Sentence examples for bound to frustrate from inspiring English sources

The leasing proposals were also bound to frustrate officials in Alaska – who have pushed for more drilling – as well as the oil industry.

Gehry's grand staircase is a playful surface bound to frustrate any egotistical architect or business student trying to check their figure in the reflection.

Most are doable, but some are bound to frustrate (readers are sent to the rabbit hole of www.epa.gov to learn waste reduction tips, rather than to a more specific U.R.L).

In the years ahead, Mr. Crocker sees, if anything, an increasingly fraught foreign landscape in a world set afire by war and revolution, a chapter bound to frustrate the best intentions and most sophisticated strategies of the United States.

It is a longing bound to be frustrated.

The attempt of each to do so is bound to be frustrated.

Given the generosity of the program and the candlepower onstage, one almost feels guilty complaining that its quantity was not entirely matched by quality, or that Carnegie's vastness is so antithetical to the chamber music experience that expectations of subtlety or interpretive magic were bound to be frustrated.

For all the polite noises emanating from Team Sky after the Vuelta in 2011 and the Tour de France in 2012, Froome's second places in both events are bound to have frustrated him, although he was diplomatic when quizzed on this.

Ian Poulter bogeyed four of the last five holes - he was bound to get frustrated.

Philosophers looking for the nature of truth are bound to be frustrated, the deflationist says, because they are looking for something that isn't there.

But the reader who wants to understand Marcus' thought as a whole is bound to be frustrated; sometimes reading Marcus feels like reading the lines of Hamlet's Polonius.