Sentences with phrase «at a stroke loses»

Owen Smith says we need to win then perhaps presents himself as part of the ELITE arrogantly calling for a second EC referendum (against the democratic will of the British people) and at a stroke loses 17.4 m Out voters!

Let's focus for a moment on what this means — the NHS nurse, the hard - pressed teacher and the bus driver, all of whom help to ensure our essential services keep running, will at a stroke lose their democratic voice.

At a stroke they lost a generation's worth of knowledge, expertise and research for the sake of saving a few quid.

Not exact matches

He teamed with Sam Snead to win the international Canada Cup for the U.S. in Ireland, and then lost the British Open at St. Andrews by a single stroke when another driving finish fell just short.

This will be remembered as the Masters Ed Sneed lost as much as the or Fuzzy Zoeller won, for Sneed not only had that three - shot lead on Zoeller and Watson with three holes to play, but he also had six strokes on Zoeller and at least five on everybody else at the start of the day.

At Hilton Head he blew a four - stroke lead on Sunday and lost a grueling five - hole playoff to Stewart Cink.

Nevertheless, Lord Mandelson approved plans to outsource the new helpline, at one stroke losing the expertise of the HMRC officials who currently give this advice and their vital link to enforcement bodies.

«It can not be right that a two - earner family each earning # 42,000 would keep all their child benefit, but a single - earner family on # 43,000 would lose it all at a stroke.»

People who have this type of stroke as adults often lose their ability to use and understand language, said study coauthor Elissa Newport, a neurology researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), for instance, would lose more than 11 per cent of its funding at a stroke.

In a stroke of bad luck, he lost his funding at about the same time the tenure committee reached its decision, which didn't help his job search.

Recently, the team around Kerkhoff and Schaadt collaborated with Professor of Neurology Dr. Stephan Brandt and his colleague Dr. Antje Kraft, both at the Berlin Charité, in treating and supervising a patient who had lost his stereoscopic visual perception as a result of a stroke.

If you want to lose * weight and at the same time lessen your risk for certain diseases such as diabetes and stroke.

In Michael Haneke's Amour, Palme d'Or winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) watches over his loved one, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), as she gradually loses control of the precious attributes of body and mind after a series of strokes.

At a stroke, you lose the right to loan deferment or forbearance, which were options still available to you.

«Sometimes we have to be looking at the brush strokes, but sometimes we also have to step back and look at the big picture, and that is why real estate investors can feel like they're losing when they're actually winning sometimes.»

You can be cruising at a couple strokes over par, holding strong on the leaderboards, then while shooting across your second water trap on a par 4, the ball trajectory fails you and you lose two strokes to a water hazard.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

It would additionally, at a stroke, dramatically cut the numbers of people killed or badly hurt on the roads, saving millions of pounds and - more importantly - reducing the number of lives lost or devastated through grief or grave injury.

It's not at all uncommon for stroke victims to lose control of a part of their body.