Sentences with phrase «lost cause when»

If nothing else, I recognize a lost cause when I see one.
I figured her a lost cause when she started popping out babies with her geriatric husband, Michael Douglas.
But that's not to say Facebook is a completely lost cause when it comes to online dating.
An adult recognizes a lost cause when they see it... and cuts his / her losses.
It can be disheartening for parents when children resist or struggle longer than others, but no baby is a lost cause when it comes to sleep.

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Hassabis said the DeepMind team will analyse the loss when they return to the UK to figure out which problem caused the program to lose.
When the buyer defaulted, she nearly lost her business, and the experience caused her to reevaluate her entrepreneurial ambitions.
This causes some «squirminess» when leaders lose ground, Erickson says.
But when anger causes us to lose control and act irrationally, we get into trouble.
It's a total scam and journalists like you are promoting it and stupid people will lose a lot of money and you will talk about how Wall Street scammed them when its actually the press causing it.
A common mistake made when people talk about a product they are very familiar with is to speak in a monotone - causing the other person to quickly lose interest in your presentation.
Lesson 3: Duration and Interest Rate Risk — Since interest rates affect bond prices, one of the biggest risks when investing in bonds is that interest rates will move higher, causing the value of your bonds to lose value.
Nearly 25 years after losing his first child, Neville Lawrence, 76, said the decision was the hardest he has ever made, and that he struggles to put into words the devastation caused to his family when his son was killed.
The Republicans lost me a LONG time ago when they went off the deep end with religious guilt And I can't be a Democrat either cause some ideas are cuse too left for my comfort.
When it was suggested whether hardship in her life might cause her to lose her faith, Mrs May answered: «No, because, it's difficult to explain in simple words but actually the faith was there and did provide support for me through those difficult times.»
I'm nice to anyone who shows me the same respect and if religion never come up, no problem, but when it does and I get some type of zealot or another trying to preach I polietly excuse myself, and write that person off as a lost cause and remember to aviod them in the future.
I thought it somewhat ironic that when people at his job threatened his employment, it was «persecution» and «proof» that he was doing the right thing, but he felt no qualms whatsoever for trying to cause me to lose my job.
In 2004 Chalke's now infamous book The Lost Message of Jesus, co-authored with Alan Mann, caused huge controversy in evangelical circles when he compared God's punishment of Jesus on the cross for our sin to «cosmic child abuse».
Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).
In fact, when the process began that caused me to lose my faith, I was at the height of my belief.
Bruno, it is true, lost his life in the conflict, but at a time when thousands were martyred or killed in religious wars for either the Catholic or Protestant cause, this was negligible in comparison.
The second area of confusion that causes people to think they can lose their «salvation» is when they equate the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven with «heaven» or with eternal life.
The first time Prozac lost its magic for her, Slater wrote: «Prozac had betrayed me, but not before its belief system had leached to the very root of me, the belief that, when all is said and done, we are beyond the grace of stories, that only chemicals can cause hurt, and thus only chemicals can cure.»
It was a hoax, of course, and when Sokol publicly revealed the fact it caused quite a sensation, heaping embarrassment upon the editors and their academic colleagues who had long since lost the capacity to discern the difference between rational discourse and their trendy gibberish.
We fail in our responsibility to history when we do not permit ourselves to see Civil War memorials from a Romantic point of view, and when we fail to recognize the phrase «lost cause» as a shorthand for a morally complex, tragic understanding of the South's defeat.
But what happens when this heavenly world is caused bit by bit to disintegrate and lose its reality?
When Sam Houston advised Texans not to join the Confederacy, which was a losing cause, Texans threw him out of office.
Even when their addiction is to a good cause, a good organization or a worthy promise, addicts lose touch with their spirituality and their relationship to God; the addiction takes over their life, their relationships and their being.
He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.
Sin loses all its power when we realize that sin will not cause God to love us any less.
Ironically, when the church permitted itself to be coopted by Constantine, along with gaining an increase in worldly power and security it lost much of its capacity to cause upheaval.
at one point I realized that my calling is to have faith like John the Baptist or the virgin Mary, to believe in God in a way that would cause every religious person to reject me as a lost cause for the rest of my life, for them to speculate and gossip about my breakdown or my backsliding, and to never defend myself because i am right where I should be and when you are right where you should be, you do nt defend yourself.....
When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory.
Most shoppers stayed away from the added services, and the distraction they caused for store employees when cleaning was lost or a bill payment wrongly credited put the primary business on the back burner.
I «am looking for a recipe that is organic on making home made cinnamon rolls that someone may have in their grandmas old books that will take 2 days to make, they can be organic or not, I can change that all the ingredients to organic myself I say 2 days cause it takes that long for the raising n stuff I had 1, n when I moved it got lost or through away, these where very hugh, n took up to 2 cookie sheet pans or 2 9x13 pans n all I remember is it was a very very long recipe n it calls for white flour n wheat flour n with all the prepairing n getting it ready n raising n the finely cooking took 2 days like i said can anybody out their help me with this.
People looking to lose weight often eat Chia seeds, because research suggests that when this gel is formed in the stomach, it causes the body to absorb calories more slowly and makes people feel fuller faster.
My doctor told me welcome to the club put me on Avandia and met formin and told me that I would most probably need to take insulin down the road.Also put me on 2 meds for blood pressure.Now don't get me wrong when I say I ate carbs I ate a lot of nonfiber carbs mostly all junk food.I put myself in that position.I weighed 330 lbs and smoked 3 packs of cigs a day.Today I am a 54 year old male weigh 182 am 6foot 1 inch.I lost most of the weight before I learned of a keto diet.I was diagnosed with a fatal autoimmune liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis.The body attacks the bile ducts of the liver eventually plugging up the bile ducts and causes total liver failure.Most people live 10 years after being diagnosed.I was diagnosed in nov of 2010.
The French driver was mid-way through his qualifying run on Saturday when a small slide through Turn 2 caused him to lose control and smash into the barrier.
Bolasie, demonstrating the marvellous marriage of strength and speed that has made him one of the more sought - after players in the Premier League, refused to give up the chase when a cause was seemingly lost.
Don't get me wrong no one celebrated more when Luke lost to Bisping but there's no way he fights luke again cause then he can't brag about koing Luke anymore.
Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.
This season we needed pace upfront and someone to drive forward, when Theo and Ramsey both went out injured we lost a LOT in our attacking movements, that needed to be sorted... afterall our defense last year was fantastic apart from the few cave ins we caused ourselves.
While I don't think their performance actually merited a draw, it was reassuring to see the team in the game and fighting for one at the end when they could as easily just have given it up as a lost cause.
@RSH what I was trying to say is that it takes more than world class players to win you the league.In many instances the mentality factor far outweighs the quality when the team is playing on the Wenger.With Wenger I don't see us having a strong mentality.We might have even lost the battle before it is fought.Trust me there's a higher chance w» ell not win the EPL if even Wenger made all the right signings.You know why?It's not because of the so called quality of other teams but we will be the cause of our own downfall this season again.
The Gunners have lost plenty of stars to the Catalan club and the fact that Bellerin is from there and spent many years at their La Masia academy before coming to finish his development in the Arsenal academy gave us extra cause for concern when Barca started to mention Bellerin as they began to look for a long term replacement for the Brazil international Dani Alves.
A time when teams dread coming the emirates knowing it's a lost cause while standing in the tunnel.
When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....
The Canadian racer caused a red flag in second F1 practice when he lost the rear of his car at the top of the hill through Massenet and hit the barriers, his car coming to rest at Casino Square.
Paffett was battling Jamie Green on the quick run down to the hairpin when they clashed wheels, unsettling his Mercedes, causing him to lose control and hit the wall heavily.
Arsene Wenger has already had to cope with more than his fair share of injury and fitness problems in the Arsenal squad this season and once again at the weekend it nearly caused the Gunners a potentially fatal blow to our Premier League title hopes when we lost first Gabriel and then Laurent Koscielny.
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