But I suspected that she may have lost on purpose, in order to let the product win.

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It has already provided details of certain clients' accounts to the Jockey Club during an investigation by them into allegations that the jockey Kieren Fallon lost races on purpose.

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The Coalition has now lost the benefit of the doubt on its central purpose.

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He said America had to restore a lost sense of common purpose, sketching out areas where he thought people on opposite sides of the culture wars could agree.

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Or perhaps the purpose of the meeting has long since been lost in the bureaucratic haze and yet the team keeps on going.

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