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Discover LudwigThe phrase "doomed attempt" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an effort or action that is destined to fail or has very little chance of success. Example: Despite his determination, John's attempt to climb the treacherous mountain in the middle of a blizzard was a doomed attempt.
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One is about Alice's doomed attempt to assimilate into the Ziplinskys and her husband's ultimate betrayal.
Much of the latter half dramatizes Soares's doomed attempt to gain control over her park project.
But many of the establishment media's worst habits arise from the doomed attempt to pursue both of them at once.
Murder: The Third Voice was a brave and utterly doomed attempt at a new subgenre of crime drama.
It was surely Bush's decision, after the 2004 election, to spend political capital by launching the grand, doomed attempt to privatize the Social Security program.
But the most thrilling tale belongs to Sweden, and Salomon Andrée's doomed attempt to fly a balloon from Spitsbergen to the North Pole in 1896.
Before long, Mourinho was being pictured kicking a ball around gravely with Shimon Perez in an – apparently doomed – attempt to summon peace in the Middle East.
Alvy introduces his story as an autopsy, a re-examination of his life and behaviour, and a doomed attempt to find out why his relationship with Annie failed.
Elstone had told the public inquiry into Everton's doomed attempt to build a new stadium in Kirkby that Harris was not involved in efforts to sell the club.
So why is another, almost certainly doomed, attempt to stand in the way of full equality receiving so much political and media attention?
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