Like...lost cause, lost cause in one direction, lost cause in another direction.
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It's OK to call a lost cause a lost cause.
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Michigan may seem like a lost cause for any Republican.
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Apparently, the war on bugs was always a lost cause.
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Then suddenly all parties understand you as a lost cause.
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You wouldn't be hitching your wagon to a lost cause.
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If so, it seems like a lost cause for McConnell.
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Going meatless when you can, then, isn't a lost cause.
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"Nationally, we think it's a lost cause," he told Reuters.
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"I refuse to believe it's a lost cause," he said.
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" Today, Whitfield says, "It seems to be a lost cause.
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But to the committee, Mr. Glidewell was a lost cause.
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Conservatives are, for all intents and purposes, a lost cause.
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And who symbolized the Lost Cause more fully than Lee?
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Republicans had indicated they thought Paul was a lost cause.
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It's tragic & he probably can't be fixed, a lost cause.
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Just five years ago, Ivory Coast seemed like a lost cause.
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Lost cause "historians" also set out to destroy Longstreet's military record.
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Like, we're flat-lining over here, and it's a lost cause.
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Don't treat these people as if they were a lost cause.
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Some games, like Batman: Arkham Knight, have proven a lost cause.
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Most people mistakenly consider this audience to be a lost cause.
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The Lost Cause is a distorted version of Civil War history.
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Expecting presidential leadership on this issue is, sadly, a lost cause.
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The Confederacy is the "lost cause," and so is Trump's presidency.
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It's tragic and he probably can't be fixed, a lost cause.
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The Russians sold because they judged the territory a lost cause.
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But the country's energy future is far from a lost cause.
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When IS captured the city in 2014, Iraq seemed a lost cause.
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And even if they did, it would have been a lost cause.
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But Arena is hopeful that USA Soccer is not a lost cause.
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Graham's tweets indicated he considered Trump's campaign to be a lost cause.
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"You're just kind of like, 'It's a lost cause,'" Ms. Muteba said.
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Dads are depressed but redeemable, moms are pretty much a lost cause.
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Richmond is checkered with bronze and stone tributes to the Lost Cause.
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Republicans increasingly concede privately that their House majority seems a lost cause.
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" Instead, these memorials romanticize both Robert E. Lee and the "Lost Cause.
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From that day on, I became increasingly skeptical of the Lost Cause.
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One way they did this was by creating the Lost Cause myth.
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As new Prime Minister Anthony Eden explains, it's pretty much a lost cause.
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At first glance, OfMatthew (Ashleigh LaThrop) seems like a rule-abiding lost cause.
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Before there was fake news, the Lost Cause propagandists were creating fake history.
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And the Lost Cause isn't just a Southern myth; it's a national one.
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The names of some teams kept—and still keep—Lost Cause embers smoldering.
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Russia's message for Europe is that corruption makes Ukraine hopeless, a lost cause.
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In many ways, negotiations with the legendary deal maker are a lost cause.
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It is still difficult to credit how long the Lost Cause lie lasted.
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Why waste a pitcher, even a mop-up man, in a lost cause?
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"Trying to explain yourself to these people is a lost cause," he said.
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But I think the Matrix lore is a lost cause at this point.
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Today as in years past, MID reform is generally considered a lost cause.
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Harry begs Hermione (Emma Watson) to help him, but it's a lost cause.
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Despite these challenges, the center may not yet be an entirely lost cause.
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Why has such a lost cause become such a powerful force in political life?
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I was a lost cause, perhaps—though they were too polite to say it.
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Virginia appears a lost cause, but the other two states are up for grabs.
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Better shape up (except for the Maldives, it looks like a lost cause).[Pappubahry]
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History suggests it's not a lost cause either, as Fallin's predecessor, the Democratic Gov.
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The company needs to stop wasting money dragging its lost cause through the courts.
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"It's a lost cause," he said of the flag and the war it represented.
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Nodding off can be a real challenge sometimes, but it's not a lost cause.
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And once in a while I'll try Gilbert Sorrentino, which is a lost cause.
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Black women are believed to be, in some sense, a "lost cause" for Republicans.
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The red hat represents a lost cause, as did brown shirts and white sheets.
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" Marwick draws a bleak conclusion: Battling online harassment, she says, is "a lost cause.
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He later championed Polish nationhood, fighting bravely for what was then a lost cause.
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Clearly, the political class-filled GOP-controlled Congress is a lost cause on this one.
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Pressing it expecting it to bring you back to the homescreen is a lost cause.
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The Lost Cause was manufactured to deny that slavery was the reason for the war.
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He doesn't make me feel like a series of checkboxes or a lost cause, either.
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The former Confederate capital was now a center of Confederate memorialization and "Lost Cause" ideology.
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What its defenders like to call the Lost Cause was, in fact, a Bad Cause.
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Do you have a lost cause that is too important to you to give up?
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I was thinking, This is a lost cause: I'm spending $123, $40, $50 a day.
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What we're witnessing is the birth of a lost-cause mythology for the Trump presidency.
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Global community is pie in the sky; Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, a lost cause.
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I think people feel a little bit lost cause they don't like they have a voice.
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So, while Black Panther's genre does set it back somewhat, it's not quite a lost cause.
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"It's a symbol of the 'Lost Cause' ideology," one parent, Joshua Schultz, told the Tulsa World.
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This type of manager is going to take some convincing, but it's not a lost cause.
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For those who aren't willing to do that, battling is a bit of a lost cause.
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Featured on a nearby wall, a segment of Nolli's map seems both blueprint and lost cause.
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One of the tablets turned out to be a lost cause—the memory chip was damaged.
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The Free Syrian Army once seemed a lost cause, including to some of its own fighters.
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But teachers who hold unacknowledged biases or prejudices towards LGBTQ individuals are not a lost cause.
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By contrast, the anti-Trump types triggered by this move sure seem like a lost cause.
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Then, late Friday, the bill was withdrawn, because it was a lost cause — barring some miracle.
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When he disappeared after his father's death, his family wrote him off as a lost cause.
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When it's victorious, so are you, because you've turned an otherwise lost cause into a tiny triumph.
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History suggests that the aim of creating large numbers of manufacturing jobs will be a lost cause.
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But in that lost-cause world, seeing is not believing, and seemingly concrete measurements are mere creations.
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The same dynamics that nurtured the rise of the Lost Cause are evident now, some historians say.
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If you've got a large chest, you may feel like button-ups are a total lost cause.
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Show these weak members that theirs is a lost cause, easily defeated, ineffective and ultimately weak itself.
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They also raised questions about the allocation of funds in districts that they consider a lost cause.
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Like, think of it as don't just give up, that it's a lost cause as a business.
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Steve King, the outspoken nativist Republican from Iowa has all but declared Trump's presidency a lost cause.
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I was an idiot, obviously, but I was happy to have a lost cause of my own.
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None of this is to suggest he's a lost cause, in this particular area or any other.
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It looks like a lost cause but if we do things well who knows what could happen?
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I'm recognizing that when it comes to babysitting this president, the Republican Party is a lost cause.
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But if she's staying in the race in hopes of winning the nomination, it's a lost cause.
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Since then, Jackson's remakes have produced 17 wins, then 32 and then another lost cause this season.
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The Lost Cause, a romanticized vision of the Old South and Confederacy, gained adherents throughout the country.
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Instead, the candidates seemed to silently acknowledge that disarming the North was all but a lost cause.
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The Senate is a lost cause, and has been on this issue since Trump rose to office.
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The Suns' season is a lost cause, which suggests they should probably be playing their young players more.
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And another run for Senate in religious, gun-loving Texas is likely a lost cause at this point.
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After it was viciously gutted last month, many observers thought California's net neutrality bill was a lost cause.
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But their support for monuments and the "Lost Cause" narrative raises red flags for the civil rights watchdog.
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If you think it's weird to be 40 and married, perhaps YOU are the lost cause in question.
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I feel like Tortorella is already close to being a lost cause in terms of how he's viewed.
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When he tells her, "Don't blame money, it's people…," is the moment I realize he's a lost cause.
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Justice for Christopher Allen, as with so many who've perished in South Sudan, is probably a lost cause.
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It's not entirely accurate, as evidenced by both Lost Cause narratives and the paucity of historians on battlefields.
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Without an early burst of momentum, they soon fade into obscurity or are dismissed as a lost cause.
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Mr. Haq and his neighbors spent hours fighting the fire until dawn, when it became a lost cause.
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Excepting those who opt out of the digital world altogether, controls on data gathering is a lost cause.
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When he retired from the government, he worried that pursuing a career in music was a lost cause.
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But you have that right, too: You get to object to someone's seeming advocacy of the Lost Cause.
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The Lost Cause narrative was fueled by popular films and strengthened by Confederate monuments erected across the country.
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Walking through the participants and their level of commitment, Croft singled out Kazakhstan as being a "lost cause".
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The book, though seemingly written for the largest possible audience, seems to assume that men are a lost cause.
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Trump seized on this right away by giving up on the lost cause of winning over the news media.
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And I can remember being stonewalled in a way that it made me think it was a lost cause.
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It's also unfair to show up to a convention for a lost cause, then dismiss the crowd as losers.
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Manager Paul Molitor said he wouldn't hesitate using Gimenez again if faced with another lost-cause late-inning situation.
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Lost Cause adherents glorified the antebellum South, painting a bucolic tableau of Southern belles, stately plantations and happy slaves.
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Voices who wanted to improve the Iran deal but not scrap it suggested that is now a lost cause.
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No matter what the distractions are between Thanksgiving and the New Year, staying organized is not a lost cause.
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"Virginia has made more of a transition than most Southern states away from the lost cause mentality," he said.
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"We're not going to just say it's a lost cause in September of the first year of the administration."
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Is America's ability to combat coronavirus a lost cause, or is there a way to rectify these major stumbles?
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Soldiers pitched in there too, helping the school staff rescue a building that had looked like a lost cause.
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Her sisters imbibed the same creed as Children of the Confederacy, a civic organization dedicated to the Lost Cause.
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She didn't attend the auction, because she knew it was a lost cause and the building would be sold.
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Searching for other competitive gamers who are above the age of 18 is a bit of a lost cause.
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I washed down my meal with a gulp of lemonade and wrote off the fries as a lost cause.
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"I think people felt like this was a lost cause and not much could be done," Dr. Williamson said.
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Trump could have deemed building an extension of the border wall with Mexico a lost cause and moved on.
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But after his death in 1870, admirers in the South made him the centerpiece of the Lost Cause campaign.
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Senior officials view moving Trump away from unsecure lines as a lost cause at this point, one person said.
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But Jackson's nomination has been a rolling disaster and in Washington's collective opinion, he is now a lost cause.
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Some argue that manufacturing is a lost cause, that those jobs are never coming back so why bother trying.
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Lost Cause historians at the University of Alabama watered down the radical nature of Winston's devotion to the Union.
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"There was a thorough effort to get rid of Nazi stragglers and Lost Cause supporters," adds historian Gavriel Rosenfeld.
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A YEAR AGO the case for a second vote on EU membership looked like the definition of a lost cause.
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"Nobody's a complete lost cause," she tells me, because she hasn't noticed that I'm still trying to tie my apron.
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Maybe Democrats wouldn't have won in Kansas if they pumped money into the race; maybe Montana is a lost cause.
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Explaining exactly how artificial neural networks (ANN) work in a mathless way can sometimes feel like a lost cause, though.
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To this day, he carries a note around with him from a corrections officer who considered him a lost cause.
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Poor living conditions in Michigan Kinross Correctional Facility inmate Anthony Bates suspects most people see him as a lost cause.
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Ms. Garrido sees the accusations against her as further evidence of why whistle-blowing is a lost cause in Spain.
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A toxic employee isn't necessarily a lost cause, but they need to be addressed before they can cause real harm.
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Two weeks after Bauer left, CCA voluntarily withdrew from its contract, essentially admitting that the facility was a lost cause.
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The president sees the final destination as the "ultimate deal," but many analysts regard it as the ultimate lost cause.
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Perhaps I was a human being who had the potential to change, not just another lost cause in an epidemic.
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It was made in 1924, when a brew of Lost Cause nostalgia and resurgent racist anger was saturating the South.
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They dismiss as a lost cause the attempt to revive the towns of the Midwest and South by reviving manufacturing.
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Big cities like New York, the reasoning went, would be a lost cause in the event of a direct hit.
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And perhaps all of those precedents, too, have persuaded players that there is no such thing as a lost cause.
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Naples, Italy's third largest city, was already a lost cause for the PD, whose candidate was knocked out on June 5.
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He came to personify the now-discredited "Lost Cause" argument that South rebelled in 1861 not over slavery but states' rights.
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"It might be a lost cause … right now," she told PEOPLE Now on Monday of her ex's ability to be monogamous.
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Exasperated, his new girlfriend berates him for ignoring her—he misses dates to work on what might be a lost cause.
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Many countries across Africa are portrayed as a lost cause — a hot bed for corruption, violence, and inaction from those elected.
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But attendees from other nations appear to have simply accepted that this administration is a lost cause and incapable of rationality.
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Mario may be the master, but that doesn't mean that you're a lost cause when it comes to your lunch game.
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And in 1896 the all-female Confederate Memorial Literary Society opened the Confederate Museum, an institutional home for Lost Cause revisionism.
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People don't like to vote for lost causes — and Biden sure looked like a lost cause for the past few weeks.
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"People have said the river is lost cause; I don't like that," said Tim Bonner, a biologist at Texas State University.
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Yeah, Ivanka said it's a lost cause and it's better to just let him go, and start afresh with someone new.
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"Sometimes I felt hopeless and that I should just be with an older man because I'm a lost cause," she wrote.
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Not a lost cause While the challenges are formidable, some of the advisers see light at the end of the tunnel.
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Holding a position is also a lost cause, but once you master the sensitive controls, these are fun to fly and fight.
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But if you play your cards right, he says, it can turn a completely lost cause into a foot in the door.
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Those who deny that racism and xenophobia were central to Trump's victory are engaging in another Lost Cause cover-up, they say.
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That much should be clear from the title of his March 29 research note: "LME Warehousing - Looking Increasingly like a Lost Cause".
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For Lost Cause adherents, and many other Southerners who had elevated Lee to almost God-like status, this was seen as heresy.
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But if that's the remedy, it is a lost cause: No one who figures out how to avoid advertising willingly goes back.
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Howard Smith, one of the older members of Encore, had worried that pursuing a music career after retirement was a lost cause.
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It seemed like a lost cause; McMorris Rodgers has never received less than 56 percent of the vote in seven general elections.
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I haven't been able to read Mr. Handke's work since he devoted himself to the lost cause of Mr. Milosevic and Serbia.
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If you've ever despaired of getting your vacuum cleaner fixed or thought that your broken lamp was a lost cause, there's hope.
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In those post-Reconstruction years, political power was returning to white Southern hands and the so-called Lost Cause movement was brewing.
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The correct, proven strategy for countering terrorists and their organizations is to prove to them, swiftly, that theirs is a lost cause.
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Efforts to unravel the influence of the Lost Cause have proliferated in recent years, including in the former Confederate capital of Richmond.
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In his library, Gibson unfolded himself from his chair, retrieving a copy of "The Lost Cause," which he had salvaged from Wytheville.
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"There was an assumption that Georgia was a lost cause, Georgia was conservative and it was not going to change," she said.
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So now the Democrats have to look to someone else to captain the ship before they tether themselves to another lost cause.
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Any voter who identifies primarily as a woman or minority first and an American second is a lost cause for the Trump campaign.
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At least the women of Winter Games prove they believe Ben isn't a total lost cause, as he survives the first rose ceremony.
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According to the Academy Award winner, if a woman doesn't have her life figured out by age 40, she's basically a lost cause.
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The fact is that trying to protect yourself from the internet and its depravity is basically a lost cause, for the most part.
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She told me that she's encountered many people in Greenville who tell her that her candidate is a lost cause in this state.
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But it wasn't a lost cause, either, Carla added—the record showed that they were still able to recover a single, healthy cornea.
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The common belief is that it's a lost cause and only backfires, as Rubio learned the hard way, on the person who tries.
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Yet Confederate monuments obscure this history, thereby perpetuating the Lost Cause lie that slavery was not the central cause of the Civil War.
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Markers will combat the 'Lost Cause' narrative This comes as communities across the country confront Confederate monuments and debate how to handle them.
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At times, that seemed like a lost cause, even after President Vladimir V. Putin signed three resolutions ordering officials to support the school.
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The Irish Undertaker, Paul Ryan, is a lost cause — and increasingly looks like a bystander to the multiple-car wreck happening before him.
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When that happens, he calls those "suppression polls" because they might have the effect of discouraging people to vote for a lost cause.
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On the surface, it might seem like a lost cause: A Democrat running a statewide campaign in Louisiana in the Year of Trump.
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We in Charlottesville demand the right to express our community values, not be bound by those of the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy.
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Look no further than I.T.'s male-dominated hiring pool to explain why gender diversity is a lost cause in the I.T. industry.
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No one, no matter how fond they are of the candidate, wants to contribute to something that is so obviously a lost cause.
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They were identified via more traditional means and their activities linked to the market in such a way that defense seems a lost cause.
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The statues were built after the Civil War as part of the "Lost Cause" narrative advanced by Southern whites to justify the South's loss.
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But wiping out your debt and getting good with money is not a pipe dream, so don't think of yourself as a lost cause.
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After finding the stash of francs Adam accidentally left behind, the trio quickly flee to Switzerland, but the journey seems like a lost cause.
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But after money was raised, sponsoring groups promoted the "Lost Cause" ideology -- the belief that states' rights, not slavery, was the Confederacy's principal cause.
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None of the white writers of Lost Cause slave ship accounts had the slightest concern about whether their readers understood the Africans on board.
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Sadly, for this year's soybean crop, it may be a lost cause, and that's a significant problem for the $41 billion U.S. soybean industry.
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Believers in the Lost Cause felt that the South had lost gallantly, and honoring the Confederate dead would preserve their values for future generations.
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If you spend a lot less than $8,334 per month on business expenses, pursuing the bonus on this card may be a lost cause.
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That certainly recommends them to the American political landscape right now, when every issue — gun control, gerrymandering, global warming — feels like a lost cause.
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In fact, the vast bulk of Southern white evangelicals defended slavery, clung to the Lost Cause, fought Reconstruction, and designed and defended Jim Crow.
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Mounting a campaign without the support of powerful Democratic leaders is almost a lost cause in a state where party machines remain deeply entrenched.
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Her camp also viewed Mr. Sanders's electoral standing as fading in recent weeks, raising doubts about whether an endorsement would be a lost cause.
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In Wytheville, people owned books like "The Lost Cause," an encyclopedic account of the Civil War, published in 13, which depicted slavery as benign.
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Magic Mike attempts to call Luke out one more time, too, but by the end of the night, it's clear that it's a lost cause.
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This week, that's the renewed questions around radicalization — and a new burst of energy around what many people think is a lost cause: gun control.
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For others, the STEM is a lost cause — a once-groundbreaking product that became a casualty of modern VR's fast-moving and chaotic early years.
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And so if the party cannot find a way to overcome the authoritarians' influence, the White House will remain a lost cause for the GOP.
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Although these countries are not yet a lost cause, and all recently sent high-level visitors to Taiwan, Tsai's trip redoubled efforts with smaller allies.
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in October that it's a "lost cause" to try to get North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons.
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But all hope of turning up isn't lost ... 'cause our Vegas sources tell us 1 OAK secured Silva at the last minute and are pumped.
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"Despite the impending extinction facing many of the world's primates, we remain adamant that primate conservation is not yet a lost cause," the researchers wrote.
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During this period, which included the Supreme Court ruling that legalized "separate but equal" public accommodations, the "Lost Cause" narrative took hold throughout the South.
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Still, any attempt at cooperation with the victorious North and the newly emancipated slaves ran afoul of the growing "Lost Cause" movement in the South.
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After this debate, it is possible for Trump to retrieve his candidacy, whereas it looked like a lost cause in the two days just preceding.
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The Miami front office has already signaled that this season is a lost cause, trading away left tackle Laremy Tunsil and wide receiver Kenny Stills.
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I felt like asking to completely wipe out Greek life was a lost cause, especially considering the deep alumni ties that the University holds dear.
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A damaged analog tape is not necessarily a lost cause: An engineer may be able to perform restoration work and get the recording to play.
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These survivors, while road worn, are by no means as much of a lost cause as other car models of the era facing similar conditions.
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By adding contextual markers, communities can counter the Lost Cause, which became widely recognized as former Confederates tried to rationalize and cope with their defeat.
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Some of your more hysterical US commentators (uh, me) reacted to Trump's election by writing off Paris's 2 degree climate target as a lost cause.
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But the lopsided focus on it — I plead guilty myself — sometimes creates the impression that taking the Senate is a pipe dream and lost cause.
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Yet they quietly breathe life into the South's racist, Lost Cause ideology by holding up Robert E. Lee as a paragon of heritage or virtue.
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Rather, it said the sculpture had emerged from the Lost Cause movement, which developed in the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The risk here, as with the original Lost Cause narrative, is that it will encourage far-right groups to assault and murder Trump's political opponents.
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I'm an outlier because I'm such a history geek and dug so deep into the Lost Cause myth that I came out the other side.
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Perlman and Yoshioka recognize that it's easy to see the work that PEPP does as a lost cause — a bunch of Don Quixotes tilting at windmills.
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The perpetual showboat Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance) doesn't even want to be involved in the O. J. case, having already deemed it a lost cause.
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Canadian directors Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard started their filmmaking career together in 2008 with Lost Cause, a tiny comedy they wrote and starred in themselves.
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Though New Hampshire seemed like a lost cause, she punched hard in Thursday night's debate, skewering Sanders' lofty proposals as fantasy that could never be achieved.
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Since the other characters were too far away, meant to provide cover and fire for the character sneaking to the exit, it was a lost cause.
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But if we're looking at the polls and all the available evidence to us, the House is not a lost cause for Republicans at this time.
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My cavalry ruthlessly hunted down all the slingers and skirmishers that Veii had, routing them from the field, but the main fight was a lost cause.
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" A senior adviser to the European Union, Nathalie Tocci, said that the Iran deal was a lost cause, because "Trump and Europe have fundamentally different objectives.
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But an orderly withdrawal of NATO forces can be organized and executed before the year is out and more lives are lost to a lost cause.
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To succeed as a black candidate in 20013, Mr. Wilder had to patiently accommodate the one-time segregationist Democrats and the state's Lost Cause Confederate heritage.
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From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
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The Jenningses aren't going to be left behind on the battlefield, soldiers for a lost cause; they're behind the scenes, making sure the ceasefire happens at all.
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One response to these allegations could be to write off the West End altogether, declare it shallow, seal it up as a lost cause and walk away.
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"My father's last campaign seemed, from its outset a lost cause, but he was genuinely happy for the first time since losing his brother," Kennedy tells PEOPLE.
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Mitt Romney, a far better man than Mr Trump, told Republicans that 47% of the public were a lost cause, believing themselves "victims" entitled to government handouts.
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This is because, in the Japanese ethos, there is far more dignity in remaining true to a lost cause than in sacrificing one's principles for worldly gain.
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Poor Aidy Bryant tries her best to play the part of a dead granny while Cumberbatch genitals gyrate inches from her face, but it's a lost cause.
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The season has been a lost cause for the Brooklyn Nets for the last few months, but that doesn't mean the players have stopped putting in effort.
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But his hard-line position on abortion makes him a lost cause for the left, and he is now the only independent lawmaker in the entire House.
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Even when running against a candidate as dreadful as Gianforte, given the current brand of the Democratic Party, a special election in Montana is a lost cause.
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Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen believes that Turner's new legal effort is already a lost cause, according to a statement given to The Mercury News.
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In 1979, Soviet authorities sided with the realists, decided the searches were a lost cause, and redirected their energies towards a project with more tangible results: reconstruction.
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Ladies Associations were also the largest proponents of the Lost Cause narrative, the assertion that the South had seceded, heroically, to preserve states' rights and not slavery.
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In his book, The Culture of Defeat, historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch likens the Lost Cause to the Christ myth, and the fall of the Confederacy to the Crucifixion.
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In 1993, he delivered a fiery speech before the lower house of Congress urging its demise, calling the emerging version of democracy in Brazil a lost cause.
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A popular leftist YouTuber named Shaun, who asked that his last name not be used for reasons of personal safety, thinks Bonnell's is probably a lost cause.
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You can change history, because you can change your view, which is never certain, even if Lost Cause thinking and contemporary white nationalist politics insist it is.
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It may be a lost cause for Democrats to try to adhere to old standards while the GOP is ready to launch a no-holds-barred campaign.
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I quickly devoured all 11.5 hours of the series, and though the documentary is far from neo-Confederate propaganda, I was drawn to its Lost Cause elements.
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As I read different historians, considered their arguments, sifted through their footnotes, and consulted their primary sources, it became clear the Lost Cause was a pernicious myth.
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Moving money away from vulnerable GOP incumbents suggests that the party sees these races as a lost cause, but the NRCC is still advertising in both of them.
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Anti-gay stigma and bigotry were still rampant, both within the culture and within the field, but establishment psychologists had given up conversion attempts as a lost cause.
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Misrepresenting Lee as a benign, honorable figure is a common feature of Lost Cause mythology, which valorizes him and other Confederate leaders who fought to defend white supremacy.
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Now, many opponents will try to frame the fight in the House as a lost cause, but we've already demonstrated that energy and momentum are on our side.
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Romney, in 2012, articulated an Afghanistan War policy that sounded hawkish but was functionally identical to Obama's (both implicitly recognized the war as a failure and lost cause).
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If Mr. Xi thinks Mr. Kim is a lost cause, he would be more likely to turn to Mr. Trump for solutions, but only after the party congress.
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They recast Confederate soldiers as heroes fighting not for the institution of slavery but for the "Lost Cause," the mythology of the Confederacy as a grand patriarchal civilization.
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Like Lost Cause apologists, Texas A&M University honors the memorabilia of Klan leaders and takes pride in the racial provincialism of the past instead of purging them.
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Some of the network's donors privately tell us that the House majority looks like a lost cause, potentially accelerating the movement of money toward protecting the Senate majority.
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When family members and survivors of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School filed suit against Bushmaster in December 2014, it seemed a lot like a lost cause.
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Related: A Narco-Sant, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico In Ecatepec, the visit of the Pope was unexpected by local residents.
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A group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans began pushing back, fighting for the Lost Cause legend—and, in so doing, they created the myth of black Confederate soldiers.
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Hospitals pursue patients' bills, occasionally threatening legal action, but if they think it's a lost cause, they sell the uncollected debt to debt buyers for pennies on the dollar.
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The Lost Cause also took root because many Americans were being urged to reconcile with the South so the nation could move forward, says Simpson, the Civil War historian.
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An RNC official working on convention planning said party insiders increasingly expect Trump to be the nominee, which impacts how hard people really want to push a lost cause.
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While General Lee is a complicated figure who initially argued against secession, I now understand that his canonization is the rhetoric of the Lost Cause — hook, line and sinker.
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On paper, if you were to see my record you would have probably thought I was a lost cause — someone unable to function as a respectable member of society.
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But neither the attack aimed at disfiguring the country nor the mourning now underway should obscure one truth: Afghanistan is not simply a basket case or a lost cause.
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Soraya and Joseph both gave them their blessing to propose to JoJo, and Jordan wrote JoJo a note to let her know that he wasn't a complete lost cause.
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"I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause," Clapper said at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York.
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"I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause," Clapper said at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York.
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A committee says it promotes the "Lost Cause" mythology, which portrays the Confederacy nobly by suggesting it was state's rights, not slavery, that prompted secession and the Civil War.
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Bank stocks rose in Europe after authorities in Frankfurt and Brussels declared that Banco Popular was essentially a lost cause and sold it to Banco Santander, Spain's largest bank.
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The Lost Cause narrative, perpetuated by groups sympathetic to the Confederate effort, asserted the war was fought over states' rights and downplayed slavery as the defining "right" in dispute.
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More bad data for Republicans: Some donors think the House is a lost cause and are considering whether they should shift their money to focus on protecting the Senate.
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Donald Trump's slogan about Making America Great Again was a hard-edged claim about a specific historical narrative that appealed largely to white voters' nostalgia of a lost cause.
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After Alabama won, the notion that the victory had been another blow for the Lost Cause was not really the subtext of the South's reaction — it was the text.
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Johnson peddled the racist myth that Southern whites were victimized by black emancipation and citizenship, which became an article of faith among Lost Cause proponents in the postwar South.
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Hannity is a lost cause, but we can hope that O'Reilly and perhaps even Tucker Carlson are willing to take on the White House when the moment calls for it.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans built monuments that promoted the "Lost Cause" ideology.
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Now only Gubaidulina is left as a major figure, and many music-minded Americans may have thought that, in Russia, new music, along with democracy, was becoming a lost cause.
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Best use of time during what had clearly become a dead-end campaign Kasich's was a lost cause way before he arrived in New York ahead of its April primary.
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All good doom scenes need a more ambient option to balance things out, and Cult of the Lost Cause is more than happy to step into that role in Denver.
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And in a sign that Republicans see the presidential race as a lost cause, several Senate candidates are preparing ads asking voters to elect them as a check on Mrs.
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After the Civil War, he joined the Klan and fervidly embraced the cult of the Lost Cause, also ensuring that his children were "dipped deep" in this white supremacist ideology.
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After slavery's end in this country, many Southern-focused textbooks promoted a Lost Cause approach to Jamestown and slavery writ large, portraying the institution as part of a natural order.
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Though bipartisanship in Washington may to some seem like a lost cause, one area of teamwork between Republicans and Democrats is health-care reform and mutual distrust of health insurers.
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" An inmate admits to selling crack to all those people but he wants the president to know he is not a lost cause: "I have dreams Mr. President, big dreams.
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With the island's economy increasingly tied to the mainland's, and Beijing's global influence on the rise, he worried that Taiwan's independence was at stake — and might be a lost cause.
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If anyone is responsible for a myth, it is likely the former enslavers looking back on a lost cause, celebrating themselves as grandees responsible for the best of Southern culture.
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A model by Carrubba, Friedman, Martin, and Vanberg (2012) shows that when justices write off a colleague as a lost cause, they don't take their views into account during opinion writing.
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Tangier was not necessarily a lost cause: Schulte outlined a rough engineering plan, costing around $30 million, that involved breakwaters, pumped-in sand and new vegetation that could preserve the island.
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U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper has today determined that disarming North Korea of nuclear weapons is 'probably a lost cause;' tomorrow that could very well be the case with Iran.
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But, in a sign that Republicans now view the presidential race as a lost cause, several Senate candidates are preparing ads asking voters to elect them as a check on Mrs.
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Apple has made moves to improve gaming and VR support for macOS, but it's looking like a lost cause at the moment, with little interest from third-party developers and manufacturers.
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The latest occupants, Iraqi soldiers, seem to have written it off as a lost cause, leaving styrofoam plates of rotting meat and rice on the floors of decimated rooms for weeks.
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Proponents of the Cult of the Lost Cause are essentially historical revisionists who reject the notion that those who fought for the South were fighting to preserve the institution of slavery.
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Due to efforts by a group of Southern socialites known as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lost Cause ideology influenced history textbooks as well as books for children and adults.
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One open secret of social activism is that nobody can ever really predict when, where, how or why any given issue will change from a lost cause to a cause célèbre.
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The myth of the "Lost Cause" had to die, the reality of racial wrongs required more acknowledgment, the Judeo-Christian center had to make room for a larger plurality of faiths.
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Chris Christie (R), is viewed skeptically by the RNC because of her criticism of Trump after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape and as a lost cause, the report said.
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With the election in 1979 of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — an ardent advocate of neoliberal economics — the British economy's industrial grounding was more or less abandoned as a lost cause.
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All this flies in the face of what many national Republican party officials see as a lost cause in Virginia, especially since its popular Senator, Tim Kaine, is Hillary Clinton's running mate.
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The Lost Cause, a revisionist history movement that downplayed the evil that was American chattel slavery and turned Confederate soldiers into heroes—think Gone with the Wind—didn't only infect white Southerners.
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There are those who say that Crimea is a lost cause — that Mr. Putin will never allow it to be returned to Ukraine because Russian ties to the peninsula run too deep.
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Aeropostale Inc is a lost cause and should plan to sell itself rather than aim for a comeback, according to a lender with an affiliate that supplies the bankrupt teen-focused retailer.
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The Lost Cause can only truly be part of his heritage and his culture if he sees it as a struggle on behalf of white Americans to retain a certain racial hierarchy.
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Barletta looks like a lost cause, but Trump's visit could be a boon to House Republicans, who are a facing a potential bloodbath in Pennsylvania due to the redrawn congressional district maps.
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Because of that western land border, a Turkish absence from NATO is "not necessarily a game-changer for Ukraine, and in naval terms, they're already kind of a lost cause," Lamrani said.
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They believed that Mr. Bayh, 60, whose two terms each as governor and senator were won mostly with ease, had turned a lost cause in a red state into a sure win.
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" Despite the involvement of two well-regarded black writer-producers, the show was dismissed by skeptics as Lost Cause nostalgia dressed up in progressive prestige-cable clothing, or even "slavery fan fiction.
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I mean you need to lead McMaster, Tillerson and Kelly (Pompeo is a lost cause) in telling Trump that if he does not change his ways you will all quit, en masse.
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And with a handsome, self-assured Michael C. Hall in the role of Pain (a last name that shrieks volumes), he appears as less of a lost cause than he once did.
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By the time a crew of workers erected a six-foot tall fence around the perimeter of my neighbor's yard two years ago, I knew I was staring at a lost cause.
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He was struck in particular by a statue of General J.E.B. Stuart and its evocation of Lost Cause ideology, which holds that the Confederate states were the noble targets of Northern aggression.
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"It's been caught up in 'the Lost Cause,' and that made it a sore subject for a lot of people," Dr. Jones said of the painting that stood nearby, shrouded in scaffolding.
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The research indicates that waiting until high school to address the gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is an uphill march, and waiting until college makes it a lost cause.
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In fact, rural America is not a lost cause to the party, but an important opportunity to make the case that Democratic policy ideas are good for Americans outside of the coastal cities.
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One was "the white whale"; this is a pursuit by people who are just wasting money from a party and it's a lost cause that's just going to drown them in the end.
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And state leaders are stepping forward with big promises and inspirational rhetoric, attempting to rally the domestic troops, build some momentum, and signal to the world that the US isn't a lost cause.
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In addition to explaining the "Lost Cause" ideology that the monument's builders subscribed to, the new plaque describes how the statue was a meeting place for a rally opposing school integration in 1962.
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Opponents say the monuments inappropriately glorify the rebellion's history of slavery and promote the "Lost Cause" ideology, which holds that states' rights was the Confederacy's core driver, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Jefferson wanted to move our country forward; Lee became a hero of the "lost cause" version of Civil War history, which glorified our country's dark ages at a time when we needed light.
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Read: America's complicated history with Confederate past Laser show has it all: From 'Drone Wars' to Elvis The genesis for the carving came during the height of the "Lost Cause" period in Georgia.
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He knew he had ransomed his life to a lost cause, for a people who were strangers to him, but to whom he felt an obligation, and he did not quit on them.
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" A recent report on the history of the Stone Mountain carving published by the Atlanta History Center shows its "strong connections to white supremacy, Confederate Lost Cause mythology, and anti-Civil Rights sentiments.
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Even with a cast that includes Michael Peña and Eva Longoria as Dora's parents and Eugenio Derbez ("Instructions Not Included") as a jungle guide, this looks like it could be a lost cause.
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The goal for Democrats is to limit the rebellion to just Van Drew, who seems like a lost cause, and Peterson, who represents a district that Trump won by 30+ points in 2016.
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Strong support from the White House A president's desire for new gun control measures is no guarantee he'll get them, but without driving support from the White House, it's truly a lost cause.
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Republicans have been competitive with college-educated women Some conservatives have tried to minimize the risk the party faces this year among professional white women by suggesting they are already a lost cause.
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They may come out to protect existing rights, but there's only so far they are willing to rock the boat when it comes to fighting for what many think of as a lost cause.
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For those who want a social issues drama that contends with the intersections of race, class, and gender in modern America, there are better options, but that doesn't make Shots Fired a lost cause.
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Why it matters: Advocates say that they need lawmakers' help soon, or else drugmakers will see biosimilars as a lost cause and the system will lose its only check on the cost of biologics.
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Washington (CNN)Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday it's a "lost cause" to try to get North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons -- a view that runs counter to official US policy.
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"At this point, I think reddit is a lost cause because of the admins inability to take action on the group while simultaneously being overwhelmed with dealing with the individual," a moderator told us.
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As much as we aspire to undo all that holiday budget damage by eating out less in January, selecting the prime meal-plan for our particular habits and schedules can be a lost cause.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Honduran opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla said his bid for the presidency was a "lost cause" on Friday after the United States recognized President Juan Orlando Hernandez as winner of the election.
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The "Lost Cause" took on popular literary form in Thomas Dixon's novel "The Clansman," which became the basis for D. W. Griffith's 1915 " The Birth of a Nation ," the first great American feature film.
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Like our love of a crunching tackle or a striker chasing a lost cause, diving is the manifestation of a different set of cultural preferences, and our reflexive intolerance of it is closed minded.
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Historians disagree about Lee's ultimate views on slavery, but he became a powerful symbol of the "Lost Cause," an idealized postwar characterization in the former Confederacy of the antebellum South and the war itself.
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He argues that the statues should remain in place, but include added context clarifying that the lost cause they represent would have perpetuated slavery, not just the euphemistic "states' rights" preferred by some traditionalists.
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In 2013, the Museum of the Confederacy — an institution created as a shrine to the Lost Cause — merged with the American Civil War Museum and reframed the narrative around the Confederate artifacts on display.
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On the 14th, Fowler sank a 40-foot birdie putt after a glorious wood shot from the fairway, turning around what looked a lost cause after he hit his drive into the thick rough.
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When asked whether they should try to persuade Trump to change his mind or whether he is a lost cause, both Kerry and Schwarzenegger said the issue is much larger than any one person.
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You also want the other party to waste as many votes as possible — either by voting for lost-cause candidates or by widening the margins for candidates who were going to win in any case.
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"When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause," she explained on the premiere episode.
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Schools have tried to crack down on this problem but at the end of the day, there are so many people vaping that I believe that ending the vaping in schools is a lost cause.
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The idea behind this theory: Independent pollsters are oversampling Democrats in a nefarious plot -- coordinated with Hillary Clinton's campaign -- to convince Trump supporters that voting is a lost cause and rig the election against him.
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" The main reason is because of the protagonist Robert Jordan's romantic love of country, and fighting for a lost cause just because it was honorable "After your father and grandfather, who is your biggest hero?
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Democrats, who lost almost a thousand state legislative seats nationally over the past decade, began to dig themselves out on Tuesday, expanding the map and challenging for seats they'd previously dismissed as a lost cause.
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CNN is reporting they've uncovered the transcripts of a 1995 speech in which Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie advocated a "Lost Cause" view of the Civil War in which the Confederates were tragic heroes.
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Speaking in a former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, a city whose most stately boulevard is lined with monuments to the leaders of the Lost Cause, the former president did not directly mention the statues.
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The majority of the monuments counted by SPLC were erected long after the Civil War had ended, as part of what's known as "The Cult of the Lost Cause," starting in the late 19th century.
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Today, when much of society and politics — both in and outside the United States — looks like a lost cause to a great number of people, we might do well to consider Quixote's brand of lunacy.
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Nobody can remember what the point was in the first place, but by picking back up a lost cause, it reminds everyone that you are still steaming about something that happened earlier in the debate.
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When López Obrador refused to concede a narrow defeat to the PAN's Felipe Calderón, after a brutally negative campaign claiming the leftist was a "danger to Mexico," many wrote him off as a lost-cause radical.
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After the Civil War, "Lost Cause" propagandists from the Confederacy argued the war wasn't fought over slavery -- it was a constitutional clash over state's rights, they said; hatred toward blacks had nothing to do with it.
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He told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung paper in an interview that fighting the plan was likely a lost cause at this stage, but Switzerland and allies would do what they could to limit the looming damage.
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Rutherford on her front and Griffith on his sought to fulfill the mission of Redemption, and succeeded: to memorialize the Old South in the new mythology of the Lost Cause — indeed, to make America great again.
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"The statues were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the 'Cult of the Lost Cause,' a movement recognized across the South as celebrating and promoting white supremacy," Landrieu's office said in a statement Friday.
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Sanders should know better than anyone that even significant public bias doesn't make one an electoral lost cause: Nearly half of Americans say they wouldn't vote for a socialist for president, no matter the candidate's qualifications.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in the 21897s on the twin myths of the tragic yet noble Lost Cause of the Confederacy and the happy black folks who just loved them some slavery.
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Some Republican leaders have responded to this discontent by making scapegoats out of immigrants and minorities, and some Democratic leaders have falsely characterized working people as ignorant bigots, and then dismissed them as a lost cause.
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Bush's military advisers believed sending more troops was the only way to turn around a failing war, but the notion of doubling down on what many Americans saw as a lost cause had little public support.
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Democrats didn't spend money on the race, signaling that they thought the race was a lost cause and instead concentrating their resources on a special election in Georgia where they have a much better chance of winning.
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For 29-year-old Goerges, Thursday's outing was not completely a lost cause because despite the mauling, she had finally made it to a semi-final at one of the four majors - albeit on her 42nd attempt.
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I wanted to go to Congo and seek out people who were on the other end of that, on the edge of change, on the edge of justice [who think], This country is not a lost cause.
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As historian David Blight has noted, "the Lost Cause became a mood, or a disposition toward the past," where the Confederacy is cast in a more positive light and the slaves they fought to keep were forgotten.
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The eye-tracking, adhesive handset hit Kickstarter on January 4th, and while it's certainly not a lost cause, two full weeks after launch, the product is only a fraction o the way toward its lofty $500,000 goal.
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"We think it's a lost cause to try to rebalance the commission totally, but for this case we think it's important to have a special member ... to try to break the deadlock, otherwise we're stuck," King said.
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Jeremy Corbyn is now widely seen as a lost cause, particularly after a week in which the chief rabbi accused him of anti-Semitism and a large poll suggested the Tories could win a majority of 68.
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I don't believe that the dream of Turkey being a secular, stable, and democratic country within the Middle East is a lost cause, but I cannot help but see that the dream now requires more determination than ever.
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Netanyahu considered calling Marilyn Hewson, the president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the jets, to ask for help in getting the deal approved but ultimately decided it was a lost cause, according to the Israeli official.
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And just as negotiating with those rats is pointless, debating Republicans on economic policy seems like a lost cause—the GOP only cares about deficits when it's politically convenient, and it won't be honest about its policy goals.
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Many analysts believe the House majority is a lost cause for Republicans but there is a growing sense on the right that the Kavanaugh saga has energized conservatives and will help Republicans preserve their majority in the Senate.
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Hurston reused parts of another Lost Cause slave ship account, Emma Langdon Roche's 1914 "Historic Sketches of the South," an account of the "last slave ship," when she first wrote about Cudjo Lewis/Kossola in a 1927 article.
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Lying awake on my back, my left side, and then my right, absorbing the pumped air and trying hard not to disturb my slumbering girlfriend next to me, falling back to sleep was fast becoming a lost cause.
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Sports of The Times For one night in what most likely is a lost cause of a series, Big Poison and Little Poison utterly dominated an N.B.A. finals game and caused a lake city to wonder what if.
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But Mr. Quist's defeat disappointed grass-roots Democrats who financed nearly his entire campaign while the national party declined to spend heavily on what it considered, from the outset, an all-but-lost cause in daunting political territory.
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For those of us who continue to believe and fight for a victory on what was once considered to be a lost cause, celebrating the First Step Act is something we experience with a great deal of pride.
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They feel that now is their time for one last effort to revive their lost cause, and when the president takes 40 hours to condemn them, it only adds further legitimacy in their eyes to continue their cause.
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The children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom, who published much of Sendak, plus some of Brown, Lobel and Fitzhugh and dozens of others who tested the nerve of even liberal librarians, thought grown-ups were a lost cause anyway.
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Steve Poizner will tell you — in fairly specific detail — why backing John Kasich in the California Republican presidential primary is not a lost cause, despite polls showing a certain boisterous billionaire trouncing his GOP rival in the Golden State.
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If Lohan thought that Lindsay was the way she could be reintroduced to her audience as someone working hard at recovery and putting her life back in order — something more than a lost cause — it didn't work that way.
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Trump's fundraising failures thus far may signal to the biggest Republican donors that his campaign is a lost cause, and that the best way to hedge against a likely Clinton presidency is to pour money into close Senate races.
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The historic record is clear: the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues were not erected just to honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause.
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"The statues that are being removed were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the "Cult of the Lost Cause," a movement recognized across the South as celebrating and promoting white supremacy," Landrieu's office said in a statement.
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Signed to Sailor Records, Cult of the Lost Cause have been making complex, dreamy post-metal, and as a self-described "post-metalgaze-ambidjent" act, COTLC don't shy away from relying on melody and experimentation to expand their sound.
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By the time Mr. Trump arrived in Moon Township, Pa., for the rally, the race had tightened significantly, and many White House and Republican Party officials were already worried that he was lending his support to a lost cause.
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The historic record is clear, the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues were not erected just to honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause.
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For Argentina, defending a lost cause in Bolivia, where few principles are involved, and helping Cuba and Venezuela perpetuate the misery of their people at the cost of American support where it really counts are simply not worth it.
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"At this point, the Monumental Task Committee's time would be better spent working to find a museum or private land where these statues can be displayed in context rather than continuing to fight a lost cause," the statement said.
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In Atlanta, the Cyclorama — a 360-degree diorama the length of a football field that depicts the Battle of Atlanta — was restored and returned to public display, this time with new interpretive materials that defy the Lost Cause myth.
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Most of them were erected decades after the end of the Civil War as a result of a revisionist set of beliefs often referred to as the "Lost Cause" that aimed to romanticize the Confederacy and downplay the issue of slavery.
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As the so-called Lost Cause narrative began to take shape, stories of camp slaves being rebellious or lazy were forgotten, replaced by magnolia-scented tales of loyal slaves who were only too happy to serve the Confederacy (in noncombatant roles).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. policy is to achieve a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday, shortly after a senior U.S. official said trying to persuade Pyongyang to give up nuclear weapons was a lost cause.
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First removal in daylight The statues were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the "lost cause of the Confederacy," a movement recognized across the South as promoting white supremacy, according to a news release from the mayor's office.
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Perhaps in seeking consolation for their repeated failures, the NeverTrump faction will take consolation in their own alternative fable, a Lost Cause narrative whereby they are the true heirs of Reaganism, usurped from their rightful place by the orange Pretender.
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For all that, "The Orville" isn't a complete lost cause, with the third previewed episode actually containing a clever sci-fi allegory, though it will take a lot more of that to prevent the show from being jettisoned off DVR queues.
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More commonly known as the "Lost Cause," this narrative, along with its racist underpinnings, has a long history in the South and especially in Mississippi, due in large part to the influence of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
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These days, fan films have become a popular way to pay tribute to a movie by creating a new original installment in a franchise, with a few, like "Superman: Requiem" or "Spider-Man: Lost Cause," garnering millions of YouTube views.
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The Lost Cause mythology, the ideological devotion in the 19th and into the 20th century to falsely portraying the Confederate cause as heroic, then used the veneer of politeness to obscure one of the greatest human rights atrocities of all time.
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The Republican effort appears to have fallen flat; the National Republican Congressional Committee has canceled a large advertising purchase in the district, in a sign that it considers the Republican who now holds the seat, Kevin Yoder, a lost cause.
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In A TALE OF TWO MURDERS: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson (Pegasus Crime, $28.95), Laura Thompson earnestly champions the lost cause of Edith Thompson (no, she's no relation), a woman caught in an awkward moment of history.
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This is complicated because "Gone With the Wind" exists as one of the main pillars of the odious Lost Cause narrative, but it's also one of the pivotal books I read in childhood that helped shape me as a writer.
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" The statue debate provides a glimpse into how the Lees of today are reacting to what historians say has been a masterful propaganda campaign aimed at restoring and bolstering white supremacy in the South through the mythology of the "Lost Cause.
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This upcoming election may be a lost cause, but it's time to start rebuilding the party for a post-Trump world, to figure out what's next for those who oppose Trump but feel they have no one else to vote for.
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With every victory in the campaign against Confederate iconography in the public square — a flag removed from the South Carolina statehouse grounds, a Jefferson Davis statue taken down at the University of Texas — the Lost Cause seems weaker and less relevant.
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In January we heard Hillary Clinton repeat the old Lost Cause line that Reconstruction should have been less "rancorous" and more "forgiving" of former Confederates, gliding across the fact that this would have occurred at the expense of black people's freedom.
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But before that they must agree on something more basic: whether they want to engage with voters who do not share their views on such issues as abortion or climate change, or are ready to write them off as a lost cause.
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The trend toward writing Florida off as a lost cause hints at a very gross brand of elitism and classism that ignores the sense of humor, cultural bonds, and feeling of belonging that define what it means to feel like a Floridian.
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This was an era in which scholars reevaluated slavery and its role in causing the Civil War, teachers challenged the Lost Cause hagiography so predominant in museums and textbooks, and civil rights activists battled white supremacy in the streets and in the courts.
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When things went bad enough, usually around the All-Star Break, the team would realize contention was a lost cause, trade the players that wouldn't be coming back the following season for whatever prospects they could get, and let nature take its course.
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During this time, groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans built monuments that promoted the "Lost Cause" ideology -- the belief that states' rights, not slavery, was the Confederacy's principal cause, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Nadiya helpfully advised me to mix different colours together to get brown, but when I started mixing them on the cake itself — rather than in a bowl, as most normal humans might do — I think she wrote me off as a lost cause.
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Related: A Narco-Saint, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico Perhaps the hardest-hitting speech so far, however, was the Pope's ticking off of church leaders gathered to hear him in the Cathedral, also on Saturday.
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From efforts to depict slavery as a kind, gentle institution and secession as caused by constitutional questions, the Daughters assumed what historian Karen Cox has called a role of "vindication," which glorified the rightness of the "Lost Cause" -- and crusaded for white supremacy.
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During this time, groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans built monuments that promoted the "Lost Cause" ideology: the belief that states' rights, not slavery, was the Confederacy's principal cause, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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The generals say it's a lost cause and they should turn back; the prince wants to go for it; and Jamie, who's just trying to shake things up in the hopes of changing history, is the only one who will hear him out.
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But this wasn't done just through the Compromise of 1877, when the federal government pulled the last troops out of the South; it was also done by suppressing the rights of black Americans and elevating the so-called "Lost Cause" of the enslavers.
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The memorials that are slated to be relocated belong to the cult of the lost cause and were built to valorize a treasonous war that was fought to preserve slavery — and to essentially deify generals like Robert E. Lee who fought it.
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And the references to the greater Watchmen mythos are interesting to me as well — but perhaps more for that reason you mentioned of the "morbid" humor of, hey, this dude lives on Mars, because he thinks humans are a lost cause, y'all.
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When their team scored what would be their only goal of the game, the supporters chanted raucously for "the boys in brown," thrusting their pints in the air, none the wiser that it was, as it frequently has been, already a lost cause.
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The talk of forcing Mr. Trump from the ticket presumes something many Republicans are so far not willing to concede: That he is a lost cause whose self-destructive tendencies will make it impossible for him to beat Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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It has been widely reported that in January 2010, after Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority when Republican Scott Brown won a special election, many thought passing the Affordable Care Act, which was not going to get GOP votes, was a lost cause.
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To have a chance to win back the suburbs, which will increasingly determine state and national races, Republicans should reach out and make common cause with immigrants over shared values of hard work, family, and faith rather than write them off as a lost cause.
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Hurston conducted her work at a time when, since the 203s, American magazines had been publishing memoirs and stories by whites that made buying, transporting and selling Africans part of the same Lost Cause ideology that helped build Confederate monuments and generated textbooks glorifying slavery.
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Kelly's comments about Lee and compromise, for example, swiftly earned criticism from historians for relying on a "Lost Cause" framing of the conflict, which paints Lee as an honorable man simply fighting for his state, in a war born out of a failure to communicate.
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"Today marks the 187th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis; planter, soldier, statesman, President of the Confederate States of America, martyr to 'The Lost Cause,' and finally the gray-clad phoenix," Wilkie said at an event organized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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"I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause," Mr. Clapper said Tuesday in response to a question about whether negotiations with North Korea's leaders could lead to a suspension of the country's nuclear and missile activities.
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Both offer an unvarnished account of Mississippi's searing racial history, detailing the state's record number of lynchings, portraying its segregation-era leaders as the white supremacists they were and altogether dispatching with "the 'Lost Cause' of the failed Confederacy," as one display terms it.
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The gut-punch approach has left even some Republicans wincing over the spectacle of a former Republican National Committee chairman and New Jersey native trying to win with earnest vows to guard emblems of the Lost Cause and with warnings about menacing Hispanic gangs.
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This is what Better Call Saul has been building toward: a fifth season premiere where Jimmy, as Saul Goodman, erects a carnival tent in an empty lot, surrounded by people who he believes are lost causes who will eventually need a lost cause like himself.
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When the company insisted that everyone use SmartSpot, many studios felt they had no alternative because canceling their contracts would mean losing thousands of dollars of revenue each month, and we already know that marketing to CP users is a bit of a lost cause.
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When Bill Giguere lost his gold wedding band while hiking on a loop trail near Mt. Hancock, he knew finding it was probably a lost cause, but he posted about it online anyway, asking anyone who was hiking the trail to keep an eye out.
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America First has become historical footnote partly because it was a lost cause — interventionists decisively won the debate about World War II after Pearl Harbor — but also because anti-Semitism in the US became much less socially acceptable after the scope of the Holocaust was fully known.
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The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.
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The episode is based on the 2006 documentary A League of Ordinary Gentlemen and pokes gentle fun at the narrative into which players in "sports comeback" dramas are forced to fit themselves in order to get audiences interested — the bad boy, the nice guy, the lost cause.
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In March, however, following Conor Lamb's narrow victory in a Pennsylvania district that Trump won by nearly 20 percentage points, pundits argued that Lamb's careful, centrist positions helped win him the race—and that Democrats shouldn't write off more conservative Americans as a lost cause just yet.
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Whether the party can both energize minorities and attract a growing population of younger, urban multiracial and white voters, many of whom are drawn to Mr. Sanders, may determine how quickly the Democrats can resurface as competitive in places that now mostly feel like a lost cause.
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"It shall stand here on this busy corner of our city as a perpetual memorial to the character, valor and achievements of this matchless leader of our own Lost Cause," the mayor of Dallas said at the time, according to a copy of the dedication program.
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And while the French luxury behemoth may not be able to make air travel elegant again — that's probably a lost cause — in its first show in New York under the women's artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière, Vuitton made a pretty convincing argument for the currency of time travel.
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Though not as well known as the Lost Cause memorials the UDC built throughout the South—objects promoting a narrative that the Confederacy fought honorably for states' rights rather than slavery—the highway was intended to be a cross-country system of roads studded with markers memorializing Davis.
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But critics of the monuments, a movement most vocally led by black activists, note that this "Lost Cause" framing of history has long ignored that the war was truly fought to preserve slavery, a system of bondage that continues to affect African Americans 150 years after it was abolished.
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After Lee's death in 1870 when the venerated general was no longer around to defend his trusted lieutenant, Lost Cause adherents perpetrated a false story that Longstreet had deliberately disobeyed Lee's order to attack the Union lines at sunrise on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Democrats knew the nomination of a candidate such as Moore, who trails controversy and was backed by Stephen Bannon, Sarah Palin and others, can help them define Republicans nationally and on December 12 potentially pick up a Senate seat in Alabama they otherwise would have considered a lost cause.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.
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Visitors are confronted with two images and artifacts: a painting of the first elected black members of Congress; a painting of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, signifying Lost Cause nostalgia; and a set of well-preserved robes that belonged to a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The great waves of Confederate monument building took place in the 1890s, as the Confederacy was coming to be idealized as the so-called Lost Cause and the Jim Crow system was being fastened upon the South, and in the 1920s, the height of black disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching.
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But now that his lost cause of nearly 30 years ago has stirred back to life under President Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Nevzorov, 60, has a sobering message for a new generation of Russian nationalists: Don't get seduced by the poisonous fruits of imperial fantasy the way I did.
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The Daily Mail was the only big-selling newspaper to continue to champion the lost cause and, after a particularly foam-flecked leader about "the traitor in Downing Street", Viscount Rothermere stepped in to replace Paul Dacre with Geordie Greig, a sensible man as well as a good friend.
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With gay marriage becoming a lost cause for opponents - the Supreme Court ruled in June that same-sex couples have the right to marry - a new battleground has become a quest by conservatives in some states to allow people to refuse services to gay men and women on religious grounds. tinyurl.
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Supporters of the monuments argue that their removal would amount to an effort to "change history," regularly framing the Confederacy and the war it fought as being about states' rights and Southern heritage — a "Lost Cause" framing of history has long ignored that the war was truly fought to preserve slavery.
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"'States' rights' is a fundamental aspect of the 'Lost Cause' myth that was promoted in the late-19th and early-20th century to erase the African-American experience and historical memory of slavery and the Civil War," Dr. Shirley Thompson, a historian at the University of Texas writes in a statement.
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And as much as it might seem like a lost cause to understand the perspectives of people who may qualify as racist, understanding where they come from is a needed step to being able to speak to them in a way that will help reduce the racial biases they hold.
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It contributes to the sentiment on the left that these people in rural areas who voted for a perceived huckster and demagogue are a lost cause, that now that these people cast their lot with this man, it is beyond conceivable to engage with them, understand them and empathize with them.
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They're a lost cause for Trump if he's looking for any quick action on lifting sanctions — because some members of Congress, including many in Trump's own party, are much more hawkish toward Russia than Trump is and have even taken steps to try to hamstring Trump's ability to lift sanctions on Russia.
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While some Democrats have come to view white working-class voters as largely a lost cause for the party in the Trump era, other party strategists, including some affiliated with organized labor, have privately argued that the large number of staunchly conservative evangelical Christians in the group has overstated Democratic weakness among them.
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"The mitigation and adaptation recommendations in the report are something that I think people should focus attention on, because I want them to know that climate change isn't a lost cause," said former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, who served in the Obama administration and was not involved in the report.
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Earlier in that summer of '2613, when the Dodgers were on the brink of moving to Los Angeles and the New York Giants seemed headed to San Francisco, the Brooklyn-born comedian Phil Foster took up a lost cause with his rendition of "Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn" on Coral Records.
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In fact, this culture of white supremacy — which many portray as having gained steam in the Obama era and become mainstreamed in the Trump era, has never left many localities where the biased values of the past, fostered by the Lost Cause movement, have been enshrined in public statuary, policies, and practices.
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That there was this sort of, you know, if you google lost cause, it comes up that the war that was lost was like a noble one, a heroic one, and a lot of that in part of inspired by the conciliatory speech that Robert E. Lee made when he was announcing defeat.
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The amendment, which guarantees that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex," passed Congress on a bipartisan basis in 1972, became a culture war battleground, and then, until last year, lay dormant, presumed to be a lost cause.
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In the decades after the Civil War, as part of the myth of the Lost Cause that glorified the Confederacy and emphasized states' rights rather than slavery as the cause of the war, many white southerners chose to portray Forrest as a military hero, thus excusing or ignoring Forrest's buying and selling of human beings.
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Many of the issues had been building for years, but were now freshly volatile in the wake of the violence that exploded Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. Suddenly, it seemed, the questions of what to do with the roughly 700 remaining statues and monuments to the Lost Cause had come in for perhaps their hardest reckoning.
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"These four monuments were put up well after the Civil War was over by an organization called the Cult of the Lost Cause for one purpose, which was to whitewash the Confederacy and intimidate everybody in New Orleans about who was still in control even after the Confederacy lost the war," Landrieu told BuzzFeed.
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Well, I don't know if the answer is necessarily within the games industry... AAA seems like a lost cause, and amongst the non-AAA community, there has generally been a sentiment of 'Things Are Wrong,' but in terms of action by people, things have felt conservative—both in games' content, as well as consumers, creators and the media's actions.
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"If it were a lost cause, I wouldn't be defending him," lead attorney José Refugio Rodríguez Nuñes told CNN In Brooklyn, Guzman and other cartel leaders were indicted in 2009 on charges of conspiring to import more than 23,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States between 1990 and 2005, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
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Rieff includes a sobering reminder that for a long time American memory cherished the Confederate South's "lost cause" and incited new violence, but it would be remarkable to conclude from this example that people should strive to forget the whole sordid episode rather than to debate with one another about how to remember it most justifiably.
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"We are weighing in - negatively - with our assessment of what we expect will be the strategic rationale for the deal (positioning Disney better to compete in the OTT space) … In our view, Disney is committing significant capital to the lost cause of protecting video aggregation margins," analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a note to clients Thursday.
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Attached to the report is a community action guide that helps community members to organize around issues of removal, rather than being forced to live around symbols glorifying the terrible legacy of slavery, or those which promote "Lost Cause" mythology that attempts to revise the notion that slavery was the instigating factor in the secession of the Confederate states.
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During Reconstruction, in the decades-long aftermath of the American Civil War, Southern elites (my ancestors included) built gleaming monuments to glorify the heroes of what they referred to as the "lost cause" of the Confederacy; we still cannot decide what should become of these divisive works of public art, over a century since their creation.
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Some suggest America needs a national conversation for racial harmony to move past the Confederate "lost cause" narrative — a revisionist account that glorifies and justifies the role of the South in the Civil War and downplays the role of slavery -- and a truth and reconciliation commission similar to what South Africa used to address its own racist history.
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But I guess the point I wanted to make is, the people who believe that this heritage, this southern way of life — which, by the way, includes the minimization and marginalization of people of color, black people and anyone else that's not white — are part of this larger group that really believes in this lost cause, the Confederacy.
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Their teacher, meanwhile, deliberately sets them against each other as friendly rivals, because she can see that they motivate one another to do better — and when it becomes clear to her that Lila is a lost cause, that her parents will not allow her to go to middle school, she drops Lila, and encourages Elena to do the same.
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Related: A Narco-Saint, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico Esper said it's also a comfort to remember that dengue fever and chikungunya, which are similar mosquito-borne diseases that are found in Central and South America, have not really gained a foothold in the United States, despite occasional outbreaks in places like Florida.
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Biden is probably not going to run around explicitly pitching himself as the Democrat who is best suited to appeal to Lost Cause mythos (though he did once brag that Delaware was a slave state), but the idea that he's better suited than the rest of the field to win back Trump voters in the Midwest is an integral element of his proto-candidacy.
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Game after game, Bron goes out and kills himself for the lost cause of all lost causes, snakes passes through defenders, powers down dunks, does everything he can to keep himself rested and keep his team close, and game after game he is subjected to the pure manifestation of modernity itself pressing a boot onto his forehead and keeping him away from ultimate victory.
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"There was a really big systematic push to promote the history of the Confederacy and the so-called ''lost cause' that was largely engineered by women's groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which had a very overt and systematic plan to rewrite textbooks, to erect public monuments that would establish the 'true' history of the war," said Kirk Savage, an expert on Confederate monuments and their role in collective memory.
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I will reclaim my time, I will regenerate my health, I will absolutely make you proud of me to see me go from the girl on the stand who talked about her shame and feeling like a lost cause – to becoming a woman who has found happiness, who can live in joy, who is free, who will go on to live a life so incredible no human will ever fear they are beyond redemption, or harnessed to the shame of their past.
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But my decision-making is still subject to the same instincts that made me look at the New Jersey Nets—then getting blown out by the Bucks in an empty building marooned in North Jersey's gassy marshland, then owned by a squabbling gaggle of defective North Jersey swells who could turn an attempt to order dinner in a family style restaurant into three separate and extremely acrimonious lawsuits—and think Yes, This Is For Me. I could tell you more about why I did this sort of thing, or why I continue to do it, or I can just keep going over it with my therapist, but the salient point is that I looked at what was objectively a lost cause—this basketball team, and the decision to invest my heart in it—and saw a cause, full stop.
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