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Microsoft executives left no doubt that they had been forced to act after losing ground to Google in the online advertising business.

Tip: Don't oversell your ideas and push against the company's direction, which might risk losing ground in the long run.

It had been losing ground since Friday amid market disappointment at the outcome of the EU summit.

The result was that Mr. Obama appeared on the world stage as a leader of a country losing ground to a rising China.

Some say that the very soul of Parisian nightlife is at stake and feel the city is losing ground to London, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Berlin.

Nonetheless, the company is far from owning this market and might be at risk of losing ground, according to some experts here.

The argument that defence must be sacrosanct while every other part of the budget may be cut is losing ground even among Republicans.

But he said freedom is taking hold in Iraq, and the extremists and terrorists are losing ground.

Westerners are apprehensive as they see secular-minded democrats losing ground to Islamic fundamentalists.

Pakistan is losing ground on the bed sheet market while more resisting with cotton towels , thanks to US quotas on Chinese shipments.

Those that do not will find it difficult to attract talented staff and risk losing ground to their competitors.

Both Yahoo and Microsoft had been distant second and third players losing ground over time.

But if these installation issues aren't ironed out, Ubuntu is going to find itself losing ground.

While American CEOs are enjoying large financial gains, the companies they lead may be struggling or even losing ground.

But a new study claims that it's losing ground to ordinary petrol and diesel cars.

72% portrayed it as an endless struggle in which they were neither gaining nor losing ground.

The leader is losing ground as the rest of the runners accelerate.

But, he's losing ground here. He's running out of energy.

We had been losing ground in average incomes since 1973, and by the 1980s, four in ten workers were experiencing declining incomes.

Yet his party has also been losing ground in its stronghold, Punjab, and has little support elsewhere.

This model is losing ground to another model of publicness, made possible by media that blur distinctions between centers and peripheries.

An enormous shrieking noise is followed by Miss Daisy's front legs lifting up and losing ground.

Arafat was afraid of being criticized by other Arab leaders; Barak was losing ground to Sharon at home.

the leader losing ground an the rest of the runners accelerate.

The city's share of the global lighter market remains large but is losing ground, having slipped to about 70 per cent.

The struggle to save the old buildings in the town is losing ground because of the need for new business offices.

So let's dispense with nearsighted fears about losing ground to inventive Asian tigers.

Wall Street followed Europe and most Asian exchanges in losing ground on Wednesday.

His government was already losing ground in the polls after a scandal over public-works contracts.

People are feeling insecure. There are grave concerns about jobs moving overseas and about losing ground to Asian countries.

Essentially, negative life lessons are designed to keep us from losing ground in our personal growth and development.

But since around 1990 the denomination has been losing ground, relative to America's population, to other evangelical churches.

America please note your decline in the world. We just keep losing ground, emerging nations are kicking our asses on so many levels.

The television programme was rapidly losing ground in the ratings.

Mining stocks led the fall, with financial stocks also losing ground.

I ain't play in' when safin' kings of the ghetto feel they losing ground.

IE is losing ground on last century's dominant computing platform.

Then, ATM started losing ground in campus backbones, as Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 3 switching came to the fore.

The theater is quickly losing ground to television.

Lenovo is losing ground to rivals and Yang is replacing Amelio as CEO.

A new AP-Yahoo poll shows John McCain is losing ground in how favorably he's seen.

A decade ago its exporters were losing ground to China.

We're losing ground because what we are doing is wrong, even though we work very hard and give our best effort.

Its members will be called the "lost mountain lost ground, losing ground. "

Timothy Noah , The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It ; "Losing Ground "

Our side is losing ground.

If you are not doing something to capture this value, you're losing ground to competitors.

China Mobile has been slowly losing ground to smaller rivals since the government restructured the sector last year.

The insurgency has been steadily losing ground in the capital since last year.

Losing ground, I'm reaching for you, you, you

Crashing down, losing ground til I see you again

And when I'm scared and losing ground;