0 someone or something that has no chance of succeeding:
1 something that cannot be achieved:
A portable implementation for call/cc using the natural mapping is a lost cause.
It accepts that some formulations of the doctrine are a lost cause.
Those who try to resist going into such villages are also fighting a lost cause.
Or why they so strongly imply that any presumption of long-term action for a better world is likely to be a lost cause?
These results demonstrate that while the urban areas presented more of a challenge for the governing party, they were by no means a lost cause.
I am afraid that is a lost cause.
One vociferous defence of a lost cause was the exception.
I am convinced that they are in some degree defending a lost cause.
