Sentence examples for doomed bid from inspiring English sources

He then launched a doomed bid to sue the station he once owned.

Falconieri painstakingly pieces together the events surrounding his hero's doomed bid in a narrative that reads like an adventure story.

His tens of millions almost single-handedly kept alive former House speaker Newt Gingrich's doomed bid for the White House.

Or witness the poor conflicted people who turn to so-called conversion therapy in a doomed bid to be straight.

Even though Mr Raffarin is deputy leader of Alain Madelin's free-market Liberal Democracy party, he chose not to support his doomed bid for the presidency.

This was seen by liberal critics as a doomed bid to revive a romantic vision of white settlement in the 18th century.

His lack of focus, along with a disastrous television interview with journalist Roger Mudd, doomed his bid as much Chappaquiddick, historians say.

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday defended his handling of a contentious and ultimately doomed $12 billion bid by the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch to take control of Britain's most powerful and lucrative pay-television network, and offered new backing to an embattled cabinet minister who had pushed energetically for the bid's approval.

Page A4 CAMERON DEFENDS ACTIONS Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain defended his handling of a contentious and ultimately doomed $12 billion bid by the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch to take control of the country's most powerful and lucrative pay-television network.

There was a brief, unhappy marriage to Paul Simon, she reminds us, and an affair with, among many others, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who said of their relationship, "It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" — a remark that Ms. Fisher thinks probably doomed his bid for the presidency.

She has run a disciplined campaign to avoid the missteps that doomed her bid to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass).