Sentence examples for doomed enterprises from inspiring English sources

We all know that record stores are doomed enterprises in this, the era of the download.

He was an innovator of a different kind during his time as Industry Minister in 1974-76, when he sponsored several attempts to preserve doomed enterprises by helping the employees to convert them into workers' co-operatives.

When he returned, a haunted man, he took to the bottle and embarked on various doomed enterprises until finally he drank it all away.

He has a keen eye – as always – for the countryside and for small towns and for good pubs and for doomed enterprises and for the absurdities of local government and its readiness to swallow hook, line and sinker the nonsense of consultants and developers who have gone a long way to destroy many towns.

His heroes -- thickish, lumpen, their bodies cast forward against the perpetually adversarial universe -- are small-time businessmen or artists in doomed enterprises: a man who wants to carbonate Lake Erie, a "radiator musician" who performs steam lullabies on apartment radiators and whose career is shattered when a warm spell causes the boiler to be turned off.

This looked like a doomed enterprise.

I soon realized this was a doomed enterprise.

So does she see marriage as a doomed enterprise?

"It's a gloriously doomed enterprise," he acknowledged.

Searching for one's "inner self" is, she believes, a doomed enterprise.

The story of this quixotic, dangerous and inevitably doomed enterprise is grippingly – and humorously – told.