Sentence examples for doomed venture from inspiring English sources

But Mr King likens the eagerness to adopt macroprudential policy to the doomed venture of prices and wages controls in the 1970s.

After it ended Basil moved around trying one doomed venture after another in a bid to make money and retain status.

The painful truth is that, unless America's next president makes reaching a final Doha agreement and getting that deal through Congress a top priority, the Geneva framework will be nothing more than an "historic" breakthrough on a doomed venture.

In 1998 Butch put his own savings into what everyone said was a doomed venture; he started a company called Imvelo ("nature" in Ndebele) and built a safari lodge, Gorges, on communal land outside Victoria Falls national park and made it policy to only employ locals.

It's like trying to ride a unicycle on top of an airplane, or a pogo stick on top of a train, which strikes me as an especially doomed venture, and I actually laugh aloud before clapping my hand over my mouth.

The doomed venture involved Scotland investing a large proportion of its wealth in setting up a colony in Central America in 1698.

That's how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures".

On Tuesday, All Nippon said ineffective marketing, a poorly designed Web site and poor customer service had doomed the venture.

Alas, la Hurley, as ever, doomed the venture by being so bad she was bad, and Regan's eyes flashed so unmistakably with the message "Call my agent!

Making even incremental reductions to military benefits is typically a doomed political venture, given the public's broad support for helping troops, the political potency of veterans groups and the fact that significant savings take years to appear.

The doomed joint venture to create a chain of out-of-town Best Buy UK electricals stores, selling everything from kettles to computers, followed two years later but met its end this week after failing to turn a profit.