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And I overheard an adult saying he could sing better than me but he did not win any prize all because he lost out to my suit!

There was more disappointment for The King's Speech as Bonham Carter, who played Queen Elizabeth, lost out to Melissa Leo for The Fighter.

The party appears to have lost out to a breakaway centre-right grouping and a new Green party.

He says the 'candle cut' is an old tradition which has lost out to scissors over the years, reports Asian Age.

Two years ago, Tata lost out to farmers in West Bengal who refused to make way for a factory to churn out Nano cars.

And both Arcelor and Mittal recently lost out to a domestic bidder for a slice of Erdemir, a Turkish state-owned steel firm.

StanChart, he said, had lost out to Asian rivals in battles to recruit bankers because the FSA code bans it from paying guaranteed bonuses.

You see, Theo's faith lost out to chance. So, why bother if life's going to make its own choices?

But eventually it lost out to a host of hardware makers whose products were compatible with Microsoft's operating systems.

"If we look at the matches we've lost, we haven't lost out to worked moves, and this makes us feel calmer, " he said.

Many felt they had already lost out to London-based firms, explained Michaela Johns, director of business services at Tenon.

Bombardier's cutbacks come after it lost out to Siemens, a German rival, for a British government contract.

Joost started by offering video through its own software application, but lost out to Hulu and did an about-face.

My uncle lost out to his competitors because he wasn't willing to fight fire with fire.

Buffalo chicken salad and steak fajita wraps, the options for the return flight, lost out to chicken Caesar salads.

An Oscars regular, Clooney was a best actor nominee in 2008 for Michael Clayton but lost out to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.

Last summer, it lost out to Nokia Siemens Networks in bidding for the wireless network assets of Motorola.

Last month, it lost out to General Mills in the auction for a 50 per cent stake in Yoplait, the French yoghurt maker.

This has allowed those who lost out to complain that Indonesia's "experiment" in local democracy has failed.

India would also like to invest in Myanmar's gas sector but has largely lost out to China.

Pigs don't have wings, but that's not because winged pigs once lost out to wingless ones.

India 's oil companies have often lost out to China in the past while bidding for overseas assets.

Poor Dr Watson lost out to Holmes every time.