Sentence examples for a hopeless position from inspiring English sources
He had been in a hopeless position on clay before, just three years earlier.
The rest was a clinic, and Carlsen resigned in a hopeless position.
In heavy rough, Nicklaus looked in a hopeless position, and here's where Peter Alliss takes over.
Black lost on time, but he was in a hopeless position.
He is now five down with five to play, which by anybody's reckoning is a hopeless position to be in.
He resigned because he faced 45... Kg7 46 Qg6 Kh8 47 Nf7 Qf7 48 Qf7, with a hopeless position.
As I've already reported, Bloomberg's personal super PAC, Independence America, contributed $2.7 million to the campaign of Gloria Negrete McLeod in California's 35th district -- as a result of which she surged from a nearly hopeless position to crush Rep. Joe Baca, a Democrat blessed by the NRA with a despicable A rating.
Sandwiched in between was an acrimonious split with his then chairman, Milan Mandaric, and a relegation with Southampton, although he revived the Saints from a near hopeless position to chisel out a chance of survival going into the final day of the 2004-05 campaign.
To be part of such an audacious second-half comeback attempt from a seemingly hopeless position is the kind of experience a Welsh No10 can be expected to relish.
Scotland played a part in their own downfall, Machan's horrible swipe at Mohammad Nabi beginning a regular fall of wickets that left them in a seemingly hopeless position.
It is usually considered poor etiquette to play on in a truly hopeless position, and for this reason high level games rarely end with a checkmate.
