The American military applied it and turned around an increasingly hopeless war, according to one narrative.
Court fee increases that were hastily introduced to plug a £100m hole in the Ministry of Justice's budget were based on "hopeless" evidence, according to the most senior civil judge in England and Wales.
Just before Franklin Pierce took office, in 1853, his son died in a train accident, and Pierce's Presidency was marked by the "dead weight of hopeless sorrow," according to his biographer Roy Franklin Nichols.
Glorious Misadventures tells of how "Russians make hopeless colonialists," according to Matthews, from Russian and Welsh extraction, whose own complex family history was chronicled in his former book Stalin's Children.
Use loopholes to your advantage That said, trying to get out of a pricey cell phone contract doesn't have to be an entirely hopeless endeavor, at least not according to Jon Colgan, founder and chief executive of CellBreaker.
"Hopelessness doesn't get more hopeless than when a Troll loses hope," according to Mitchell.
But all is not hopeless for juveniles in Florida's justice system, according to many advocates.
The upshot, according to the report: "Retirement isn't hopeless, but it will be difficult".
According to Brenda the Prostitution Enforcement Task Force (PETF) is also pretty hopeless as catching unlicensed operators.
According to Brenda the Prostitution Enforcement Task Force (PETF) is also pretty hopeless at catching unlicensed operators.
