a counsel of despair

"Those who criticize it are really saying no police strategy will work, which is somewhat a counsel of despair."

This distinguishes the criminal problem from the civil, but it sounds like a counsel of despair.

A counsel of despair was offered for many years, which, in effect, said, 'put them away and forget them'.

"I see that as a counsel of despair."

But this is a counsel of despair; an admission that our country is past praying for.

Perhaps it's my incorrigible maleness, but this strikes me as a counsel of despair.

(19) Not to build because we are short of doctors or staff would be a counsel of despair.

To suggest that a re-reading is the only option open to us is a counsel of despair.

This is a counsel of despair.

It seemed like a counsel of despair at the time, both romantic and irresponsible in its apparent disregard for the harsh realities of power politics.

Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is?

By anchoring prejudices in the unconscious, Ms. Young-Bruehl might seem to offer a counsel of despair.

That would seem a counsel of despair, a negation of all our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe.

01 Jan 2012 Ed Miliband: Coalition offers only a counsel of despair

"A Counsel of Despair: British Strategy and War Aims, 1917-18."

But, while we must temper optimism with realism, equally, we must be wary of those who preach a counsel of despair.

Dr. Jules Hirsch, an obesity expert at Rockefeller University in Manhattan, called bariatric surgery "a counsel of despair."

They argued that 'to surrender the initiative everywhere and to concentrate on a policy of purely passive defence along the whole battle line was a counsel of despair.'

Since nothing in the book has prepared us for this upbeat ending, it comes across as a counsel of despair: if this is what is takes to save us, we are in fact doomed.

The opponents' position that the court should strike down the law without giving it a chance to work was "a counsel of despair," Seth P. Waxman, the Congressional sponsors' lawyer, told the court.

This might seem like a counsel of despair, but in fact Elsasser was not calling for the abandonment of biology as a worthwhile research arena, but rather for a different kind of biology where molecular causal chains are no longer the main focus of study.