1.   At one stroke, the country lost two outstanding leaders.

2.   People think our country has lost its sense of purpose and direction.

3.   With a fixed exchange rate, has not this country badly lost competitiveness?

4.   The impulse to establish different areas of comparative advantage when a country loses market share to the industries of another country may be lacking.

5.   The country has lost so many of the good things we achieved after the war.

6.   And our country will lose a significant voice for justice.

7.   As a result, the Latin American country lost some U.S. aid and trade benefits.

8.   As the country progressively lost confidence over the three generations of the previous century it became trapped by a mentality that everything was wrong with the world.

9.   A few other countries have lost their votes for this reason, such as Bengladesh and Uganda.

10.   A country can lose export competitiveness if the real value of its currency rises, either as inflation abates or as the hard-currency peg softens.