Indeed, it is hopeless.

Both positions are hopelessly buried in intellectual and moral fog.

Europeans like to sneer at American political jamborees as being hopelessly vulgar.

Four helicopters were seen flying out with some of the special forces who were sent on what has proved to be a wild goose chase.

But the political opposition to Lukashenko is hopelessly divided, plagued by infighting, and incapable of mounting any serious challenge to his rule.

An independent Somaliland could be a force for stability and good governance in an otherwise hopeless region.

We have experienced many anxious moments when it seemed that the fragile understanding between the parties had been hopelessly destroyed.

The conditions in Greece are now hopeless, and are likely to lead to further defaults and a withdrawal from the eurozone.

The sums required from the international financial institutions were so large that it began to be possible for currency speculators to envisage circumstances in which there would be no help.

By failing to make any progress beyond keeping the talks alive, the Cancún summit has given the impression that nothing is happening, and that the situation is hopeless.

At the other end of the spectrum are technocratic super defenders of regulatory bodies who believe that politicians and electorates are hopelessly confused, uneducated, and often corrupt.

By putting liberal interventionism at the heart of his foreign policy, Tony Blair has made it radioactive a political non starter for at least a generation.

Consider, first, the lofty market capitalization of Apple and other tech companies, which belies the depiction of US financial markets as hopelessly short term oriented.

So they found this cagoots guy, a 39 year old man who was really hopelessly schizophrenic, who was known, had been known for months, to be literally defecating on himself, talking nothing that made any sense, and they brought him into the hospital.

Foreign observers are prone to associate theBing Dianincident with other recent crackdowns on China s mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.

Not only has Bush destroyed Iran s most formidable enemy and bogged down US troops in a hopeless cause he also has enriched energy abundant Iran and Russia by pursuing a war that has dramatically raised energy prices.

The lesson of the past 15 years is that defeating world poverty is not a hopeless cause. In the years to come, the SDGs can move the world further toward success especially if these new goals are helped by a rigorous effort to strengthen governments ability to achieve them.

It is in Pakistan s capital that a regional solution will have to be negotiated, and the conditions for success are by no means hopeless, though it involves the far more complicated and rarely mentioned issue of Indian Pakistani relations.

Many are beginning to surmise that the Aquino regime is not all convinced that the Sabah claim has merit and his description of it as a hopeless cause is not just a slip of the tongue indicating ignorance or incompetence as Sultan Jamalul Kiram III suspects, but his regime s point of view and even policy on the matter.