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314 examples of Hopeless in a sentence

The minor has to be “in a hopeless medical situation of constant and unbearable suffering that cannot be eased and which will cause death in the short term.”
The EU is hopeless at burden sharing.
An independent Somaliland could be a force for stability and good governance in an otherwise hopeless region.
Presumably, our attempt at resurrecting it was pathetic and hopeless.
But that was hopeless.
Finally, things are not as hopeless for the Palestinians as they may seem.
Later in the 1970’s, European monetary relations were hopeless when France, Germany, and Britain tried to talk about them, but were straightened out when only France and Germany took part.
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.
This means that getting Chinese households to spend more is not a hopeless mission.
While Johnson has some rhetorical skill – which he has been using with increasing vigor to whip up support for a “hard Brexit” – the general view is that he was a hopeless diplomat, always preferring a cheap joke to a serious brief.
Trump attracted the support of the enraged and frustrated, and Palestinians feel even angrier and more hopeless than the working-class white Americans who supported him.
Instead, the most important regional players – Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – have all been vying for influence in the war in Syria, and collectively sliding toward a hopeless conflict for mastery of the entire region.
Moreover, we have come to believe that most diseases, including previously hopeless conditions, can be prevented, cured, ameliorated, or controlled by scientific medicine, and that even those patients unlikely to benefit have a right to medical care.
Before the euro, a country facing a public-finance crisis would have been forced into a predictable, hopeless sequence: devaluation of its currency, followed by inflation, which alleviated the public-debt burden.
So the truth must lie elsewhere: the French are not hopeless about politics; they are simply waiting for a genuine leader.
But it is two other obstacles that render CCBT hopeless.
Nonetheless, the situation is not entirely hopeless.
But the outlook is far from hopeless; the revival of a threat from Russia may reverse the prevailing trend toward European disintegration.
For starters, Kennan claimed that the particular combination of “nature and human behavior” in Latin America had produced a uniquely “unhappy and hopeless background for the conduct of human life.”
They are internally divided between Fatah and Hamas, under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, isolated from the outside world in Gaza, hopeless in the region’s refugee camps, and rebuffed by their Arab neighbors.
While the situation in the Middle East currently looks hopeless, a new attempt that focuses on the essential points, not on minor ones, deserves support.
That is still not good enough, but these figures make training and job creation schemes realistic instead of hopeless.
And, although many things in the Middle East are in short supply, there is no dearth of hopeless young people, whose numbers will continue to grow in the coming years.
But the task is not hopeless, as the run-up to the Olympics has shown.
The conditions in Greece are now hopeless, and are likely to lead to further defaults and a withdrawal from the eurozone.
But I don’t think the situation is hopeless.
So, is the idea that India’s economy could overtake China’s hopeless romanticism?
By this standard, President Barack Obama should now be in a hopeless situation.
And, along with courageous political leadership, it has enabled the state to escape from a seemingly hopeless fiscal crisis.
It avoids the hopeless task of trying to value millions of complex mortgages and the even more complex financial products in which they are embedded, and it deals with the “lemons” problem – the government gets stuck with the worst or most overpriced assets.
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