in association with other fungi, notably Botryodiplodia and Fusarium spp.; crop losses can sometimes amount to 70-80 per cent, but spraying at 10 day intervals with zineb or ferbam is stated to be effective. Chapter 37
However, there are conditions that may increase so-called insensible losses through sites such as the skin.
Up to 1,200 staff will be axed in a move which involves job losses at every one of its branches in the UK - including its supermarket at Monks Cross.
Each includes the Iban text version, with interlinear glosses, and English translations, supplemented by occasional passages contextualizing the songs.
I'm playing a lot for Montauban, which is great," said the Fijian, whose new team are seventh in the table with three wins and three losses. The Roar - Your Sports Opinion
The losses in our overseas division have cancelled out the profits made in the home market.
All divisions reported increased sales and either reduced losses or improved earnings.
He is now under fire for the losses suffered and the subsequent hit to the company's dividend.
3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
Bovine reproductive diseases and conditions result in economic losses caused by decreased production and delayed reproduction as well as increased treatment and preventative measurement costs.
But in fact losses were broadly similar on both sides. Times, Sunday Times
The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected.
A new accounting standard allowed the thrifts to amortize the losses over the life of the loans.
Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning.
To change the system of payment will lead to income losses mostly on suckler cow and sheep farms that are highly dependent on headage.
Sacramento ran off eight straight points to start the game, led by 12 at the half and never trailed in avenging two earlier losses to the Nuggets by a combined 52 points. USATODAY.com
This so-called economic substance doctrine has been used by the federal courts for a half-century to strike down complex and creative instances of self-dealing - such as intracompany stock transfers intended to generate tax-reducing losses - that have no business purpose beyond avoiding the taxman. Top Stories from CQ
When the costs of crime are assessed, account should be taken of losses recompensed through insurance.
A Financial Supervisory Service official said Wednesday the financial watchdog will focus primarily on whether banks are setting aside enough provisions for real estate project-financing loans to ensure that they are adequately prepared for pote ntial loan losses. South Korea to Inspect Banks' Loan Quality
This is because of the limited partnerships' tax losses while drilling, and the availability of capital allowances.
A technical process like an engine process involves losses. heat transfer and other irreversibilities and cannot therefore be described by the isentropic exponent g. 3. Essential theory on internal combustion engines
Insurance protects you against assorted material and personal losses; surety bonding promises performance on contracts.
Commodity and energy companies led the gains in London as copper and crude oil prices pared back earlier losses. Times, Sunday Times
Unable to recoup his business losses in Center Falls and losing even the satinet factory, Susan's father had looked about in Virginia and Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
It was set up to provide training for people trying to return to work and to rejuvenate the town following devastating job losses and a subsequent slump in the 1980s.
Like the Liber Commonei, this book too contains numerous vernacular glosses (mostly Old Welsh).
Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
Job losses and banking cutbacks have the potential to depress consumer spending, reduce tax receipts and undermine business confidence. Times, Sunday Times
There are some fancy new flosses, like Glide or Colgate's Precision.
And, of course, some companies are mitigating losses through currency hedges.
Inexact or unliquidated losses (although they are not presumed and therefore must be pleaded) are compensated by an award of general damages.
In that case the contractor sought to sue the engineer for losses arising from alleged under-certification of the amounts due to the contractor.
Stories of rebel advances or government losses are swapped, often in whispers over cups of tea. Times, Sunday Times
The Yves Saint Laurent label inched closer to profitability, after it reduced operating losses to PPR's Net Profit Doubles
The practice is designed to maximise returns to creditors and reduce job losses by ensuring that the failed business does not endure a lengthy period in administration. Times, Sunday Times
The Allspeeds drives and controls subsidiary is the only remaining poor performer, but its losses have been stopped.
The court was told the company made seven people redundant in July as a result of ‘ongoing financial losses and the requirement to rationalise the business’.
The tenant filed a claim against the landlord to recover his losses.
The slippage caused physical damage, delays, and consequential losses, and necessitated extensive remedial works.
The company reported underwriting losses of €5.3 million for the whole of last year, including a €10.2 million loss from the motor business.
Post Office chiefs insist drastic action is needed to stem huge financial losses.
The remaining potential $5 billion above accruals represents the bank's estimates on possible losses on that remaining amount of principal. BofA to Book Massive Charges Tied to Mortgages
This optimistic move comes at a time when other hotels in the upmarket sector have been suffering losses.
Shareholders would be forced to bear the full risk of the positions they have taken and suffer the resulting losses. financial crises continue to occur for the same reasons as always - overoptimism, excessive debt and leverage ratios, and misguided incentives and perspectives - and our solutions must continue to address these basic problems. Thomas Hoenig For Fed Chairman
We must recover our losses immediately,or we shall be bankrupt.
The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
A new management team attempted a rescue, and company accounts for the previous three years were republished showing significant losses. Times, Sunday Times
Where the theme of loss emerges without a major focus, one should encourage the person to identify the losses. Growing Through Loss and Grief
You can convert profits to losses, put money in phony loans, buy businesses without people knowing who you are, and evade all laws regulating money.
RPI is a simplistic and wrongheaded methodology, relying heavily upon a team’s OPPONENTS’S strength of schedule and looking at a single variable (wins and losses) to determine the ranking of teams. The Volokh Conspiracy » We Got Screwed!
The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
With regard to the cost cutting, job losses and closures of public baths by City of York Council, has anyone put two and two together and realised why they are having to save money?
The company is unable to absorb such huge losses.
Auto makers, including Toyota, are setting aside millions of dollars in leased - vehicle losses as - car prices plummet.

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