Having lived with cats my whole life, I'm at a loss to understand feline hypertension. |
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Are you one of those cooks who can turn out fancy dishes by the dozen, but are at a loss when it comes to preparing traditional delights? |
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But the advisers, courtiers, and generals that surround the throne are at a loss to determine what it means, much less what to do about it. |
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I for one am at a loss to understand how a hidden camera can have that effect. |
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Feeling at a loss, we get into our canoe and shove off, and then any thoughts of the Dunns' welfare vanishes as we think of our own. |
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So quite why they sent an engineer to my parents house I'm at a loss, other than the obvious of them being a bunch of brain-dead morons. |
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I am at a loss as to know whether thrift is still regarded as a virtue, or whether patriotism has taken on new connotations. |
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Looking everywhere but at them, he found himself unaccustomedly at a loss for words. |
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Why evangelicals should object to confessions of faith I am at a loss to understand. |
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Even the police who were there seemed at a loss as to how to bring the situation back under control. |
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Bosses dropped a bombshell on employees just weeks before Christmas, announcing the company would shut because it was trading at a loss. |
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His what-you-see-is-what-you-get authenticity seemed to defy Wall Street norm, leaving those eager to pigeonhole him at a loss. |
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School's out in an unnamed Japanese city and dour young Masao is at a loss. |
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I have met solitaries that did write their own rituals out, but when it came down to writing a ritual to involve others they were at a loss. |
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He well and truly was at a loss, eyes desperately searching the cafeteria in search of Kaoru or a distraction. |
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Even when the full enormity of the earthquake sank in, the scientists were at a loss to know what to do. |
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He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down. |
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The management accounts for the year end to 28 February 1993 showed trading at a loss. |
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I immediately went to go hop into a game and was promptly at a loss for how to play. |
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We are at a loss to understand how buildings without fire hydrants, ventilation, and other safety measures have been allowed to mushroom. |
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The country has been operating at a loss, as an economy, for a number of years. |
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We can't explain why cornstarch might help rosacea, and we are at a loss why psoriasis might respond to this remedy. |
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Though rarely seen, it appears always to be close at hand and never at a loss for means of locomotion and transport. |
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Security services and politicians, at a loss to know what's next, are more anxious than they let on about an ectoplasmic enemy. |
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One is at a loss whether to call the above ruse a fraud, inducement, immoral force, exploitation or all of these. |
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Others have sold at a loss, or at a figure which does not reflect the value of the goodwill. |
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It's an easy, catch all term that you can apply when you're at a loss for words. |
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I'm still at a loss for a word to describe this stupid, thoughtless insularity. |
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She seems to be at a loss for things to do, like thousands of others of her ilk. |
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Needless to say I was at a loss for words and thought, is he being his humorous self or is he serious? |
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So, returning to the desk, I was momentarily at a loss for suitable Sunday activity. |
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I am at a loss for words to properly describe what I feel when I look at that article. |
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Add to this a low profit margin and you could easily assume that the manufacturer is selling at a loss just to have the business. |
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Again I'm at a loss for words and mention something about how he's a man of great stature. |
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Luckily, they made plenty of other mistakes, so we were never at a loss for entertainment! |
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Others, even though they stayed open, generally operated at a loss in the winter months. |
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If any bus operator is running the business at a loss, he shall surrender the permit. |
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One contractor has said he does not intend to operate at a loss and will now re-evaluate his fees. |
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Bookings are falling because the building is in such a poor state, and so the building is operating at a loss. |
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The other was borrowing substantial funds and operating at a loss continuously. |
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In the past, we were able to write business at a loss because we were making good money on our investments. |
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It also claims 27,000 of the kiosks are running at a loss which has led to the closure of hundreds of boxes around the country. |
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Nothing's more fun to buy than something you're sure is being sold at a loss. |
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It could not meet its obligations to the company and continued to operate at a loss. |
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He admitted the hotel runs at a loss but said that was a result of the subsidised holidays offered to pensioners. |
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Kevin was at a loss over how to offer his son any physical or emotional consolation. |
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We cut back to the splitscreen view so we can also see the studio anchorman, who's obviously similarly at a loss by the outburst of profanity. |
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Still the rustics were at a loss to explain why they continued to consume non-vegetarian food. |
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It's assumed both stores operate at a loss, staying in business to saturate the market and not give up the edge. |
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She was never at a loss for words out of the common, and an increasing deafness made her find talking easier than listening. |
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Aside from our agent, I too was at a loss as to why we were still prevaricating over the deal. |
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They still thought I had secret plans, evil schemes, and I was at a loss as to how to convince them otherwise. |
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Researchers are at a loss to explain the link between maternal depression and childhood aggression. |
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If he does not confess he is at a loss, then he is an impenitent who will not admit his sins. |
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It could not meet its obligations to Hepcoe and continued to operate at a loss. |
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We were at a loss because if we had known how to obtain a disc, we would have done so. |
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Unfortunately, the interim left the property operating at a loss, its coffers drained. |
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When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss. |
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Hundreds of DVDs, CDs and PlayStation games were stolen in the biggest raid on a west Wiltshire library in 20 years, with police at a loss to explain how the burglars got in. |
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Williamson stands by his record of rarely disappointing a customer when they are at a loss as to what suits them. |
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The latest novel from Samantha Harvey is truly superb, but left its reviewer at a loss for how to describe it. |
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When Ellie was 18 months old, their pediatrician, now at a loss for other explanation, suggested they return to a geneticist. |
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He seemed at a loss for words, and then he surprised me with a shy smile. |
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Then we were at a loss for what to do next till I mentioned bowling. |
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Frankly, I am at a loss to explain this astoundingly bad judgment. |
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Jade asked Strong if she was ever at a loss for ideas and if so, how she might wrest herself from a slump. |
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Traders put on the squeeze by buying large amounts of Martha Stewart stock to drive up its price and force the shorts to cover their positions at a loss. |
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So the merchants offer a deal, sometimes at a loss, but then get little future business. |
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I am at a loss to understand on what grounds the Planning Authority deems it acceptable to inflict 59 houses, virtually in one block, at one blow in such a small village. |
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Others were seized as war booty and fell into the hands of collectors who valued them but were often at a loss to understand what they were or who had created them. |
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I'm at a loss to know why we don't get more space in the papers. |
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She was at a loss for words, sputtering incoherently at him. |
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I am at a loss to explain why ferns haven't made a bigger splash in the American landscape, and more specifically our Christmas fern, Polystichum acrostichoides. |
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I didn't know what last time was, but it had to have been bad because Kara's face colored and she seemed at a loss for words, picking to flounce off in a fury instead. |
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First, they could be taxed on sales instead of profit then there would be no creative accounting to run at a loss. |
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In the city of Mosul itself it seems as though ISIS is at a loss. |
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When the serial murders stopped and the BTK killer ceased communications, law enforcement was at a loss. |
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Despite the unique architectural status of the village, the souvenir shop was operating at a loss. |
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Thousands of people across the state lost their coverage in the middle of complex, multimonth procedures and have found themselves at a loss. |
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Hermia is at a loss to see why her lover has abandoned her, and accuses Helena of stealing Lysander away from her. |
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I am at a loss to know what I shall do for spills when she marries the loutsome young hobbledehoy. |
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But after that, she was at a loss, so she did a little research with the help of short erotica and a fetish website. |
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She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband. |
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He claimed the foreign backing allowed Virgin to run at a loss by setting uncompetitively low prices to win customers from Qantas, an allegation Borghetti denied. |
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A quarter of the 2000 companies assessed have seen their profits slump, and in an attempt to retain sales, 737 have already started to overtrade, selling at a loss. |
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There are 4,324 telephone kiosks in Wales, most of them running at a loss. |
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Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. |
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If the successor trustee is the licensee owner's spouse, which is generally the case, he or she might be at a loss for how to go about valuing and selling the assets. |
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I have fixed the parts I understand, and the rest leaves me at a loss. |
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His policies may be ineffective, but he is never at a loss for words. |
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Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. |
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