1.   And the fact is that Arizona year in and year out would probably have more to lose than gain from a tournament.

2.   Because many more athletes lose than win.

3.   Better to lose than to fish for votes with such conservative gimmicks as curfews and uniforms for schoolchildren.

4.   After all, it is the resorts, particularly resorts at lower altitudes, that have much more to lose than the racers.

5.   After all, more drug battles have been lost than won.

6.   After all, while it may indeed be better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, it can get old after a while.

7.   Both sides realized that they had more to lose than to gain from such competition.

8.   Bre-X now has a lot more to lose than Barrick, analysts said.

9.   But Boeing has more to lose than Lockheed Martin should Chile pick one of the two European fighters, according to Aboulafia.

10.   But the Yankees players spoke less about what was lost than what they had accomplished.