Sentence examples for hopeless state from inspiring English sources

With a deep sigh, Hingis expressed her hopeless state.

The mechanisms of social mobility — scholarships, affirmative action, housing vouchers, Head Start — all involve attempts to convert the poor from chronic outsiders to insiders, to rescue them from what is assumed to be a hopeless state.

"I was suddenly overcome," one says, "by the full horror of Paris, the full horror of the French language... the sad, hopeless state of South Americans lost in Europe, lost in the world".

Yet, looking at the hopeless state of Iraq and its many communities, the relentless pressure of suicide killings in poor neighbourhoods, it's hard to see what can be done that has a chance of success in the short term.

The bursting of the property bubble exposed the hopeless state of the banks – particularly Anglo-Irish Bank, which had grown like Jack's beanstalk, manured by the crazy spiral of property "investment".

"If we don't find those children, then for me Nigeria is a hopeless state," he added.

"While Camden's situation is difficult and complicated, it is not necessarily hopeless," stated the report, the result of a three-month study conducted for the Annie Casey Foundation, based in Baltimore, by the McKinsey & Company consulting firm.

They have said nothing, for example, about the widespread consumption of drugs and alcohol among Libya's youth, about the young men who fill Tripoli's costal cafés late into the night, descending into hopeless states of intoxication before every weekend.

"North Korea as a whole is a hopeless rogue state, and it will continue to launch provocations," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying by the national news agency Yonhap during his visit to the rocket command.

Webb launched into a thoughtful discussion on counter-terror strategies and their outcomes, between Somalia, a hopeless failed state into which Special Forces were nevertheless able to operate against al Qaeda effectively, and Iraq, where al Qaeda bugged out.

Now, in our hopeless in-between state, casual, Americanised alternatives are creeping in: "Yo", "Wassup", "Word", "Wasabi".