Using the past year's Finals defeat as motivation, the team won the Pacific Division for the fourth straight year and lost just twice in the Western Conference playoffs.

Once Land could see the solution to a problem in his head, he lost all motivation to write it down or prove his vision to others.

Unfortunately, since his master died, he lost faith and motivation, working at a grocery store, but spends most of the time gorging himself with junk food.

Despite starting the following season well – unbeaten through the first fifteen league games and heading the table – Watford slumped to finish 9th in Division One with Taylor publicly stating he had lost his powers of motivation.

This suggestion, that Britain lost the motivation to share intelligence with Stalin after this time, is also at variance with Read and Fisher's theory.

Unanalyzable borrowings from foreign languages, like asparagus, or old compounds such as samblind which have lost their iconic motivation ( since one or more of the morphemes making them up, like sam -, which meant " semi -", has become obscure ) are reanalyzed in a more or less semantically plausible way, yielding, in these examples, sparrow grass and sandblind.

Losing motivation, the team in turn lost confidence in him and his teammate Jean Alesi gained the upper hand.

( This was to be a motivation for his son Peter in 1762, upon his Russian accession, to start preparations for the use of Russian troops to reconquer the lost lands from Denmark.

Later, when the Turks lost ground to the imperial armies and Austrian despotism intensified, Habsburg oppression of Hungarians played an increasingly important role in the motivation of the kuruc.

Once rewards are no longer offered, interest in the activity is lost ; prior intrinsic motivation does not return, and extrinsic rewards must be continuously offered as motivation to sustain the activity.

Biographer and critic Alexander Skabichevsky, having found similarities in the development of Pisemsky and Saltykov-Schedrin, another author who examined the provincial bureaucracy in the times of " total corruption, embezzlement, no laws for landowners, wild atrocities, and a total lack of real state power "; times when " provincial life was mostly uncultured and lacked even basic morality ", and " the life of the intelligent classes had the character of one wanton, never ending orgy ", concluded: " Both writers lost all motivation not just for the idealization of Russian life, but also of highlighting its lighter, positive sides ".

Legend has it that Yashodharman, originally a prince, had lost his kingdom and was saved by a girl while wandering in a forest. It is said that it was a message from this girl, whom he later considered a sister, that acted as a motivation behind his military endeavours.

The following month Aries started a storyline, where he claimed to have lost the motivation to continue his professional wrestling career, after failing to make the cast of WWE Tough Enough, before offering to put his Dragon Gate USA career on the line in order to get one last shot at Yamato and the Open the Freedom Gate Championship.

However, Arnold was also considered the bishop who lost the Archdiocese of Scandinavia to Lund Cathedral, as a result of his lack of drive and motivation.

In a January 2006 radio interview, Bruun Eriksen said that during the Tour de Pologne in September 2005, he had told team manager Bjarne Riis of his decision to retire, as he did not like living alone in Spain, far from Denmark, and had lost his motivation.

In fact, according to Isocrates, the Athenians and their allies lost some 20, 000 men in the expedition.

Elsewhere, but lost according to conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro out to Howie Mandel when producer Bruce Paltrow learned Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan.

Once, he lost according to legend because he had not consulted Vien, one of the judges.

On the south end of the memorial is a field of symbolic bronze and stone chairs — one for each person lost, arranged according to what floor of the building they were on.

The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC ( Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387 / 6 ) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft.

He was apparently of above average height: according to Clifford Brewer he was but his remains have been lost since at least the French Revolution, and his exact height is unknown.

Because of economic contraction ( the economy declined by about 2 % in 2004 and 2005 and lost another 1. 4 % in 2006 according to the International Monetary Fund ) the country was moving downwards in terms of per capita income.

Samuel then went into retirement, though he reappears briefly in the two accounts of why Saul's dynasty lost divine favour ( parts of and ), essentially acting, according to scholars, as the narrator's mouthpiece.

Bracks, according to critics, achieved little, and lost the excitement of constant change that was characteristic of the Kennett years.

There were four players having eight cards apiece for their hand, and the cards won or lost according as the number of the pips was less or in more the winner being rewarded with counters.

Mo-ho-yen had been disseminating Dharma in the Tun-huang locale, but, according to Tibetan sources, lost an important philosophical debate on the nature of emptiness with the Indian master Kamalaśīla, and the king declared Kamalaśīla's philosophy should form the basis for Tibetan Buddhism.

Around 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.

One of the ship's officers, a historian, is lost and presumed dead while transporting a rescued senator and his secretary to a small island for safety in advance of the coming battle ; according to history, the pair and his chief of staff were believed to have been killed by the Japanese.

In 1987, the stock market plunged and, in the relatively brief recession following, lower Manhattan lost 100, 000 jobs according to one estimate.

In antiquity, according to a fragment of Callimachus ' lost Aitia, there was a tomb of Peleus in Ikos ( modern Alonissos ), an island of the northern Sporades ; there Peleus was venerated as " king of the Myrmidons " and the " return of the hero " was celebrated annually.

Plague epidemics were rampant during her time, and according to some scholarly debate, Julian may have become an anchoress unmarried or, having lost her husband and children in the Plague, as a widow.

The lost army of Cambyses II according to a 19th century engraving

If the third card's value falls between the first two, the player will receive a payoff according to the spread ; otherwise the bet is lost.

570 ships were lost ( these numbers vary according to source ), along with 3, 734 sailors.

There was some dispute over whether Aristide, prior to new elections, should serve the three years he had lost in exile, or whether his term in office should instead be counted strictly according to the date of his inauguration ; it was decided that the latter should be the case.

Since some of the original artifacts were, according to the biblical account, lost after the destruction of the First Temple, the Second Temple lacked the following holy articles:

Furthermore, Tiberius ( again according to the history of Plutarch ) reputedly offered to pay Octavius for his own lost lands personally, and that the two were friends until the weight of the wealthy / Senate brought him as the opposition to Tiberius ' law.

By June 1990, according to Benny Morris, " he Intifada seemed to have lost direction.

* Son of Ares and the Hesperid Erytheia, who bore him " beside the silver-rooted boundless waters of the river Tartessus, in the hollow of a rock ," according to a Strabo's quote from a lost poem of Stesichoros.

Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring ; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

In the stands he is lonely and lost, no matter how many are about him.

The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.

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.

Moreover, I'd have lost him if it hadn't been for the electronic shadowing device.

Then Roberts was on him, gasping for breath and for a couple of seconds Mickey lost sight of the blade.

But his new-found buddy had matched him drink for drink until he lost count, and the man's eyes were still clear.

As for its being fine, day after tomorrow, he had the unhappy conviction that it would never be fine again, with Vivian lost to him forever.

" Harris and other staff officers removed Johnston from his horse and carried him to a small ravine near the " Hornets Nest " and desperately tried to aid the general by trying to make a tourniquet for his leg wound, but little could be done by this point since he had already lost so much blood.

After he finishes his time at the isolation camp, where he is sent because his son is infected, he wants to return there, because this would make him feel closer to his lost son.

She lost control over Nero when he began to have an affair with the freedwoman Claudia Acte, which Agrippina strongly disapproved of and violently scolded him for.

In 893 or 894, Great Moravia probably lost a part of its territory — present-day Western Hungary — to him.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

Nami's Visa application has since been reviewed, and while he mentioned that Mushabib will be travelling with him, he listed his occupation as student but failed to provide an address for his school, and listed his intended address in the United States merely as Los Angeles – in the end he never used this Visa to enter the United States, and reported his passport ( C115007, which showed evidence of travel to Afghanistan ) as " lost ", and procured a new one from Jeddah ( C505363 ).

It is implied he lost his virginity in " Holy Cornholio ," as Beavis, who was being worshipped by a group of fanatics at the time, passed on his followers to Stewart, who took him to have sex with the women of the cult.

Paul proclaimed him as the new Adam, who restored through obedience what Adam lost through disobedience.

Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncuși went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned.

It is assumed that many of those lost were done in the Impressionist style he was then developing, thereby “ documenting the birth of Impressionism ," a style that some credit him with inventing.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

Summer campaigns saw him not only retake, sometimes with brutal reprisals, what he had lost in the ' close ' season, but also seek to widen his sphere of operation — and we see him in action in the Aveyron at St. Antonin and on the banks of the Rhone at Beaucaire.