* Gambling losses, but only to the extent of gambling income ( For example, a person who wins $ 1, 000 in various gambling activities during the tax year and loses $ 800 in other gambling activities can deduct the $ 800 in losses, resulting in net gambling income of $ 200.

By contrast, a person who wins $ 3, 000 in various gambling activities during the year and loses $ 3, 500 in other gambling activities in that year can deduct only $ 3, 000 of the losses against the $ 3, 000 in income, resulting in a break-even gambling activity for tax purposes for that year -- with no deduction for the remaining $ 500 excess loss.

* The government loses the opportunity to tax the transaction.

Every vessel of whatever nationality, which shall submit to be searched by an English vessel or shall consent to a voyage to England or shall pay any tax whatever to the English government, is ipso facto declared denationalized, loses the protection afforded by its flag, and becomes English property.

The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie ; if the movie loses money, the investor would get a tax writeoff.

* the employee cannot contribute to TSP for the following six months and loses any matching contributions during this time ( however, the employee will still receive automatic contributions ); thus, the employee loses both the tax deferral advantages and the potential future earnings,

A PILOT is a payment in lieu of taxes ( also sometimes abbreviated " PILT "), made to compensate a local government for some or all of the tax revenue that it loses because of the nature of the ownership or use of a particular piece of real property.

The dodecaphonic series loses its significance as a concrete model of shape ( or a well-defined collection of concrete shapes ) is played out.

Rider Haggard's recreation of the Sherd of Amenartas, now in the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum. Haggard contended that romances such as She or King Solomon's Mines were best left unrevised, because " wine of this character loses its bouquet when it is poured from glass to glass.

José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo after which José kills her in a jealous rage.

Ronald Dworkin maintains that constitutional protection of freedom of conscience is central to democracy but creates personal duties to live up to it: " Freedom of conscience presupposes a personal responsibility of reflection, and it loses much of its meaning when that responsibility is ignored.

He defeats this warrior and marries his wife Laudine, but forsaking his marital duties for knightly exploits, he loses her love.

# When he or she loses the ability to discharge his or her duties as a result of serious illness or other reasons ;

Through several changes in title and duties, this person has been, together with the Mayor and City Comptroller, one of the three municipal officers directly elected by all of the City's voters, and also the person who — when the elected Mayor resigns, dies, or otherwise loses the ability to serve — becomes Acting Mayor until the next special or regular election.

One could also add to these analogies that steel loses its magnetism by heat, which proves that steel becomes a better conductor through a rise in temperature, just as electrical bodies do.

He suddenly and unexpectedly loses the moral support which the usual violent resistance of most victims would render him '' ; ;

Most of these institutes focus on a form of economics called macroeconomics which keeps its eyes on things such as inflation: the rate at which money loses its value over time ; growth: how much money a government has and how quickly it accrues money ; unemployment, and rates of trade between other countries.

A coin toss is held to determine which team will take possession first ; the first team scrimmages the ball at the opponent's 35-yard line and advances through a series of downs until it scores or loses possession.

* termination ( elementary step in which active particle loses its activity without transferring the chain ; e. g. recombination of the free radicals ).

The atom or molecule which loses electrons is known as the reducing agent, or reductant, and the substance which accepts the electrons is called the oxidizing agent, or oxidant.

In this example, the anode is zinc metal which oxidizes ( loses electrons ) to form zinc ions in solution, and copper ions accept electrons from the copper metal electrode and the ions deposit at the copper cathode as an electrodeposit.

In the event of a school failing to attract students it immediately loses its per-head fee and over time loses its teaching posts-and teachers are moved to other schools which are attracting students.

Hayek claimed that a limited democracy might be better than other forms of limited government at protecting liberty but that an unlimited democracy was worse than other forms of unlimited government because " its government loses the power even to do what it thinks right if any group on which its majority depends thinks otherwise ".

Stability at and is explained by gravitational equilibrium: if the object were moved into a tighter orbit, it would orbit faster which would counteract the increase in gravity ; if the object moves into a wider orbit, the gravity is lower, but it loses speed.

Every ferromagnetic substance has its own individual temperature, called the Curie temperature, or Curie point, above which it loses its ferromagnetic properties.

The Original Man is armed with five different shields of light ( reflections of the five Shekhinas ), which he loses to the forces of darkness in the ensuing battle, described as a kind of " bait " to trick the forces of darkness, as the forces of darkness greedily consume as much light as they can.

This temperature is dependent on the rate at which the filament loses heat to the surrounding gas, and therefore on the thermal conductivity.

Another reason that law enforcement agencies use machine pistols in hostage rescue situations is that the low-powered pistol ammunition loses its energy quickly, which means that the bullets are less likely to go through walls and injure innocent parties.

* 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

Nim can be played as a misère game, in which the player to take the last object loses.

In forming compounds, the atom loses its two outermost electrons and one of the 4f-electrons, which belongs to an open subshell.

Joseph Priestley, for example, in referring to the reaction of steam on iron, whilst fully acknowledging that the iron gains weight as it binds with oxygen to form a calx, iron oxide, iron also loses “ the basis of inflammable air ( hydrogen ), and this is the substance or principle, to which we give the name phlogiston .” Following Lavoisier ’ s description of oxygen as the oxidizing principle ( hence the name oxygen: oxus

The emitted positron travels in tissue for a short distance ( typically less than 1 mm, but dependent on the isotope ), during which time it loses kinetic energy, until it decelerates to a point where it can interact with an electron.

Conservation of energy demands that these recombination events, in which an electron loses an amount of energy larger than the band gap, be accompanied by the emission of thermal energy ( in the form of phonons ) or radiation ( in the form of photons ).

Matilda is usually drawn with a flower on her hat, which loses a petal in each panel in which she appears.

On each hand, ties go to the banker ( for example, if a player's five-card hand loses to the banker and his two-card hand ties the banker then the player loses ); this gives the banker a small advantage.

As they go through several adventures together, Ellie loses her initial disdain for him and begins to fall in love.

Marie almost loses her mind, but after the concerned Prof. Perot counsels her, she rallies when she remembers Pierre's words that if one of them is gone, the other must go on working just the same.

Each gamester holds the box by turns, and the other players follow his chance ; every time he throws a point under ten he, as well as the other players, loses the entire stakes, which go to the banker.

For example, it is claimed that girls who had to regularly sell fresh produce in the market can now go to school instead, as there is less urgency to sell the produce before it loses freshness.

In the season 3 episode of " The Lucy Show ", " Lucy and the Missing Stamp ", Lucy loses the stamp that Mr. Mooney paid $ 3, 000 for in a vacuum cleaner, and must go through all kinds of crazy stunts to retrieve it.

She agrees to go to " his " boat, but Franco quickly loses interest when it transpires Mary is not wealthy, confessing his scam.

The Green Party loses four seats to go from 55 to 51 and goes into opposition with the FDP and the Left Party.

However, if strange ( foreign ) words appear, the Stenotype loses in time, while the Velotypist ( veyboard, velotype-pro ) can go on with the same speed, which can also go up to 1000 characters per minute.

* The original meaning is that a gambler who raises his bet to a fixed fraction of bankroll when he wins, but does not reduce it when he loses, will eventually go broke, even if he has a positive expected value on each bet.

" They go on to say that it is " boring " and " lacks the human drama necessary to get audiences to care who wins or loses.

After Metropolis loses power, Eggman escapes to go to the Death Egg, and Sonic follows him with help from Tails and the Tornado.

Adcox requests Stephen let go of him, but Stephen loses his grip on the catwalk.

Killian, despite his earlier stance not to give up and rebuild with the Blue and let the humans go unpunished, finally loses his thirst to fight when he learns from Anya, his secret lover and mother of his daughter, Kiani, that she is pregnant with their second child.

The soldier shoots at Sato and she loses her copy of the schematics, which also go over the side.

Her performance as both a parent and a career woman quickly go to pot, which becomes apparent after she wins $ 50, 000 by managing a very rare royal flush on a video poker machine, then loses it all in a matter of minutes.

There is a go proverb that states that " learning joseki loses two stones in strength ," meaning that rote learning of sequences is not advantageous.

Later in the series, Maud grows her hair longer and loses a lot of her weight, as her mother makes her go on a strict diet.

The song is about Vanity feeling ignored by her lover only to find solace with her ( actual quote from the song ) " body massager " which midway through the song loses power prompting Vanity to go purchase batteries at 2 different stores.

When he loses everything in a dice-game and gets exiled to the forest, stubbornly followed by Damayanti, he deserts her in sleep, hoping that she may go back to her parents and have a better life.

Joe is also captain of the works team at Blandings Cosmetics and Sandra and Beryl go to watch a match-Joe scores an own-goal and his team loses 7-0.