"loss" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But in September 1862 a second calamitous loss in battle at Manassas forced the Union Army to retrench and pull its forces toward Washington to protect the capital.
- It wouldn't take care of his really calamitous losses, in which he had lost not only all the proceeds of his gambling and other businesses, but also the station, to the Lampusan woman.
- In fact, given the number of weapons that criminals steal from private homes, widespread use of assault rifles for home defense could lead to a calamitous net loss for law and order.
- You may even have helped to bring about the calamitous loss suffered by our archive this morning.
- "Hard Revolution" is as much about the cultural influences of its era as it is about the Strange family's calamitous loss.
- A calamitous loss suffered at the First Battle of Manassas by the Union Army in July 1861 caused it to withdraw almost completely from Northern Virginia.
- Is the element of risk itself, the danger of calamitous loss, itself the proof that a legacy is being honored in the use?
- Moments later, Ms. Chenoweth was saved from an even more potentially calamitous loss by her waiter, who chased after her to return the BlackBerry she had left under her chair.
- Failing to remove a despot with the means to create havoc in a critical region would leave the United States open to potentially calamitous losses of all sorts, including economic ones.
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