| One must therefore reject the notion that an argument for celibacy is a futile gesture, foredoomed to failure. |
| The effort was foredoomed because the times were chaotic, and the contending princes were interested not in humane government but in power. |
| The quest for some distillation of musical meaning may be foredoomed to failure. |
| Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture. |
| In furtherance of this idea, the administration last year poured financial and political resources into a foredoomed mission of passing three Police Reform Bills. |
| A car bomb was foredoomed to failure, since winding security roads had been set up outside the gate of the base, and the US military is ready for that sort of attack. |
