Word: hopeless
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...Craig had challenged the case, it sounds like he might have had a real chance of winning at trial. But it's always virtually hopeless to plead guilty, and then say you're innocent. I think the notion of criminalizing what Craig was accused of doing [making a sexual advance to a male police officer in a bathroom] is questionable. But Craig really forfeited the right to make most arguments by pleading guilty...
...those of us who've spent a good part of our lives watching men play games, most sports films are viewed through parted fingers. While the ones about the hopeless kids' team coming good under the unlikely coach can be all right, those based in the big-time tend to send the cornball meter into meltdown. With all that striving and emoting, it's easy to see why sport lures film-makers. But sports fans get the real thing on television every week. There's also the problem of actors trying to look like athletes. And move like them...
...French presidency in May - curiously, he had made defending "the Bulgarian nurses" one of his campaign promises. Although no one in France is certain why Sarkozy took the plight of the Bulgarians so close to heart, his involvement has done wonders to unblock what long appeared to be a hopeless situation. Under the Sarko-led diplomatic push, Libya's Higher Judicial Council commuted the capital sentences to life in prison after families of victims agreed to accept around a million dollars each in compensation to be distributed by the Ghaddafi Foundation. Meanwhile, official sources say Sarkozy's team of negotiators...
...Karachi. The word "teeming" does not begin to describe this huge and jumbled urban mass, this warren of narrow traffic-clogged streets. Who is a friend? Who is an enemy? Who is corruptible, who is not? The idea of finding a kidnapped man in that environment seems to us hopeless...
...them plausible, at least in a Republican context. But in the end, all face an enormous hurdle because of their unconvincing answers to this nonscenario: We invade a country, suspecting weapons of mass destruction. But the WMD aren't there, and we get bogged down in a hopeless sectarian struggle. What...