lost cause

But today seemed like a lost cause from the start.

I started to ask more, but decided it was a lost cause.

In his mind he knew it was a lost cause.

Even most teachers have already written them off as a lost cause.

Still, he worked with them until they decided it was a lost cause.

Like everything else this season, it was a lost cause.

They get off, so police action is mostly a lost cause.

"Most would probably just write her off as a lost cause."

You may be a lost cause; but he is nearly one of us, now.

Most people apparently view the process as a lost cause.

They had just not been prepared to support a lost cause.

But a lot of good people are still defending the lost cause.

Why should we sacrifice more American lives to a lost cause?

No one wanted to die for what was so obviously a lost cause.

She also scored the third run in a lost cause.

America and Britain are a lost cause for the left.

"You can help us turn a lost cause into a victory."

I've never been able not to struggle even when I know it's a lost cause.

Despite those efforts, some critics view his work as a lost cause.

Should the human rights policy just be dumped as a lost cause?

The international campaign against land mines once seemed a lost cause.

But Jacob began to feel that his was a lost cause.

I feel this is now a lost cause for the disabled.

Some things were just obviously lost causes from the start.

The windows were a lost cause, none of them big enough to let her through.