Sentence examples for seems a lost cause from inspiring English sources

But handing back real power seems a lost cause.

Rebranding Mr Brown, whose personal ratings remain dismal, seems a lost cause.

But the EU probably has greater influence in its eastern borderlands.For now Belarus seems a lost cause, unmoved by EU blandishments or sanctions.

At times in this exhibition, for all the curators' attempts to put him back into the limelight, Giorgione seems a lost cause.

That was part of ErotICA, an event that aimed to put "some of the finest pornographic minds together with artists and writers".At first sight, modesty seems a lost cause in Britain.

He calls bankers "parasites" and hopes to use the government's new public investment bank to help save French manufacturing.Manufacturing in France has fallen to only 11%of GDP, about the same as in Britain and far less than in Germany or ItalyYet this seems a lost cause.

At first it seemed a lost cause.

The brutal treatment of the original brick and the tightly bonded stucco have made restoration seem a lost cause.

Of course, since the biggest export market for many European nations is other EU nations, this might seem a lost cause.

Family and friends of the victim, David Burns, attended the trial, and expressed their relief afterward about a case that had seemed a lost cause.

Even his batting, given prominence and responsibility at No8 rather than the uninhibited freedom of batting at 11 in what seemed a lost cause, has looked way out of its depth.