Sentence examples for lost cause that from inspiring English sources

The British government is resigned to the lost cause that has been Cameron's aggressive, personalised battle to halt Juncker, the former Luxembourg prime minister.

But political analysts have begun portraying the opposition challenge as a lost cause that will soon fizzle.

It wasn't until after national groups like the Civil War Preservation Trust decided last year that the battlefield was a lost cause that Mr. Hicks scored a coup for preservationists.

Today, Smash Hits is a lost cause that has somehow contrived to shed 840,000 readers in the past 17 years.

Of course, it would be nice to get some money back for the lost cause that was the England 2018 World Cup bid.

In the lost cause that was the semi-final at Durham, his striking was clean from first ball to last, the one that signalled the end of the match.

None of those results is likely, though European soccer has certainly known lost causes that have pulled out success against the prevailing odds.

Homelessness seems to be a losing cause that doesn't help a candidate win votes.

But that's what people of faith and conscience have always taken on -- lost causes that become movements that finally make a change.

Jason Smith was if anything more impressive for his tireless efforts in this losing cause that he has been in winning Super League's Player of the Month award for April, but he was badly let down by some of his team-mates, notably Lee Jackson whose late removal was greeted by cheers from the impeccably behaved Threepenny Stand.

But Roberts was a lost cause by that point, the game was all but lost by the Orioles.