Sentence examples for doomed undertaking from inspiring English sources

An eight-week commitment seems like a vastly unmanageable and essentially doomed undertaking at the moment, so I thought I'd save myself the pain of adding another failure to my ever-growing list.

Iraq was almost universally acknowledged to have been a disaster, Afghanistan a doomed undertaking.

His journey to the Lafayette festival, a possibly doomed undertaking, signals the beginning of a healthier relationship with Tom and serves as a metaphor for Murdo's emerging selfhood.

Socially educating people not to seek happiness through excessive consumption will be a huge and possibly doomed undertaking, however many times it is shown that it can't buy you happiness.

Quickly summing up the plot of "Arcadia" is as doomed an undertaking as solving the riddles of the universe before breakfast.

Yet some projects have been too sensitive, difficult or doomed for him to undertake.

The worst of the bunch featured easily punctured deceptions, shameless exploitation of tragedies real and imagined, and desperate measures undertaken by justifiably doomed competitors.

It could be argued that no matter what reforms are undertaken, they are doomed to failure if decision makers are not confident enough to set priorities or are not aware of tools to help them in this regard.

The entire undertaking, however, was doomed from the outset given the well-documented false pretenses underpinning their arguments, inept leadership by the Coalition Provisional Authority, and rampant corruption of private contractors who operated with impunity, all with deadly consequences for the Iraqi population.

That kind of illogical disconnect, James Zogby argues in "Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters," dooms much of what the United States is undertaking in the Middle East.

A century ago, such an undertaking would have seemed less obviously doomed.