Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.

Res Gestae ( Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI ) was originally in thirty-one books, but the first thirteen are lost ( modern historian T. D.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

The Falcons have qualified for the playoffs three times ( 2008, 2010 and 2011 ) during this period, but lost all three in the first round

Under Head Coach Norb Hecker they lost their first nine regular-season games in 1966 and secured their first victory on the road against the New York Giants.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

She first supported Michael Ancram, who was eliminated in the first round, and then Kenneth Clarke, who lost in the final round.

After two years of Democratic Party control, the Democrats lost control of Congress in the mid-term elections in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

In the first Test on 20 June, they lost 26 – 21, and lost the series in the second 28 – 25 in a tightly-fought game at Loftus Versfeld on 27 June.

United won the League championship but were denied the 20th century's first " double " when they controversially lost the 1957 FA Cup final to Aston Villa.

In its first game in the American League, the team lost to the Detroit Tigers 14 – 13 after blowing a 9-run lead in the 9th inning.

The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.

Lara returned to the team for the second Test ( and scored a huge first innings score of 196 ), but in the process lost his captaincy indefinitely to the newly-appointed Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Its operational definition of Palestine refugee for persons qualifying for UNRWA assistance says " whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948, and 1967 conflicts ," descendants are also eligible for registration.

On August 7, Feyenoord had lost the third qualifying round of the Champions League against Dynamo Kyiv in both legs, which would secure a spot in the play-offs.

He lost his ride in Bill Davis Racing's # 27 car due to a loss of sponsorship, two days after he caused a pileup in his qualifying race, when his car got loose, then slid back up the track, colliding with another car.

Rangers lost 2 – 1 on aggregate to Swedish side Malmö FF in the Champions League third round qualifying match, and were then knocked out of Europe after losing 3 – 2 on aggregate in the Europa League qualifying match against Slovenian side Maribor.

On 7 September 2005, Eriksson's England team lost a World Cup qualifying match against Northern Ireland 1 – 0, the first time that England had lost to that team since 1972 and one of only five competitive games lost during Eriksson's tenure.

Under Eriksson, England achieved the highest point percentage in Major Tournament Matches of all time for an England manager, lost only 3 competitive games ( excluding extra-time ), and achieved top qualifying place in all three International tournaments.

When Kramnik defeated Kasparov and inherited Kasparov's title, he also inherited some controversies because he was handpicked to play for the title after he had just lost the qualifying match against Alexei Shirov in 1998.

In the Champions League qualifying round, Udinese were drawn against Arsenal and lost the away leg 1 – 0.

They won the first matches against FK Tauras ( 3-2, 2-0 ) but lost the first away leg for the third qualifying round against AC Omonia Nicosia, by 3-0, at Nicosia.

Macclesfield Town progressed through four qualifying rounds to make their first appearance in the FA Cup first round in 1960 under manager Frank Bowyer, but lost 7 – 2 to Southport.

In an elimination for the Meadowlands Pace, he broke stride, lost valuable ground, regained his gait and, in what many say was his greatest performance, recovered and finished 4th, qualifying for the final.

Bangor City were against HJK Helsinki in the second qualifying round but lost 3 – 0 at home.

He began the 2008 / 2009 season by qualifying for the main draw of the 2008 Northern Ireland Trophy and the 2008 Shanghai Masters, but lost in the first round against Barry Hawkins 3 – 5 and Mark King 4 – 5 respectively.

In the second qualifying round he defeated Vincent Muldoon 10 – 8, but lost his next match 8 – 10 against Andy Hicks.

At the UK Championship in December White lost 8-9 to Stephen Hendry in the first-round after he had come through three qualifying rounds to get to Telford.

He participated at qualifying stages of the German Masters, but lost in the second round 1 – 5 against Jimmy Robertson, White reached the last qualifying round of the Welsh Open, but was whitewashed by Ryan Day, and has qualified for the final stages of the China Open, by defeating Liu Chuang, Peter Lines and Dominic Dale.

White lost his first qualifying match for the World Championship 9-10 against Jimmy Robertson.

Francisco lost in the second qualifying round at the games.

In season 2003 – 04, the club won the Welsh Premier League, qualifying for the Champions League qualification rounds ( though they lost 7 – 1 on aggregate, to Skonto Riga of Latvia in the first qualifying round ), and were winners of the League Cup and Welsh Cup, although they lost the final of the FAW Premier Cup 4 – 1 to Wrexham.

The referee is the official timekeeper for the match, and may make an allowance for time lost through substitutions, injured players requiring attention, or other stoppages.

The team hosted ( and lost ) their divisional round match on January 15, 2006 against the Carolina Panthers.

Junior lost the match 4 – 1, which ended the club's hopes of playoff qualification.

With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage.

Despite this, Orange Free State lost the match.

South Africa lost the first Test in Johannesburg but before the second test the two teams plus Pakistan and Sri Lanka competed for the Mandela Trophy, New Zealand failed to gain a win in the six match round robin stage while South Africa beat Pakistan in the final.

She lost the semifinal match to Evgeny Bareev, who in turn lost to Kasparov.

Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.

They lost the match, 4 – 6, 6 – 7, to Americans Kimberly Po and Donald Johnson.

The match was played in spite of protests by both managers, and Liverpool lost 1 – 0 to Juventus.

After Harvey led the team to victory at Lord's, Benaud had an unhappy return in the Third at Headingley scoring two runs in two innings and taking match figures of 2 / 108 as Australia lost within three days.

In an early tour match Benaud took his best first class innings haul of 18-10-18-7 for New South Wales against the MCC, which lost by an innings and 80 runs, the state's biggest win against the English team.

He chose to end his British commentary career, which spanned more than 42 years, when the rights to broadcast live Test match cricket were lost by Channel 4 to the subscription broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.

In the other main round group, Iceland became the third Nordic team to qualify after defeating Germany in the final match, but both Denmark and Iceland were soundly beaten in the semi-finals – Denmark lost 23 – 28 to Germany, while Sweden defeated Iceland by 11 goals.

Croatia, Norway, Hungary and France won their preliminary groups, but two of the teams failed to utilise their advantage ; Norway drew with Poland and lost to Slovenia, and needed to beat Croatia in the final match of the group stage.

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England lost the last group match against Spain and failed to progress.

Feijenoord eventually lost the match against Benfica 3 – 1, but this turned out to be the start of the most successful period in the club's history.

Tinsley never lost a World Championship match, and lost only seven games ( two of them to the Chinook computer program ) in his entire 45 year career.

Hellman lost only one World Title match, in 1955 to Marion Tinsley.

At the year-end Chase Championships, Davenport lost to Monica Seles, after holding seven match points, her third loss to Seles, having a match point opportunity on all three occasions.