Sentences with phrase «no hopers»

Waits populates his songs with a swirling broth of vagrants and bohemians; the losers and the no - hopers, the lovelorn and world - weary, the deadbeats at dead ends.

I've been a season ticket holder for nearly 40 years, but enough is enough, I have better things to spend thousands of pounds on than watching this bunch of no - hopers.

The Dortmund game showed clearly why we are no hopers with a zero percent chance of winning the Champions League, if we can't beat Dortmund can we beat Bayern, Madrid or Barca??

Malouda was one of the weekend's star men, and opened the scoring for Les Grenats against Racing Club de Lens with a delightful volley in their «Battle of the no - hopers» at the foot of the Ligue 1 table.

The club are spending no more money this window - unless an unknown no hoper, Sanogo style, from the French lower division comes for loose change — and this Scrooge club are simply trying to recoup the Lacazette fee from existing deadwood, reduce the wagebill and con us poor mug fans once again with lies about this or that big player being on the radar, when the truth is — as we cynics know very well, who have learned better from bitter experiience of the clubs constant lies — that no one of note is coming in and this dishonourable, shifty club continue to drag our former great name in the mud, with their corrupt misrunning of our once great and glorious club.

He would not waste regular wages keeping no hopers around uselessly, like Elneny, Iwobi, Welbeck, Bellerin, Chambers, Xhaka etc. etc..

The surprise in these odds is that both fighters are 0 - 1 no - hopers who don't deserve to be in the octagon.

They have come along way from the mid-table no hopers that they were for the first decade of the Premier League.

The Browns, who had lost six straight playoff games dating back to 1970, had been goners, no - hopers, when they took possession of the ball on their own 32 with 4:08 left in regulation.

Many of the shots last night should not have counted as shots since they were no - hopers from outside the box or no - hopers that were always going to get blocked.

The Dutchman was an absolute revelation in his short time at the Camp Nou in 2004, where he helped transform the side from mid-table no hopers into runners up behind Valencia.

Only 3 or 4 teams each year who could win it, 12 or 13 absolute no hopers, straight knock - out stretched out over 2 legs so no single leg FA cup type shock results, total of 8 games to get to the final, sometimes only 6 with byes.

Podolski should be fuming as when he plays, he's played out of position and to add insult to injury he see's no hopers like Sanogo getting ahead of him.

Our team is now rated by the majority of commentators as a bunch of» No - hopers» under Mr Wenger?

Most of the ESPN cards are prospect fights where they are just fighting no hopers but showtime has been really evenly matched.

But, after the Reds finished seventh, sixth, eighth and seventh in the past four campaigns, just how has Mr Rodgers transformed a team of upper - midtable no - hopers into fearsome title favourites?

Four home ties against essentially no hopers Now with only rubbish left the FA cup is Arsenals to lose.

Not bad for a bunch of no - hopers eh?

The teams he's been fielding have been pretty close to full strength... You think our best players would want to hang around with Wenger saying «the CL's a no hoper this season boys, go out there and lose?»

Flop of the Year: Plenty of runners here with the likes of the departed Andre Ayew, Jose Fonte and Sam Byram but there can only be one winner of this award so please step forward Mr Joe Hart — perhaps the biggest no hoper at # 110k a week since Avram Grant!

Arsenal have about much hope of getting Suarez as Real Sociedad does, both fourth place no hopers.

A BRM mechanic gives his inside account of how the team went from no - hopers to world champions — and back again.

One that Wolves» best hope of scoring is Ebanks - Blake, and two that they do actually appear no - hoper's if they're relying on Ebanks - Blake.

If Mick McCarthy heard anyone claim his team were no - hoper's heading into any fixture, he'd... well, I wouldn't like to guess what he would do, probably force the doubter to watch forward - lumberjack Ebanks - Blake train.

Clough took Nottingham Forest from «no hopers to European Champions» (Murphy, The Guardian, 1993).

While on paper Blackpool cut the shape of no hoper's, their season to date would suggest they're nothing but.

«Daydream Believers is for all of the dreamers and wonderers, wanderers and hopers... and the grownups who love them.

The Labour leader has gone from no hoper to the most likely future prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

When Jeremy Corbyn threw his hat into the ring he was presented as a joke candidate, a reluctant challenger or Trotskyite no - hoper.

It may just be grief - in - denial, but ex-MPs and activists have persuaded themselves that all over England voters who elected a bunch of no - hoper Tory candidates on 7 May are already suffering what Nick Clegg (not too repentant on Monday) calls «buyer's remorse».

Widely written - off by the political commentariat as a no - hoper when Theresa May called the snap election, he is now a prime minister in waiting, leader of the most popular party in Britain facing a weak and unstable government.

A no - hoper really.

They are desperate to keep the no hoper in place.

«All these patients were considered no - hopers beforehand,» says Fadlo Khuri, head of the team that developed the treatment.

They believed it was their manifest destiny, so these hopers and wishers took off for the West.

Suburban no - hoper Tommy Basilio (Buscemi) is having a bad week.

This inventive pic version of U.K. author Irvine Welsh's cult 1993 novel, set among a group of self - destructive no - hopers and junkies in Edinburgh's underbelly,

And you can't blame Joe Public for that — spending 10 minutes with this sour group of no - hoper dope growers, dysfunctional siblings and abusive parents would be tough; 100 minutes is a real struggle.

Charlotte Gainsbourg hasn't a chance of a nod for «Antichrist,» but she's a more notable no - hoper than Aghdashloo or Weisz.

A team of no - hopers stuck far from Paris have their first job offer in a long time: to pilot truckloads of rotted, unstable nitroglycerin over bad roads.

Through the microscopic realism of its portrait of three American no - hopers, played here by a stellar trio of John Goodman, Damian Lewis and Tom Sturridge, it reverberates with political and ethical possibilities.

The film opens in 1848, with a young Emily (played by Emma Bell) being expelled from Mount Holyoke College, where her refusal to submit herself to God in the expected manner has earned her the label of «no - hoper.»

RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS (Grade: B): Based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the film follows a gifted teen, Bev (Drew Barrymore), whose high aspirations are sidelined when she becomes pregnant by a well - intentioned no - hoper (Steve Zahn).

Watching these no - hopers take on a well - oiled political machine is pretty inspirational, especially when the characters have so much raw charm.

As you should all know by now, the film sees Chris Evans play weedy but patriotic Steve Rogers circa World War II, an army no - hoper transformed into a super-soldier by Erskine's revolutionary super-soldier serum.

The film is as strange, in its way, as its lead character's inimitable way with words: Structurally it resembles a straightforward biopic, following Dickinson — played by Emma Bell in the early scenes and a marvelous, moving Cynthia Nixon for the rest — from her brief tenure as a defiant Mount Holyoke student («a no - hoper» says her scold of a headmistress) through her sequestered life, and eventual kidney - related death, at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

It's a no - hoper's cri de coeur, avoiding the prevalent clichés of the rehab genre.

How did we go from no - hopers at 50 to comfortably retired just a few years later?

Barring a publicity spike or two (priming for a placing), I suspect a full 90 - 95 % price decline is needed to really suck in a fresh batch of no - hopers for the next dead cat bounce.

And perhaps it even looked technically cheap — but I suspect that sorry history of declining AUM, stagnant revenue & never - ending losses persuaded most investors to quickly tag it as a no - hoper & move on.