Sentence examples for disaster doomed from inspiring English sources

We rarely heed the lessons of history; otherwise the South Sea Bubble of 1720 would have been a one-off, rather than a disaster doomed to be replicated again and again.

Their critiques vary — some of them see the war as a series of tactical blunders, others as a strategic disaster doomed from the start — but on one point the Pentagon Six are unanimous: Please.

In the early 90's, the pendulum of received opinion swung again, and divorce was depicted as an unmitigated disaster, dooming children to repeat their parents' marital failures.

A rocket's failure early this morning to carry the Earth-observing satellite Glory into orbit shocked engineers, who saw the same sort of disaster doom another climate satellite in 2009.

They're the disruptive, disreputable interlopers at the party, pointed towards disaster and doomed to meet a bloody end.

Professor Peter Barrett, of New Zealand University predicts in 2004 that if we do not change, ecological catastrophe and climate disasters will doom us by the end of the 21st century.

Iraq was almost universally acknowledged to have been a disaster, Afghanistan a doomed undertaking.

According to Air Marshal Errol McCormack, an F-111 pilot who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff, the system was a "disaster" that was doomed to failure owing to the relatively small size of the RAAF's F-111 fleet.

We've been doomed to disaster, he asserts, ever since F.D.R. took us off the gold standard and introduced deposit insurance.

So he embarks on a mission to woo unwitting maid Mia Wasikowska – an enterprise that seems doomed to disaster given Nobbs's lack of obvious charms.

And for that reason virtually every feature-length Poe movie, no matter how cleverly it tries to expand, attenuate or embellish its original, is, if not doomed to disaster, at least courting it pretty aggressively.