Sentence examples for doomed effort from inspiring English sources

I invite Evans to mock this doomed effort.

It was a masterful, if ultimately doomed, effort that required both precision and coordination.

He says he is determined to stay, but believes it is ultimately a doomed effort.

So is that cage built to last or will it fall apart, shown up as an increasingly desperate and ultimately doomed effort to control the uncontrollable?

Faris's trademark is the power-through: after her character has done something incredibly stupid or embarrassing, she doubles down, gamely swinging a fist to rally a doomed effort.

An unfinished early work called "Project for a Scientific Psychology" was his strenuous, doomed effort to give a physiological source to the psychological phenomena he was discovering).

Similar tactics have doomed efforts to rein in spending on dozens of other Medicare items, as well.

In past years, he allowed, he spent $26,000 on dubious and doomed efforts to secure a green card.

The deal they have struck has the potential to end the stand-off that doomed efforts to sign a global deal in Copenhagen in 2009.

And some argue that both the Clinton and Bush administrations should have acted sooner to steer Argentina away from its doomed efforts to defend a 1-to-1 peg of its peso to the dollar.

Paul put himself in the middle of a number of fights that seemed impossible, and which sometimes turned out to be doomed efforts.