They knew victory against Sam Allardyce's side - in his last game after it was revealed his West Ham contract would not be renewed - would condemn Hull City to relegation to the Championship.
To turn these vulnerable people out of subsidized housing would condemn many to homelessness or to life in buildings not fit for habitation.
Cubans who fled their homeland, including President Fidel Castro's daughter, told Congress today that returning 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to Cuba would condemn him to a life of repression.
They were expelled from the postwar coalition government, subjected to frenzied propaganda (Pope Pius XI declared that voting communist would condemn one to eternal damnation), and held responsible for repressive acts in the USSR which they felt compelled to justify.
7.43am BST Defeat for England would condemn them to a first whitewash under Stuart Lancaster.
Krauthammer viewed this as a self-defeating choice that would condemn Republicans to failure in the general election.
Furthermore, it would condemn Libya to being not only a pariah state, but a failed state too.
Public-health officials retort that this would condemn millions to misery or death from a preventable disease.
"Mr. Schundler would condemn New Jersey to happenstance and the whim of the development community," Mr. McGreevey said.
"The developing countries have no need for protectionist policies that would condemn them to permanent poverty," Mr. Bush said.
