Sentence examples for as lost causes from inspiring English sources

Authorities have become increasingly concerned at the type of recent violence, as much as the rising number of attacks, with numerous cases of families being killed in areas that three years ago were seen as lost causes.

At the same time, we see the surrogate family that Anais and the other kids in the Panopticon gradually form, supporting one another against the system and its attempt to define them as lost causes, recidivist outlaws or hopeless cases.

The Democrats who dominate the State Senate sometimes advocate things that have been abandoned as lost causes in Washington, like higher income taxes and government-run health care, while the Republicans who hold a narrow majority in the State House of Representatives rarely espouse the social conservatism that dominates the party elsewhere.

I have to engage white people whom I have written off as lost causes too.

He isn't willing to write these children off as lost causes though and feels that poverty and systematic neglect have led to this escalation in violence. .

On the job at Panasonic, he remembers being the one who could coax stubborn tape decks back to life and salvage machines that others regarded as lost causes.

The Egyptian, on 18 months' loan from Roma, tried his luck from all sorts of angles in seeking to find his range and worked hard to hold the ball up as well as chasing seemingly lost causes.

But what Lucan was really pointing out is that it is worth keeping an eye on the lost causes, as well as the successful ones: the vanquished as well as the victors.

I think that he thinks of his brethren as, in some ways, lost causes, whereas if he writes a really trenchant, harsh, readable opinion he will get the attention of law students and the next generation.

As a supporter of (mainly, but not always) lost causes, as an Old Testament prophet, as a diarist – his 10 volumes of diaries cover more than 60 years.

What was instructive in their defeat to a Gloucester side still in the assembly process was that some of the new recruits have yet to be imbued with traditional Leicester virtues, such as fighting for lost causes.