Word: thankless
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...Thankless Task?...
...It’s a thankless task,” says Mason Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff...
...agreeing while challenging the plan's specifics, Arafat has created a huge headache for the Tenet. After all, he has two parties somewhat reluctantly accepting a deal and sure to offer radically different interpretations of its requirements. Its implementation will require an active, thankless and quite possibly even futile refereeing effort on the part of the U.S. - exactly the scenario the Bush administration had hoped to avoid when it came into office vowing not to repeat Bill Clinton's mistakes and insisting that the U.S. could not impose peace when the parties were unwilling. The Middle East is seldom that...
Left to their own devices, Israelis and Palestinians appear to be unable to end the violence that continues to rage in the West Bank and Gaza. Which means that as long as the U.S. resists playing the thankless - and ill-starred - role of referee, there are slim grounds for optimism over the prospects for a cease-fire, let alone a peace agreement...
...result, most of our school’s athletes have their noteworthy efforts go largely unheralded. Playing a sport here is often a thankless task...