1.   Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories.

2.   You lost that contest with my Sam because I Decided you had to lose it.

3.   DUBLINER Paul Griffin faces the possibility of being eliminated from the European Championships without losing a contest.

4.   Along the way, she lost bitter contests for Congress and the railroad commission.

5.   And though Duquette privately feared he had lost the contest for Ramirez, he faced his inquisitors in the hotel lobby as if the battle had just been joined.

6.   Al Gore appears to have received the most popular votes nationwide but may well lose the contest for electoral votes.

7.   But Buchanan pledged that he would not accept a third-party nomination if he loses the Republican contest to Dole or Gramm.

8.   But that contest was lost early when the Sonics, slowed by a virus-weakened Payton, never took it hard to the Kings.

9.   During his entire career, Dole never lost a contest in his home state.

10.   He surfs twice a week, but usually loses contests, he said, because he is almost always the oldest guy out there.