After defeats in battle, the desertion of his Armenian allies and his failure to capture Parthian strongholds convinced Antony to retreat, his army was further depleted by the hardships of its retreat through Armenia in the depths of winter, losing more than a quarter of its strength in the course of the campaign.

The Eagles struggled over the course of their first decade, enduring repeated losing seasons.

Often they are told by the seller precisely how high to bid, as the seller actually pays the price ( to himself, of course ) if the item does not sell, losing only the auction fees.

For example, if on a downwind leg the losing boat gybes towards the right side of the course the winning boat will gybe towards the right side of the course as well even though the left side of the course appears to be favored.

That way the winning boat is insured against losing the lead due to a wind shift that favors the right side of the course.

This is, of course, a worse move than sacrificing the queen, because it leads to losing a queen as well as a rook.

These, too, are losing popularity ; over the course of 2011 and 2012 the Lewis telethon was cut from over 21 hours to three as a response to declining returns while Lewis himself was controversially removed from the telethon, and only a handful of long-established local telethons remain.

Of course, when a losing country brings its laws etc.

Zimonjić played in all four double matches over the course of the competition, winning once ( against Croatia, partnering Tipsarević ) and losing the other three times ( partnering Tipsarević, Đoković and Troicki, respectively ).

Over the course of the novel, Gris finds himself in possession of twelve tons of pure gold, which he tries to launder through a Swiss bank account in order to keep it all for himself ; he becomes a prisoner of two man-hating lesbians ( who end up marrying Gris after he rapes them and thereby " cures " them of their lesbianism, but not before various ingenious tortures, one of which involve a cheese grater and chili powder ); he repeatedly finds himself losing large amounts of money, becoming broke, and having to concoct wild schemes to save himself from his creditors ; he has an affair with a young nymphomaniac teenage girl whom he cannot escape ; he hires a hit man to kill Heller's fiancé, only to stumble through the affair and end up being a target for the hit man himself ; he embarks on a long cruise through the Mediterranean ( mirroring Hubbard's own voyages through the area in the 1970s ); and finally, Gris becomes the target after Heller realizes that he is behind the operation to disrupt his mission.

Although a small amount of frequency drift may occur throughout the course of a day, power companies actively adjust the line frequency to prevent mechanically driven clocks from gradually gaining or losing time.

Around 875, Norwegian jarls, or princes, came to these islands to avoid losing their independence in the course of King Harald Fairhair's unification of Norway, but Harald pursued them and conquered the Hebrides as well as Man, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

Many of them are working herding dogs, but some have been bred for conformation showing and as pets, sometimes losing their working instincts in the course of selection for appearance or for a more subdued temperament.

* June 28 – In the early morning hours, 35 British bombers attempting an attack on Bremen stray so far off course that they mistakenly bomb Hamburg – northeast of Bremen – instead, losing five of their number to German night fighters over the city while killing seven people, injuring 39, and leaving 280 homeless.

After losing sight of them, the Ariel is caught up in two nights of dark, stormy weather and finds herself fifty miles off course with the wind dead on shore.

Of course Pierre will not kill his own father, so he refuses to fight, losing the respect of the Riffs.

The character develops greatly over the course of these productions, from a timid victim of the first film to a hardened warrior on the verge of losing touch with her own humanity.

At some events, only one truck is on the course at a time, while most feature two drivers racing each other on symmetrical tracks, with the losing driver eliminated in single-elimination tournament fashion.

Kállay, like Horthy, knew that Germany was losing the war, and had put out numerous feelers to the West, a course which didn't sit well with Berlin.

Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits.

Their league form during the 2011 / 12 season didn't improve and after losing some influential players during the course of the season, they again finished bottom of the league for the second year running behind Strathspey Thistle.

He explains his backstory over the course of the mission via phoning the player, including him losing his money gambling in the Penguin's Iceberg Lounge, eventually revealing he feels his only purpose in life is killing.

" The report clearly stated that " It is highly desirable and advisable to repeal the Act altogether, without of course, losing sight of the overwhelming desire of an overwhelming majority of the East region that the Army should remain ( though the Act should go ).

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride -- a course that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in a tactical mess.

Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Of course, it must not be forgotten that in achieving this historical feat, Prokofieff had the vast resources of his people behind him ; ;

It worried him, this inability to get the simplest things done in the course of a day.

After the diagnosing, he left the course, convinced that it could do him no good.

probably it is correct to think of it as a matter of a well-grooved, stereotyped mode of expression -- and no, or but a few, other communicational grooves, as yet -- being there, available for the patient's use, as newly-emerging emotions and ideas well up in him over the course of months.

In to tell him, of course, to is normally unstressed.

The best course is to recover his physical excitement by a change of pace that makes him ardent again.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

He, of course, must have been equally unprepared for what confronted him, but, nonetheless, I did find his reaction startling.

But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

The pair was practicing throwing the discus when a discus thrown by Apollo was blown off course by the jealous Zephyrus and struck Hyacinthus in the head, killing him instantly.

Under the title of Reconnaissances magnetiques he published in 1890 an account of the magnetic observations made by him in the course of several journeys to the Red Sea and the Levant.

In the course of these travels he made a point of complying with all local enactments, even where such compliance laid him open to the charge of inconsistency ( Yer.

His reputation was not confined to Europe ; a Chinese mandarin sent him a letter addressed to " the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe ," and it reached him in due course.