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Topics hopeless topics
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The situation is hopeless.
It's not hopeless.
You are hopeless.
You really are hopeless.
I'm hopeless at ironing so I buy permanent press clothes.
The housing situation seemed quite hopeless.
By the way, my English is absolutely hopeless.
He's a hopeless case.
The situation seems hopeless.
We've slid into an almost hopeless situation.
Movie subtitles
In the convents during the Middle Ages, fear of the Devil escalated into an almost hopeless despair.
Hopeless.
It's hopeless.
Kringelein, you old robber, you're hopeless.
It's hopeless. There's no turning back.
Dear child, be brave no matter how hopeless it all seems.
I suppose of all the requests that have ever been made. yours is the most hopeless.
Hortense, it's hopeless.
It's all so hopeless.
We think it's quite hopeless.
I'm as hopeless as that.
Why involve Zola in this hopeless mess?
They're hopeless.
It's hopeless for all of us.
Then our case is hopeless.
It is by no means hopeless.
Julia was a girl and it seemed hopeless.
Because it seems so hopeless, is that it?
You now unquestioningly know you're a hopeless, crazy good-for-nothing. A human shipwreck.
Still a hopeless jumble.
We both know it's hopeless.
Ah, does he think it is hopeless?
The sort of hopeless situation that we are in?
But our marriage is hopeless. We started all wrong.
A rotten, hopeless marriage and find your married to a dirty little.
Really, Jane dear, you're quite hopeless.
It is useless and hopeless to talk to such people.
You're hopeless.
We both work so hard, but it's hopeless.
I'm a hopeless invalid.
They're pretty hopeless.
Looks pretty hopeless.
It's hopeless, Figaro.
It's hopeless, Pinocchio.
News and current affairs
Yet, despite all the difficulties, the situation in Afghanistan, unlike that in Iraq, is not hopeless.
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.
Foreign observers are prone to associate the Bing Dian incident with other recent crackdowns on China's mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.
This is a hopeless strategy, because Hamas would boycott early elections, and even if their outcome would result in Hamas's exclusion from the government, no peace agreement would hold without Hamas support.
But North Korea's latest actions are making much of Asia hopeless.
This means that getting Chinese households to spend more is not a hopeless mission.
If economic solutions aren't found, eventually these regions' conflicts will destabilize Europe, as millions more desperate, hopeless people eventually become radicalized and blame the West for their misery.
But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.
Finally, things are not as hopeless for the Palestinians as they may seem.
The situation is far from hopeless.
Japan's crisis may look hopeless, but don't forget that this is not the first time Japan has faced such a challenge.
The gaps between the cosmopolitan oil-sheiks and the disaffected, disenfranchised, and nearly hopeless remainder of the population widened.
Violence arises when there is hope rather than when things are hopeless.
That route now looks hopeless.
European countries have become so interconnected that isolated national measures on issues like financial-market regulation are hopeless.
The EU is hopeless at burden sharing.
The conditions in Greece are now hopeless, and are likely to lead to further defaults and a withdrawal from the eurozone.
Yet the LDP's position is not hopeless, because the public remains highly skeptical that the amateurish DPJ can control the bureaucracy, either.
Presumably, our attempt at resurrecting it was pathetic and hopeless.
Hopeless people do not vote.
Israel and Palestine have become, he said, the hopeless and bloody prism through which American diplomacy often seems to see the world.
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.
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.
An independent Somaliland could be a force for stability and good governance in an otherwise hopeless region.