a losing battle

When he tried to flatten his unruly hair, it told him "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear. "

But for small businesses with tight salary budgets, using pay to keep top talent from going to larger rivals is often a losing battle.

If the party is still trying to keep its members atheist, it is fighting a losing battle.

I keep trying to get Keith to tidy his room but I'm fighting a losing battle.

China's steelmakers seem to be fighting a losing battle in this year's iron-ore price negotiations.

It has long been a losing battle for Taiwan, which is now recognised by only 23 countries, mostly small, poor ones.

Some are evidently fighting a losing battle with drugs and alcohol, while others look more in keeping with an old folks' home.

Arguing against the forces of digitalization is as much a losing battle as cursing the coming of the evening tide.

E-commerce made us more convenient and efficient purchases on the Internet can be fighting a losing battle, select products.

Those who fight against the truth are fighting a losing battle.

He keeps trying new hair lotions to stave off baldness but I'm afraid he's fighting a losing battle.

Throughout the world, concrete infrastructure reinforced with steel is waging a losing battle against corrosion.

The newspaper industry is in trouble after fighting a losing battle with the ever faster and more efficient internet for readership.

In a city that's already been fighting a losing battle with pollution for some years now, we just don't have the means.

He works with his neighbours to build shelters for the alpaca to give some protection from the elements, but he is fighting a losing battle.

China's rusting, labor intensive coastal factories may be fighting a losing battle .

At my age, I'm fighting a losing battle.

But the episode was a losing battle in Israel's drawn-out war in 2010 to maintain its international reputation.

Others who want change take the attitude of "wait and see, " rather than risk a losing battle.

Anyone who tries to resist the spread of new technology is fighting a losing battle.

but despite the noble aims , the world as a whole is fighting a losing battle.

Fighting your friends' natural personality is a losing battle.

Newspapers are fighting a losing battle with the blogosphere.

The Neri study, supported by strong anecdotal evidence, suggests he is fighting a losing battle.

Even Mr Ishihara's friends say he may be fighting a losing battle.

Ultimately, the government may be fighting a losing battle against cheap imports.

"The Commission will fight a losing battle, " says Mr Gros.

Mercedes' ESP stability control does its best to keep these super-sedans docile, though sometimes it's a losing battle.

Yet the impression remains that the government is fighting a losing battle.

The city sprays to control them, but it's a losing battle when we get heavy rain.

And the reason it's a losing battle is because the damage is continuing to accumulate.

This is, per a UN report, a losing battle.

he is forced into a losing battle with marauding sharks;

Policy makers continue to wage a losing battle against deflation;

To fight a losing battle