Sentences with phrase «hopeless task»

Holder has spent the past year tackling the once hopeless task of making redistricting sexy.

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.

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.

Without millions of dollars of market research, advertising, and promotion, this can be a hopeless task.

It is a hopeless task.

We hear so much, especially in the New Testament, of the inexhaustible riches and the unsearchable nature of the religious or mythical revelation, and that makes us ask whether it is not a hopeless task to try to define it in the concepts of science, which after all are only human.

Nevertheless, it is, I believe, by no means a hopeless task to recover from the Pauline epistles some indication at least of the character and content of Paul's preaching, and not only of his distinctive preaching, but of what he preached in common with other Christian missionaries.

The forces of reaction to which Humboldt had to yield, resigning the hopeless task of liberalizing the Prussian constitution, had been in the ascendancy since the Prussian ruler had begun to prefer Metternich's advice to that of his own liberal advisers.

Pinning down science fiction in a new exhibition may be a hopeless task.

Perhaps pinning down science fiction's form and purpose is a hopeless task, and instead this bright cacophony of familiar faces and radical visions is the best expression of its value.

Does dating seem like a hopeless task for you?

Knowing it's a hopeless task, the sheriff and the mayor (Jonathan Pryce) offer up two people as sacrifices.

Efficient markets mean that there's no such thing as a free lunch, especially on Wall Street: if financial market prices fully incorporate all relevant information already, trying to beat the market is a hopeless task.

He laughed at her, telling her that he felt this was a hopeless task.

Assassin's Creed Origins breathes a new, much - needed lease of life into the Assassin's Creed franchise and having to backtrack to Rogue after indulging in such a magnificent advancement in the series at times felt like a hopeless task.

Aiming is fluid and sticking to your target during a dog fight doesn't feel like a hopeless task.

It sometimes seems like a hopeless task to put a stop to these, as the perpetrators are difficult to track and law enforcement's time and resources are too limited to do much about it.

After interviewing all of the partners and many senior associates, I told the management committee it was a hopeless task, that it should stop wasting time and money trying.