Word: thankless
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...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...
...gets the feeling the audience roots for him only out of a sense of obligation. Warren is marginally better in a potentially interesting role that dwindles to almost nothing by the end of the film. Cristian de la Fuente, Gina Gershon, Stacy Edwards and Robert Sean Leonard are given thankless roles that are nothing but foils for the main characters...
...Tuesday night, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt learned that lesson the hard way, batting clean-up for the Democrats after the President's first (and enthusiastically received) address to Congress. It was a thankless job: After all the nearly euphoric backslapping that met the President's speech, it fell to the Democrats to make a case for boring old frugality...