"New York is a lost cause, " said Stephanie Steward, vice chair of the Penn College Republicans.
To conduct political revenge so blatantly through the courts was, McCarthy was advised, a lost cause.
Son knows that at this point boosting Softbank's market value in Japan is probably a lost cause.
Getting my bag and my guitar was a lost cause, and I had no place to sleep.
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Others see the White House as a lost cause, whereas liberal Democrats, including Jewish ones, seem increasingly unfriendly.
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Maybe I had "Online Deal Freeloader" written all over my face and he knew I was a lost cause.
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By the third deal they are either regular customers or a lost cause.
Earlier Thursday, Senate and House leaders warned Bush that the UAE deal was a lost cause, GOP sources said.
By now most observers believe that getting weapons inspectors back into the country, after their two years' exile, is a lost cause.
Certainly the new draft European Union constitution, voted down twice in three days in France and the Netherlands, is a lost cause.
When almost everyone had written off the Afghans as a lost cause, she saw potential for greatness in the most unlikely characters.
Insisting on even these minimum conditions may look like a lost cause.
Everyone not least of all, the Democrats who had gathered to choose Johnson's successor knew the conflict was a lost cause.
Then there is Kazakhstan, a vast, energy-rich country where democracy is by no means a lost cause, but which has suffered some serious setbacks recently.
Does this suggest that cause marketing is, well, a lost cause?
It seems like dignity while traveling is a lost cause.
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And while Chicago might be a lost cause for them, Republicans would do well to target their message at the Cook County suburbs, where most statewide elections are won and lost.
Venezuela, wallowing in anti-American populism, is a lost cause.
Since the popular Greenwood had been expected to run, Democrats all but conceded the seat, not expending as much energy in finding a candidate for a race they considered a lost cause.
Prop. 37 clearly does not, and if it were approved by the voters, the state would need to spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars defending a lost cause in the federal courts.
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Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions.
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The UN is a lost cause and under US President Barack Obama, America has been moving swiftly in the direction of Europe in accepting the authority of the UN as the linchpin of a morally-relativist, post-nationalist, philo-Islamic international system.
The home defenders watched motionless as they expected the ball to loop out of play, but Ward showed his willingness to chase a lost cause for a second time and hooked the ball from the byline into the six yard box.
However, the commentator says that this time, his party, the Il Popolo della Liberta (PdL) or The People of Freedom, will be less likely to spring to his defence, as it is now beginning to see Mr Berlusconi's war against the judiciary as a lost cause.
Some gay activists, assuming he was a lost cause, had taken to picketing outside of his house and screaming that he was gay an approach that seemed only to harden his opposition to their agenda. (Mr. Kruger has said he is not gay.) But unbeknown to all but a few people, Mr. Kruger desperately wanted to change his vote.
"Nothing in Iraq seemed to be going well, and there was this need to find somebody who could demonstrate that it was not a completely lost cause, " says Bacevich.
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