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Examples of lost cause


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Prison reform was not a lostcause, but the achievement of it by means of any heavy-handed centralizing measure was.
Langley is becoming a lostcause, a vandalised ghetto of sickness and despair.
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Parliament would clearly be embarking on a lostcause.
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Louise was always looking for a lostcause to fight for, and the gang made fun of her for it.
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Mason talked about this but said that they were fighting for a lostcause, and that the station was not changing back.
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Biddle finally resumed his pre-contraction policies and by the close of 1834, all recharter efforts were abandoned as a lostcause.
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Studnicka came from the bullpen for long relief in a lostcause.
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Betty asks if she has to die for a lostcause, would he honor her, too?
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Bart explained he had all-summer detention, and felt he was a lostcause because no one believed in him.
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Neuborne has been called a defender of lost causes.
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Curran, who had a passion for lost causes, represented the priest and won over the jury by setting aside the issue of religion.
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A portable implementation for call/cc using the natural mapping is a lostcause.
It accepts that some formulations of the doctrine are a lostcause.
Those who try to resist going into such villages are also fighting a lostcause.
Or why they so strongly imply that any presumption of long-term action for a better world is likely to be a lostcause?
These results demonstrate that while the urban areas presented more of a challenge for the governing party, they were by no means a lostcause.
I am afraid that is a lostcause.
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One vociferous defence of a lostcause was the exception.
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I am convinced that they are in some degree defending a lostcause.
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Everybody who heard him will admire the gallantry and courage with which he pursues his lonely battle for a lostcause.
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It also means that when the committee voted by a majority of one to reject the common position, it was already fighting a lostcause.
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I think that it is a sign that we are not entirely a lostcause.
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He said rather apologetically that he was pleading a lostcause.
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I think my noble friend may be fighting in a good cause, but so far as this question is concerned it is a lostcause.
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Education without the good will and expertise of the teaching profession is a lostcause.
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Such people show enormous courage, and for that reason they attract every pressure group and lostcause.
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If we have fought for a lostcause, that cause has not been lost through any fault of our own.
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Finally, the battle against resistant bacteria is not a lostcause.
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He seems to support almost any lostcause.
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To many of this persuasion reform of the criminal is a lostcause.
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There are some who have regarded that establishment as a lostcause for a long time now.
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It is probably too late, and perhaps was always a lostcause, to think that you could do much about it by controlling antibiotics.
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He is wrong to describe it as a lostcause.
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In short, they are a lostcause.
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They are a lostcause.
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It is not a lostcause.
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This is not a lostcause.
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His regiment fought for 9 weeks and suffered in a lostcause.
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The merchant realises it was a lostcause, for he is still as poor as he was when he left, and returns.
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By the close of 1834, recharter was a lostcause.
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If this is done, that suit becomes a lostcause.
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He knew a lostcause when he saw one and gave up an important branch of the federation rather than risk the whole organization.
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Fighting and perhaps dying for a lostcause was discouraging.
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Lostcause she helps her best friend, who lives nearby.
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Unlike their left wing equivalents they emphasised personal qualities like spontaneity and willingness to fight, even in a lostcause, over political objectives.
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Yet he is recruiting them to what she believes is a lostcause.
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It is a literature of great creativity and irony, a record of the lostcause and expectations of a colonial power.
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Even most teachers have already written them off as a lostcause.
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She also scored the third run in a lostcause.
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Today he is widely remembered for his pursuit of the lostcause of temperance reform, when temperance was only one strand of a very complex set of ideas he espoused.
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The local commander realized the struggle was futile and was unwilling to waste troops in the lostcause, and thus asked and received permission to withdraw.
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His debut was for a lostcause.
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I have regretfully put it down as one of the great lost causes of history.
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He chases a lot of lost causes and is very important for us.
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The champion of lost causes, his attitude, his policy, and even his virtues became increasingly inappropriate.
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He showed signs he was full of energy, chasing lost causes and what he lacked in skill he made up for with his effort.
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Some thought he defended too many lost causes.
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He was famous for his innovative defenses and his propensity for handling lost causes.
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