1.   Both professional and amateur investors continue to trade actively, suffering needless losses and costing themselves a bundle in commissions.

2.   It was, a state investigating commission would later conclude, an assault both ill-conceived and poorly executed, leading to needless loss of life.

3.   Needless loss of life resulted from a policy that emphasized backing away from provocation and discouraging self-defense.

4.   Reading this biography, one is struck with a sense of needless loss.