In this programme, she plays a princess who has lost her island, Alaunus, to demonic forces and is now determined to win it back.

The Communists were outlawed and persecuted in Greece after they lost a bloody civil war to conservative forces 40 years ago.

After losing several battles to inferior forces, the Americans retreated in disarray in October 1813.

The overriding concern was that Arabs might be losing control of their destiny to outside forces.

It was lost again to Chinese and North Korean forces in early 1951.

Harper was clearly a man who did not relish losing a battle to forces beyond his control.

In 1949, they fled to Taiwan with the rest of the Nationalist government after losing a civil war to Communist forces.

After the area was secured during the Warsaw Uprising and subsequently again lost to German forces.

"I lost the laser radar module to tidal forces."

Even today's doctors, lawyers and cops are shown losing to forces beyond their - oops, there's that word again - control.