Watching at home, we knew he was bound to fail – Ramsay doesn't start a game unless the odds are stacked in his favour – and yet a small part of me couldn't help but will Jon on, hoping against hope that he'd get to his brother in time.
When you have systems with lots of moving parts, he said, some of them are bound to fail.
In that sense, the national security state is it's own worst enemy – it's bound to fail".
I think it's bound to fail.
If it's only directed at inner city young people, it's bound to fail.
Rieff believes they are bound to fail.
The efforts of socialist planners, he argued, were bound to fail, because they could not do what the free market's price system could: aggregate the poorly codified knowledge that implicitly guides the behavior of market participants.
He denounced what he described as an effort by the Qaddafi government to provoke a tribal conflict, which he said was bound to fail.
The school revolution he leads is bound to fail, but boy is it exhilarating while it lasts.
"The bigoted way in which some politicians have dealt with Islam," he concludes, is bound to fail.
Also writing from Istanbul, Behlül Özkan slams the "kamikaze coup attempt" that he thinks was bound to fail, but says, "Turkey is now in the midst of a national security crisis" and that Erdogan's tactics for holding on to power by, "forming temporary, strategic alliances cannot solve" it.
