In the context of the day it was lost-and indeed nearly that whole month-it was a needless sacrifice, because at the time, we appeared to be losing-badly.

A needless sacrifice continues because the American occupation of Iraq, and its bloodshed, continues.

Don't let it be a needless sacrifice.

Our bill keeps the dolphin-safe label honest, lifts the trade embargo on all tuna imports of dolphin-safe tuna and spares dolphins from needless sacrifice.

That counsel makes the Administration's policy-pinching in favor of politics look like a needless sacrifice of idealism for ambition or misguided loyalty.

Whenever my authority would permit I saved my command from needless sacrifices and unnecessary toil; therefore, when hard or daring work was to be done I expected the heartiest response, and always got it.

Saddened by Claudia's needless sacrifice, Amanda decides to mend her ways.

You say the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington commemorates needless sacrifice and betrayal.

Ideals, for Vaz, interfere with practicality, since they admit choices which many times require needless sacrifices, both for oneself and for others.

Hill intended the Stonehenge replica to express that modern warfare (like Druid sacrifices as he understood them) was a form of needless human sacrifice.