21.   She had succumbed to despair, and seemed, to those on shore, to have lost the will to try to save herself.

22.   Sickly or injured people who have lost their will to live are not eligible.

23.   Some Russian historians now speculate that, with his one and only true love gone, he may have lost the will to live.

24.   Television, particularly network prime-time programming, has lost its will to take risks.

25.   The bad thing will be whoever loses will have to hear the other brag all year.

26.   The IRA has splintered several times this century, usually after a maverick wing had decided the core group had lost its will to fight.

27.   The losing cricket retreats, usually losing its will to fight.

28.   The next night, his players reacted like automatons who had long lost the will to play.

29.   The pond water was beginning to chill, but not so much that the fish lost their will to bite the hook.

30.   They were losing the will to go on.