Holder has spent the past year tackling the once hopeless task of making redistricting sexy. (democraticredistricting.com)
But they face an almost hopeless task, in that the language of mental health and legal rights obscures the discourse by presuming a world in which people's behavior is guided only by the rules of law and medicine. (firstthings.com)
It is not too much to say that if this handful of devoted and practical men had not faced and carried through their almost hopeless task the world would never have seen three of the most potent factors in all subsequent history (potent whether for good or ill): international Judaism, the Christian Church, and Islam. (religion-online.org)