Sentence examples for doomed push from inspiring English sources

Aside from an energetic, if doomed, push for an immigration agreement with President George W. Bush's administration, he trundled along in a haze of frivolity, punctuated by a streak of malevolence he displayed by trying to block a popular leftist, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, from even running for president.

The moving climax depicts the Battle of the Nek, a doomed push against the Turkish trenches by the 8th and 10th Light Horse.

Last Monday, within hours of the massacre in Orlando, shares of Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger jumped 10percentt, even before Senate Democrats had a chance to mount their doomed push for new limits on gun sales; a week later, Florida gun retailers were reporting that sales of semi-automatic rifles had quadrupled.

Fighting a lifelong battle against obesity made me feel like Sisyphus, the character from Greek mythology who was doomed to push a rock up near the top of a hill, only to have it go back down the hill.

That is because the various player-controlled characters, including the brothers themselves, bounce off one another to their doom, push one another off ledges and shove one another into killer monsters.

In 1976 his film "Sisyphus," a short-form masterpiece about the doomed, boulder-pushing king, was among the nominees for an Academy Award; the next year his "Kuzdok" ("The Struggle") won the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes.

But the details in the intelligence committee's report, coupled with the intense focus on Russia's hacking of Democratic emails, could doom the push for a pardon.

It cannot cope with all this positive attention and support, and is doomed to keep pushing people away and resorting to self-harming.

That's the hard part for me anyway, thinking that there's no way, that the project is doomed, and continuing to push through that feeling.

If progressives keep lying to themselves about their past, they are doomed to continue to push the same failed policies of the corporate wing of the Democratic party, exemplified by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Jamelle Bouie is probably doing the best job identifying the source of all this "polarity" in his latest piece over at the Plum Line, titled, "Obama's voting reform push is doomed (because it would mean more Dem votes)." The simple fact is that non- and infrequent voters skew Democratic, and voting reform is a sure way to bring those people into the electorate and make them regular voters.