Regardless of how the war was becoming hopeless, the circle around the Emperor held fast and refused to open negotiations.

In just a few brief seconds, his situation had become doubly hopeless.

The situation on the ground was also becoming hopeless.

"People have become hopeless and they don't want to listen to any kind of preaching any more," he said.

My people seldom fall apart during an operation, not even if things have become hopeless.

To those on board Sea Sprite, the cause was becoming more hopeless with each passing second.

One, she is perhaps still young enough not to have become hopeless.

He would not give up just because the game had become hopeless.

Indeed I must have realized already some time ago that my escape had become hopeless.

The situation has now become hopeless, and may give rise to mass slaughter.