lost cause

It was, generally, regarded as something of a lost cause.

"I was lost, 'cause I had been out of school for so long. You know, I was young and had a crazy mind, " he says.

His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bath was a lost cause right from the start!

It's read and replayed and ends the same way Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.

Some see Japan's unilateral intervention as a lost cause and say that Tokyo should pressure its biggest trading partner to help.

Various explanations have been offered for why Saif would give up the high-flying life to become a warrior for his father's lost cause.

In many enterprises in rare earth separation, low value of the element is not one to be abandoned, as at lost, cause pollution and waste.

'If it's over, it's over, ' says the 28-year-old marketing representative. 'I don't believe in holding on to a lost cause. '

The police searched for the missing girl for two weeks, but finally gave it up as a lost cause.

Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.

Others see the White House as a lost cause, whereas liberal Democrats, including Jewish ones, seem increasingly unfriendly.

He speaks from experience as he humorously condemns the phony feudalism of "the lost cause" (slavery).

That's not to say that phonon information processing is a lost cause.

I was hoping this trip would provide some much-needed field experience for what I feared was a lost cause.

It was a foolish risk, taken in a lost cause, but he was itching to get to it.

To atone for that Tyrion made an attempt to teach her cyvasse, though he soon realized that was a lost cause.

She wondered if Melanie, in the midst of mourning for the lost Cause , had thought of this.

"The state department basically saw it as a lost cause, " says one state department official.

Another apparently lost cause, immigration reform, is unpopular with conservatives, but is supported by many businesspeople.

Our efforts to change the unfair regulations at work turned out to be a lost cause.

If the Lost Cause, sanctified by so much heroism and so many deaths, had a living justification, its justification was General Lee.

Are you lost ? cause it is so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.

Presumably the companies working together on International Data Privacy Day don't believe that privacy online is a lost cause.

Not as adviser to Mr Bush; most politicos have given the president up as a lost cause.

They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause.

Sumatra may be a lost cause, like much of Kalimantan.

Co-operation on fiscal reform might not be a lost cause, after all.

Not everyone views the notion of real appreciation in real estate as a lost cause.

John wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when I tell him it's a lost cause.

I don't know why you think that you're a lost cause.

when to give up on a particular patient as a lost cause.

But that's a lost cause, says d'Espagnat, who studied particle physics early in his career.

It didn't take long for Renault to decide that the R29 was a lost cause, the team halting development and focusing on 2010 plans.

Sensing a lost cause, he changed tactics.

Forget it. We tried, but phase three is a lost cause.

Finding love where you labor is never a lost cause.

It will not make the British public love the EU: that is a lost cause.

You fight for a marriage, and sometimes even that is a lost cause.

Conquest of Britain is a lost cause.

"It's seen as a lost cause. "

My other brother is a lost cause.

How could I be? Am Ia lost cause then?

They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.

You are a lost cause.

There is nothing we can do about it. It's a lost cause.

I'm lost cause i cry.

Every day, every day there was a lost cause. But we kept fighting.

Oh you and I You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost Cause you had a bad day

I know it is much more romantic to support the lost cause that is Tibet but reality is that a show of strength is far more effective.

Right from the start, Mario, an ethnic Croatian artillery specialist from Bosnia, suspected it was a lost cause. Eng lishtang. com

seems like such a lost 'cause I can't wait to face you,

Everyday was a lost cause. . . but we kept fighting

a lost cause nobody can save my soul