"New York is a lost cause, " said Stephanie Steward, vice chair of the Penn College Republicans.
Another apparently lost cause, immigration reform, is unpopular with conservatives, but is supported by many businesspeople.
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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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.
The full blown Lost Cause story as it is portrayed in D.
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And inviting foreign investors to look again at Russia is not the lost cause it would have been, say, six months ago.
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.
Does this suggest that cause marketing is, well, a lost cause?
Why impoverish themselves for the lost cause of the traditional city?
It seems like dignity while traveling is a lost cause.
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Moreover, American historiography was dominated until World War II by Southern authors determined to romanticize the Lost Cause and mythologize the Confederacy's most important and formidable commander, Robert E.
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.
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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The continuing power of the Lost Cause romance can even be seen in a more recent film such as Gettysburg, which in the ending frames shows the fate of the various major characters.
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Prof Coker, author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, says the idea that consumption of alcohol is sinful is deeply embedded in the southern evangelical mind.
Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions.
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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.
In defending what might seem a lost or losing cause, I have adopted the usual conservative posture of sadness at the pace and direction of current events.
But at the moment, it looks as if Doha's cause will be lost long before it reaches the Speaker's gavel.
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The memorial, designed by sculptor Sam Holland and funded through the RNLI Heritage Trust, is the first single monument to commemorate all those who have lost their lives in the cause of saving others at sea.
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