Now they are paying for it. "They certainly lost an opportunity that we had in January where it would have cost roughly sixty billion euros to save Greece."

VOA: special.2010.05.07

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

I believe many Africans are still focused on that promise, whereas we may have lost sight of it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

We are losing this war. It is not yet lost but we are losing this war,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"We have lost forces that are fighting in order to bring security for Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

We have lost everything. We are not able to work any more,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Yeah. (PHONE VIBRATES) - Edward, are you okay?- We've lost the tracker.

VOA: standard.other

"If we go into a protectionist downward spiral, we are lost,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Half our coral reefs are dead or dying. We've lost 90 percent of deep blue water,big game fish: the halibut,the tuna and the marlin that we all loved to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"The lives that our young men and women both American and British have put at risk and lost are very much on our minds,and we intend to get this as right as its humanly possible."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11