Sentence examples for hopeless venture from inspiring English sources
Vaughn A. Carney Stowe, Vt., Aug. 23, 2007 To the Editor: President Bush regularly revises history, using any analogy, no matter how contorted and inaccurate, to try to maintain support for his hopeless venture in Iraq.
It was a moment when I found the courage that I had lost somewhere between my doubts about the place and what I believed to be a hopeless venture.
Frederick C. Weyand, who served as the commander of American forces in Vietnam in the final year of the war, a duty he carried out despite having become convinced as early as 1967 that the war was a hopeless venture, died on Wednesday at his home in Honolulu.
"Craig is just a hopeless businessman," Alan G. Walton, a venture capitalist and a friend of Dr. Venter, says only half-jokingly.
"It's pretty hopeless," Sequoia Capital's Michael Goguen said of companies looking to venture capitalists for second, third and fourth rounds of funding.
Yet, strangely, having pointed out all the parallels, Feifer persists in thinking of the American venture as a "historic opportunity" undermined by the second front, in Iraq, rather than as intrinsically hopeless.
