Sunday papers as we know them are, I believe, doomed.
The president avoided the kind of gloating that his advisers believe doomed the Republicans after they captured the House and Senate in 1994.
Religious "healing meetings" can be.This one was called the Jesus Miracle Crusade, an appropriate enough event for a man most experts believe doomed to defeat, barring divine intervention, or all-too-human fraud.
Parnassus, many believed, was doomed to the same fate as his Don Quixote movie, which so far has made it to the screen only as the subject of Lost in La Mancha, a documentary chronicling the production's descent into chaos – courtesy of biblical weather, the ageing lead's ill health and the Spanish air force conducting exercises near the set.
The present world, the Maya believed, is doomed to end in cataclysms as the other worlds have done previously.
In a scant 17 months, Mr. Holbrooke has made himself an unapologetically assertive proponent of American interests at the United Nations, pulling off some feats that many diplomats believed were doomed to fail.
Friends and colleagues say that the single-minded goal of Mr. Denvir, 57, and Ms. Clarke, 45, is to save Mr. Kaczynski from the death penalty and that the lawyers would be unlikely to participate in a defense they believed was doomed to fail.
Edin's own snow trek up to Grebak is slotted into his prolonged narrative of how he and Gorazde fared from the end of peace in 1992 to August 1995, when British peacekeepers evacuated the town, leaving their camp to be scavenged by the townsfolk, who believed themselves doomed by the desertion: actually, the departure cued the saviour air strikes.
Five days later he helped "Norn Iron" to a 1 1 draw with Honduras, which was a disappointment, and many believed had doomed Northern Ireland's chances of advancing in the competition.
Led by Phelps, church members thanked God for roadside explosive devices and prayed for thousands more casualties, calling the deaths of military personnel killed in the Middle East a divine punishment for a nation it believed was doomed by its tolerance for gay people.
