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"You had two faces," the prosecutor Nanette Rogers said, after making Erin read aloud expletive-laden Facebook messages in which she had called Simon a "deadbeat" and his parents "a lost cause".

Staniforth knew challenging Bronze - who started off as a striker in football - to a running race was a lost cause, but keepy-up battles were a good way to compete.

But he said that after moments of fighting the inferno, they knew it was a lost cause and a decision was made to abandon the ship.

Roger Diamond made a career out of challenging authority and championing lost causes — sometimes changing the law in the process.

Moreover, in what originally seemed like a lost cause, you have somehow managed to not only salvage but maintain and then incredibly, enhance the reputation of my principal in China.