31.   Some point out that if Jesus did not die on the cross, then that symbol of Christianity has lost its meaning.

32.   That is corruption or the word has lost all meaning.

33.   The Berlin wall has come down and the old divisions of Europe have suddenly lost their meaning.

34.   The best instrument for that is U.N. arms monitoring, not endlessly prolonging sanctions that have nearly done their work and will soon lose their meaning.

35.   The consensus seemed to be that art had suddenly lost its meaning, irony was dead and the world had changed forever.

36.   The increasing commercialization is causing an important day to lose its meaning, he says.

37.   The term, already flogged into a coma, has lost all meaning.

38.   The Skating Four have become accidental celebrities, but their gold medals lost some meaning in the process.

39.   The trenches of the First World War were described as looking like slaughterhouses, but that term has lost literal meaning.