He may have outdone the CIA in noting the burden of military spending on the Soviet economy, but he also saw the doomed state as an enduring menace.
Sending out more water from the Missouri would doom states upstream, such as Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota, which depend on water from the Missouri and are also caught in the drought.
That provision, Justice Kagan wrote, doomed the state law.
Though ingenious and witty and a fine teller of contemporary quips and quirks, Mr. Neate is closer to the Cassandra of a doomed city-state.
By a historical quirk, this hugely oversubscribed school selects, via the 11-plus, around 20 children from Islington who might otherwise be doomed to state education in her own borough.
Anything that helps give the working or middle class a fair chance at helping America succeed is branded the socialist machinations of a doomed welfare state.
She has a one-track mind, to the point of selfishness – she barely manages to fake interest in "the Cause", the southern US states' doomed stand against the Yankees.
Such progress, though modest, undermines arguments that Haiti's problems are so deeply rooted in its culture as to doom any state-building effort to failure — a mirror image of the claim that the country bears no responsibility for its own plight.
The bills the governor signed will probably be challenged in court, including a law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges with a local hospital, which could doom the state's lone abortion provider, the Red River Women's Clinic.
And ever since the political balance shifted, conservatives have declared the state doomed.
