In truth, this approach may have been doomed since widespread fighting erupted on May 13th after a presumed army sniper picked off General Khattiya Sawasdipol, a rogue officer who ran the red shirts' security.
Rather than championing multicultural integration - which is doomed, since many of us prefer to be around those who are similar to us - Baggini suggests we adopt a position of toleration.
With the support of between a quarter and a third of the electorate, Russia's Communists have been doomed since the Soviet collapse a decade ago to a vocal, but seemingly permanent minority in Russian politics.
"I've pretty much been doomed since I got here," said Kyle Busch, who inherited some of the ill will that his brother had earned over the years with aggressive driving.
Writing late in his life to his daughter, he identified "procrastination," which he linked with unpardonable guilt, as "that most odious of vices": the procrastinator is doomed, since "in midst of too-soonness he shall suffer the killing anxieties of too-lateness".
Such optimism is baffling to some people in the storage industry, who say privately that they consider Veritas to be doomed, since it is too small to compete against the hardware giants encircling it and too big to be acquired.
So the fear is that in the long term even the rolling mills at Florange are doomed.Since the first blast furnace closed last summer the workers have been mounting periodic protests in Florange and (occasionally) in Paris.
He postulated that the Transylvanian cause was doomed, and, since the Germans were poised to win the war, constituted "a union of the losers"; instead, he urged Romania to take Bessarabia as the spoils of war.
The Booker-Christie-Zuckerberg strategy was doomed, he said, since it included no systemic assault on poverty.
I can see why Greeks are strongly tempted by this option and are looking hard at the example of a country like Argentina, which defaulted in 2003 (I think), was told it was doomed, and has since then been the fastest-growing country in a fast-growing continent.
