Could it be that it is no longer cool for men to be hopeless?
"Overestimates of the number of species on Earth are self-defeating because they can make attempts to discover and conserve biodiversity appear to be hopeless, " said Dr Costello.
In the most likely scenario Mr Brown will take his leave relatively swiftly, after recognising that any efforts to prop himself up with Lib Dem support are likely to be hopeless.
So could this good tree gone bad be doomed to a hopeless place?
In such places, the least hopeless course may be to ensure as wide a measure of democracy as possible at the lowest local level (for instance, in last weekend's Bosnian town elections, whose results are not yet clear).
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton filled the conference hall to appeal for private-sector investment to rebuild the shattered island, pointing the success of Rwanda in quadrupling its per capita GDP in the decade after being ravaged by war as an example of how a seemingly hopeless economy could be changed for the better.
For my part, this is a hopeless proposal and should be abandoned forthwith.
We do not want to encourage anyone to be a hero, championing potentially hopeless causes and angering those around them, without being fully aware of the dangers.
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Mr Simon pointed out that India, once seen by Malthusians as a hopeless case, fated to be increasingly hungry, could now feed itself.
The inner workings of the brain are so opaque that "we don't even have good theories for what might be going on" when people become hopeless or suicidal, Deisseroth says.
It was probably always hopeless to expect something that could be recited in schools, however.
To say that this is a hopeless task and that athletes should be allowed to take drugs or not as they wish is defeatist.
Caplan said while he doesn't know what happened at Memorial he believes doctors can be driven to kill but only under the extreme stress of a hopeless situation.
Widmerpool is always on the make, always pretending to be sympathetic to the latest political fad, the antithesis to the hopeless, if charming, losers of the upper class.
But economic prospects for many people will be pinched, possibly for years to come, and some will feel hopeless of ever finding a better life.
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Christoulas's death can be added to an increasing number of suicides in Greece, as more people feel hopeless amid the worst economic crisis in the country's recent history: according to the health ministry data, the suicide rate jumped about 40% in the first five months of 2011 compared with a year earlier.
There can be no better metaphor for depression than Frodo walking through ashen heaps carrying a heavy burden on an apparently hopeless quest.
Navigating the conditions we find ourselves in can be unpleasant at best, and at worst, it can cause one to feel anxious, depressed, hopeless, fearful, and ineffectual.
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"The Camp 020 interrogators maintain that Evensen ought not to be judged by any ordinary standards as it is obvious that his mental powers are sub-normal, his memory hopeless and his mind an inchoate jumble, " said the final report.
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