Rodney Scott said that he sometimes thought his brother did not do everything he could to catch up, but that Walter seemed to consider it a hopeless cause.
Ms. Owen would probably never have had a chance to run for the Supreme Court, because everyone considered it a hopeless task to oppose the enormously popular incumbent, Justice Lloyd Doggett.
Consider the hopeless hodgepodge that goes under the name Sara Lee Corp.
A 46-story, $3,000-a-square-foot condo-hotel with that very name is climbing into the skyline from a section of Manhattan once considered so hopeless that it might as well be razed to accommodate an expressway.
In our practice, withdrawal of fluids or nutrition is seen to be unethical, whereas termination of controlled ventilation can be considered in hopeless cases (it is not indicated whether the patient is breathing spontaneously).
The puzzles are obvious to all but the most hopeless gamer — and I consider myself a hopeless gamer — and the side quests, which include card collecting, are about as exciting as watching paint dry.
It seems clear, though, that the filmmakers consider that battle hopeless as far as the Afghans are concerned.
Most people consider Trammell a hopeless underdog, but you won't find that sort of confident assertion here.
And the slightest bit of empathy should make these local governments consider the utterly hopeless situation they've created for their community's poorest residents.
Of course, a lot of people consider this a hopeless strategy: in their view, physical books are "technologically obsolete," and the book industry is heading down the path that the music industry took, where digital downloads decimated CD sales and put record stores out of business.
