If indeed surrounded the Dutch would have been in a hopeless position.

Only once before had he been in such a hopeless position.

Of course all that had happened seemed at the time to have placed me in an utterly hopeless position.

After 44 Qa7, he gave up his hopeless position.

Has any one-day international been won from a more hopeless position?

He had been in a hopeless position on clay before, just three years earlier.

A hopeless position, to be followed by a terrible death.

The men with us did not attempt to resist, for they were in a hopeless position.

At 4.30 the force, being in a perfectly hopeless position, laid down their arms.

He never allowed himself to be maneuvered into a hopeless position.