Sentences with phrase «hopeless case in»

This is 1880 East London, where Inspector Kildare (Bill Nighy) has been dogged by rumours that he's «not the marrying kind», so he's given the most hopeless case in town: finding a ghostly serial killer who is staging increasingly elaborate murders.

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This rejection is rationalized in a variety of ways, the most common of which is expressed in the statement, «The case is hopeless.»

First, he recounts a case early in his career in which a supervisor thought the case was hopeless, but the patient's life was saved.

«19 Consider in this connection the observation of a psychiatrist that the only completely happy people are the hopeless cases who have surrendered every tension and are in complete self - satisfaction.

The experienced crisis counselor, in this case a pastoral counselor, although recognizing Charlie as a serious suicidal risk, also knew that the situation was not as hopeless as it first appeared.

Of course, if we were to enter into such a hopeless speculation, we have in Eliot's case much more to go on than his poetry and prose, much of which was never intended to be personal or confessional.

He recovered, then suffered a stroke in 2002 that debilitated him and ultimately ended a life that served as not only a reminder of the tragedy of a career cut short but also a reminder that no case is ever truly hopeless.

Score shared his middle name with the patron saint of hopeless cases, upon whom he'd already had ample occasion to call in the first 23 years of his life.

In other countries, the really hopeless cases would be counted as stillbirths.

It is very light, (I live in san francisco, so I need to push it up hills) it fits though normal sized doors and can be pushed easily with one hand, it folds up nice and small, and both sides recline fully so either child can nap in the stroller (not the case with the duo glide) Only downside is the relatively small wheels are hopeless on less than even terrain.

Coley eventually found his man, scars and all, who was free of disease and in good health — seven years after doctors considered his case hopeless.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / LeventKonuk Four years ago the Obama administration offered up $ 19 billion in stimulus funds to help get health care IT (including electronic health records, or EHRs) in the pink — or at least in the black.Better information technology throughout the health care system would save money, improve care and bring the health care industry into the 21st century, proponents argued.But, as is obvious by the continuance of paper records, isolated institutional networks and clunky interfaces, health care IT is still in critical condition.A new report, assembled by the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan research group, suggests that health care IT is not a hopeless case, however.

Is the hype legitimate, or are we talking about another case of hopeless smoke and mirrors in the world of online dating?

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The system has no time for people his age who are inept when it comes to modern technology — he holds a mouse up to a computer screen and writes his CV in longhand — and quickly brands Blake as a hopeless case.

Dramatically, the movie works in places at bringing forth a sense of helpless indignation toward a hopeless cause, though emotionally, while making a clear case, it's decidedly stilted.

Baumbach isn't the type of writer to succumb to a tidy bastard's - redemption premise, but Gerwig's presence in Greenberg goes a long way toward redeeming the movie, even if Greenberg himself is a hopeless case.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

So, when I look at hopeless cases like the «big» 3 automakers, I think that we need a new chapter in the bankruptcy code for businesses that are «too big to fail.»

FOTAS and the County go the extra mile even for the animals that seem hopeless, neglected or injured; and in virtually every case, we find a place for those animals, too.

Euthanasia is a humane course of action in cases where the prognosis is hopeless or where the continued life of the cat would be painful or undignified.

My case histories are full of these «hopeless» cases that have gone on to live happy lives in their original homes.

In many cases, it's almost hopeless to even devise a metric.

The simplistic combat comes nowhere near the tension of being surrounded by upper case «D» s and having to carefully plan your attack move by move in a near hopeless attempt to survive.

It's the story of a Jewish boy from Trieste, who had a rich father, was once manager of a knitwear factory in Jamestown, New York, and, at the age of 40, was considered by his industrialist father - in - law a «good - for - nothing — a hopeless case,» according to Cohen - Solal.

This high level of atmospheric variability means that sampling at one or two sites and then project that to the global level is a hopeless exercise — quite unlike the case with CO2, which tends to have a 100 - year half - life in the atmosphere.

If you have been hurt by someone in power, you may think your case is hopeless, but The Cochran Firm has the experience, the resources, and the will to bring low the mighty and restore justice to the wronged.

Paul McGrath QC, who has been described as «phenomenally clever man» [1] and «an expert courtroom bruiser» who «wins hopeless cases», practises primarily in the field of international commercial / chancery litigation, having an «enviable reputation in the fields of tracing claims and asset recovery» and being credited as «the brains behind a lot of the innovative ideas out there.»

The few situations in which a cost order might be put to you is if you have brought forward a case that is completely hopeless that has no chance of success whatsoever (often there might be a preliminary hearing in which it will be advised for you to drop the case by the judge but you push on regardless) or you behave badly in the way you have run your case / turned down a good settlement offer.

Paul McGrath QC, who has been described as «phenomenally clever man» [1] and «an expert courtroom bruiser» who «wins hopeless cases», practises primarily in the field of international commercial / chancery litigation, having an «enviable reputation in the fields of tracing claims and asset recovery» and being credited as «the brains behind a lot of the innovative -LSB-...]

If you have been injured by someone in power, you may think your case is hopeless, but The Cochran Firm has the will, the experience, and the resources to bring low the mighty and restore justice to the wronged.

It is important that you now appreciate, however, that things are no where as hopeless as you may have thought as our lawyers are successful in defending DWI in a much higher percentage of cases than you probably anticipate.

Mediations have a high success rate (particularly with children involved), and have found amicability in cases where both parties thought it was hopeless.

At this point in time it can usually be a hopeless case.

Lesson learned Since then, I learned to actually identify an actual weakness (in my case, it's being hopeless with Excel) and talk about the steps I took to overcome it.

Doctors who work in the BioTexCom center deal even with the most hopeless cases of infertility.

If those choices are not in harmony with the someone else's «agenda», the child may be written off as a hopeless case or passed on to another agency, the practitioner may be dismissed, or Child and Youth Care practice considered useless.

Yes, there are scoundrels out there in the real estate field; just the same as in other industries where there are those who prey upon the helpless, the hopeless, the aged, the infirm, the young who have no life experience to draw upon, and, even in some cases do bad business among their own peers.