1.   Led by American captain Tony Hanson they eventually lost before a capacity crowd.

2.   And look carefully at who wins and who loses before going overboard for a Republican tax cut.

3.   Before someone loses his career, and maybe his life.

4.   A prosecutor who loses before the jury gets a second, fresh opportunity to secure a death sentence.

5.   After losing before the state Supreme Court, Highway Police appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case.

6.   Against the Bullets and Clippers, the Nets played badly enough to lose before scrapping out victories.

7.   But the fact that an innocent life had to be lost before changes were made has driven a public concern by no means limited to minority communities.

8.   Even though Inter was without Ro-naldo when it lost to Udinese before the holiday break, Simoni could not likely have endured a second successive defeat.

9.   Greg Maddux shouldered the blame for a game he thought the Braves lost long before the ninth.

10.   If Yevgeny Kafelnikov loses before the final this week in Moscow, Rusedski is in.