Sentence examples for doomed battle from inspiring English sources
But I wonder how long William Travis's doomed battle cry against the attacking Mexicans, "Victory or death!," will continue to resonate in a state where Caucasians today represent a declining minority and Latinos alone, never mind African-Americans, are projected to constitute a majority of Texans by 2030.
(And why should a pessimist's negative thoughts "bring about his own destruction" through fighting rather than diplomacy? Isn't an optimist just as likely to throw himself into doomed battle?) And while the humanists among us may wish it so, how can we confirm that natural selection tends to preserve "altruism, fidelity, bonding and those qualities that are all part and parcel of mature love"?
Just to the north was Yorkshire, whose miners had followed Arthur Scargill into his doomed battle with Margaret Thatcher.
As the LTTE fought its final, doomed battle, 112 ex-fighters arrived there, fresh from combat, aged between 14 and 29.Tall and thin, a young man with fragile features is summoned by army officers.
He nurtured young talent like Vic Feather, thus enabling the future general secretary of the TUC to dismiss Barbara, when she was Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity fighting her doomed battle for trade union reform, as 'a lass he knew when she was still in dirty knickers'.
For example: the 11-strong team of detectives charged with identifying murderers in ancient Rome; the 11-strong vice squad of women established by the Spartan state to keep a lid on Dionysiac orgies; or the 11-monstrous giant-beasts who assisted Tiamat, lord of chaos in his doomed battle against the pantheon of Babylon led by the king of the gods, Marduk.
The French have always hoped to see the EU evolve into a powerful block that can stand up to the United States; the British are horrified by such an idea.Common groundSo are the two countries doomed to battle for ever?
So far, Verio has accumulated enormous debt ($280.2 million) and seems doomed to fight a battle in the soon-to-be commodity land of bandwidth the next century's pork bellies.
OF course, most people aren't built for public confrontation, fearing an awkward moment or perhaps a fist in the face, which is why people like Ms. Alkon are probably doomed to fight a losing battle.
"The limits on Mexico's autonomy in these matters are not small," Luis Astorga, an expert on crime at Mexico City's National Autonomous University, notes wryly.Until America substantively changes its drug policy, Mexico's policymakers, capable though they may be, seem doomed to fight a losing battle.
The anti-corruption campaign driven by Xi over the past few years appears to be a highly political, quixotic battle doomed to failure.
