It completely lost its coherence as a parliamentary force in the late 1940s, and did not run any candidates in the 1949 election.

Well before the tragic suicide of his predecessor, Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, the feeling inside the Navy was that the service had lost its focus as a fighting force.

NATO's well-armed units could probably accomplish that mission without insuperable difficulties, but would risk losing their status as a neutral force.

Since the heyday of players like Carlos Valderrama, Colombia have lost their way as a footballing force.

Keep up the humor and maybe the left isn't all but lost as a positive force in society.

Woods pinpointed 1987 as the year when the IFP started losing ground as a political force.

His rapid-fire moves have shaken up a company so battered by a brutal economic restructuring and family hardships - including a 1973 kidnapping that ended in the murder of a Garza patriarch - that it was in danger of losing its place as a force in the Mexican economy.

Mr. Cuomo said he had not lost confidence in the liberal vision of government as a force for good.

He resigned in 1928 after a Klan-backed Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, Owen Brewster, lost his primary contest to Sen. Frederick Hale, signalling the eclipse of the Klan as a force in Maine politics.

He reasoned that upon hearing the mournful ballad the soldiers grew so homesick that they lost their effectiveness as a fighting force.