Sentence examples for hopeless task to from inspiring English sources

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.

Alex Mcleish's gamble of fielding nine understudies reaped a rich dividend when Birmingham City scored three times in four minutes to leave Milton Keynes Dons facing a hopeless task to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup at St Andrew's last night.

Answering the charge that it's a hopeless task to wade into a pool that already contains such a vast, well-resourced competitor, Neron is upbeat.

Because the parent phthalates are so abundant, it is a hopeless task to measure those compounds without major contamination.

Perhaps he would have been amused by Magrelli's evocation of one of the contexts in which the hopeless task continues to be carried out.

The forces of Mr. Izetbegovic, meanwhile, appear to have a virtually hopeless task in trying to break out of the city, as they have already tried unsuccessfully to do on the Trebevic Mountain below the Serbian position.

That is a hopeless task in regard to his latest attempt to explain the inexcusable pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich.

Come 2016, or 2018, or 2020, or 2026, how can we know for sure that the Democrats will be facing a hopeless task in trying to win Congressional races in places like North Carolina and Georgia — not to mention Arizona, Florida, and Texas, which are also below the 37th Parallel?

Come 2016, or 2018, or 2020, or 2026, how can we know for sure that the Democrats will be facing a hopeless task in trying to win Congressional races in places like North Carolina and Georgia not to mention Arizona, Florida, and Texas, which are also below the 37th Parallel?

He was on the NAACP's board for decades quitting when he thought it assumed too moderate a position and during his World War II service he had the hopeless task of trying to boost the morale of ill-treated black recruits at Southern army bases.

He was on the NAACP's board for decades--quitting when he thought it assumed too moderate a position--and during his World War II service he had the hopeless task of trying to boost the morale of ill-treated black recruits at Southern army bases.