Would it be a forlorn hope to expect foreign governments to play their part?

ECONOMIST: Letters

The call by a former Tory heavyweight for Britain to leave the EU has made that a forlorn hope.

BBC: Lawson says the unsayable

It will, again, at the request of the Nepali government, be extended for six months, in the forlorn hope that the deadlock can be broken.

ECONOMIST: Nepal and the United Nations

Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous "he said, she said" political debate.

BBC: Flooding in York

Few doubted that such across-the-board tax-rate increases would further depress the economy, so Republicans gave the president his more-modest requested tax increases in the forlorn hope that the electorate would exhibit the Wisdom of Solomon in their judgment of the accord.

FORBES: Republicans must mark their budget territory

But this hope is forlorn, and in fact damaging.

ECONOMIST: The political mincing-machine

Repeal of FATCA probably is NOT any more possible than the Repeal of Obamacare, but it can be modified to be less destructive, and there in lies some hope, however forlorn it may be.

FORBES: FATCA Makes Foreign Banks Report Americans

So Barack Obama was right, after the June election when the protests were still young, to step cautiously into Iran's argument, in the hope forlorn, as it turned out that his conciliatory hand might soften the regime towards both its own people and its supposed adversaries abroad.

ECONOMIST: Iran in turmoil

But since Christmas this hope has begun to look more forlorn.

ECONOMIST: Why Paddy will miss Peter most

Although some of the nuclear plants will be put back on line, it seems that the hope that nuclear energy would offer a measure of energy independence in the long term seems forlorn.

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