To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.

Raymond has refused to speculate on whether the " bazaar " development model could be applied to works such as books and music, not wanting to " weaken the winning argument for open-sourcing software by tying it to a potential loser ".

During this period, males fight over females and territory by grappling with one another upon their hind legs with the loser eventually being pinned to the ground.

The first public transmission, with the message " A patient waiter is no loser ", was witnessed by a mostly local crowd.

Roger Wilco, a perpetual loser, is often depicted as the underdog who repeatedly saves the universe ( often by accident )-only to be either ignored or punished for violating minor regulations in the process.

The estimated number of losing tricks ( losers ) in one's hand is determined by examining each suit and assuming that an ace will never be a loser, nor will a king in a 2 + card suit, nor a queen in a 3 + card suit ; accordingly

The city was the respondent in ( and eventual loser of ) the landmark property rights case, Dolan v. City of Tigard, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1994.

Tautly written, it is a treatise on how someone, with all of the skills, can lose if he " wants " to lose ; how a loser is beaten by himself, not by his opponent ; and how he can learn to win, if he can look deeply enough into himself.

The player selected may be either the first loser of a challenge ( as was the case in Survivor: Palau ), or a person selected by either the winning or losing tribe in the tribal phase, or an individual challenge winner in the individual phase.

* Menace or threat card ( s )-card ( s ) held by declarer or dummy which is a loser but which can become a winner when the squeeze is operated

There are also rarer groups of minigames, such as the Bowser minigames requiring the loser to forfeit items or coins and the minimini games, which can only be accessed by characters reduced by the " Mini Mushroom ".

The winner would make a wish that they believed to come true, while the loser would suffer from illness for the year ; however loser can avoid this bad luck by cutting off a strand of hair and praying to the North Star.

A frequent topos in the legends is that a defeated knight would, after revealing his name, ask the victor what his name was: if the victor turned out to be a much stronger and more famous knight ( e. g. one of Arthur's knights ) the loser actually saved face, because he was beaten by a knight already held to be stronger than him, and thus there was no shame in defeat.

If it is tempting to see the Greek revival as the expression of Regency authoritarianism, then the changing conditions of life in Britain made Doric the loser of the Battle of the Styles, dramatically symbolized by the selection of Barry's Gothic design for the Palace of Westminster in 1836.

The loser is also vulnerable as they are subject to the interpretation of criminal justice by winners-law enforcement is often prejudicial, and an independent judiciary is not always available to ensure fairness in how winners of a political conflict deal with losers.

Barrera was knocked down in Round 5 by Jones, and was declared the loser by disqualification and not by knockout because Barrera's cornerman climbed onto the ring to stop the fight as Jones was finishing Barrera.

However, many felt that Malone had behaved as a ' poor loser ' and Oaten won with a majority of 21, 556, gaining 68 % of the vote.

They do not satisfy the independence of irrelevant alternatives criterion, the monotonicity criterion, the participation criterion, the consistency criterion and the independence of clones criterion, while they do satisfy the majority criterion, the mutual majority criterion, the Condorcet loser criterion, and the Smith criterion.

It implies the majority loser criterion.

A slightly weaker ( easier to pass ) version is the majority Condorcet loser criterion, which requires that a candidate who can be defeated by a majority in a head-to-head competition against each other candidate, lose.

Minimax using winning votes or margins satisfies the Condorcet and the Majority criterion, but not the Smith criterion, Mutual majority criterion, Independence of clones criterion, or Condorcet loser criterion.

Another possible rule is to let the loser move first in the next game.

This rule is applied because they must decide a winner and a loser during tournament game.

The loser may add one new rule to the game, and starts the new round.

During the duel, Mai berates Rex on several occasions, prompting him to add an ante rule to the game, with the winner acquiring the loser ’ s best card out on the field.

If " it " touches every other player, the first player touched is the loser ( in the typical rule ), and becomes the next " it " person.

Taylor suffered a cut and was knocked downonce in round five and three times in round eight ( the WBA has since adopated a rule where a fighter is automatically declared a knockout loser if he or she is knocked down three times in the same round ).

Most countries operate under a " loser pays " system, sometimes called the English rule ( in English law it is described as " costs following the event ").

Some tort reform advocates propose adopting a " loser pays " rule in the United States.

DirkJan is a loser who stumbles through life in mostly three-panel comic strips.

The same has been said of Ancient Greek society, a culture where, in Bruno Snell's words, if " honour is destroyed the moral existence of the loser collapses.

Mediation is designed to conclude with an agreement rather than a winner and loser.

Each player's objective is generally to have as many disks one's own color at the end as possible and for one's opponent to have as few — or, technically in consideration of the occasional game in which not all disks are placed, that the difference between the two should be as large as possible if the winner and as small as possible if the loser.

Another three-player game is " California ", " In-and-Out ", or " King of the Court " where play is 1 vs. 1 with the third player remaining in the back court out of play while the other two play a rally ; the rally winner then serves to the player who was sitting out, and the rally loser stays out of play.

The main character, is Larry Laffer who, though still somewhat lovable, is a balding, dorky, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing " loser " in his 40s.

The last person to find the hiding group is the loser.

* Subtract a loser if there is a known 9-card trump fit.

A typical opening bid is assumed to have 15 or fewer half losers ( i. e. half a loser more than in the basic LTC method ).

All LTC methods are only valid if trump fit ( 4-4, 5-3 or better ) is evident and, even then, care is required to avoid counting double values in the same suit e. g. KQxx ( 1 loser in LTC ) opposite a singleton x ( also 1 loser in LTC ).

Even in the afterglow of a wonderful evening, Marty is subjected the next day to ridicule from his friends, who insist that the girl is a homely loser not worth pursuing.

Anton surpasses his older brother in many aspects including a game that they call " chicken ": both swim out to sea, and the first to give up and swim back to shore is the loser.