Sentence examples for doomed almost from inspiring English sources

The initiative, however, was doomed almost from the outset.

But this time, he seemed doomed almost from the start.

And add a nice little sponsorship?" Officials from Fox and ABC-ESPN said they had sensed they were doomed almost as soon as they left the cocktail party that followed the placement of their bids Friday afternoon.

No one designs a skyscraper to withstand the direct hit of a fully fueled 767, and construction engineers agree that such an attack would have doomed almost any high-rise.

Morris recounts his battle first to wrest control of his party from Taft and the conservatives and, when that failed (only because of "naked robbery" by "the forces of reaction," Roosevelt insisted), to lead a third-party campaign he understood to be doomed almost from the start.

The fact that the Oscar telecast is a bust, that it is doomed — almost designed — to be a bust, and that the varying degrees of bustness are all that separates one year from the next, should neither surprise nor even dismay us, because the Academy Awards are like teen-age sex.

It is also a description of how engineering, technical and human flaws conspired to doom almost 3,000 people.

But most of these would have been doomed under almost any circumstances.

In Puritan moral theology, the young, like the old, were sinners doomed by almost insurmountable odds to perdition.

The turnstile is certainly technologically advanced, but, like many defense-industry marvels, this contraption is doomed to almost immediate obsolescence: the transit authority plans to replace tokens with MetroCards by 1997.

Grime has a trend of using sound effects within the drum patterns, and Doom almost sounded like a grime track (with no particular rhythm) when you played it.