Sentence examples for lost cause for from inspiring English sources

By then, the game was a lost cause for the Mets.

Calzaghe 10-8 Round 9 It is now pretty much a lost cause for Jones.

The match had begun to look like a lost cause for the British Empire, Tennis Division.

HIGH SCHOOL was a lost cause for Priscilla Rivera, a child of the downcast mill city of Holyoke, Mass.

Based on past behavior, Nebraska might be a lost cause for the Democrats – the state has consistently voted Republican in the last 12 US presidential elections.

So I don't think it'll ever be a lost cause for companies and stores trying to get kids back into the hobby".

The anticipated scrap between Mo Mowlam, the hugely popular ex-secretary of state for Northern Ireland and Tony Benn, much loved fighter of lost causes, for the sought after prize of "most missed politician" was a disappointment.

Jesse Ryder and Tom Westley scored half-centuries in a losing cause for the hosts.

Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk scored once in a losing cause for St . Petersburg

When Medicare was first proposed, in the late nineteen-fifties, national health insurance had been a losing cause for decades.

Captain Lent is probably right, but trying to tell football anything even mildly nonreverential, much less critical, has been a losing cause for more than a century.