Sentences with foredoom
fore·doom
F f - Of course, the gaining of this knowledge foredooms the recipient to an eternal and compulsive lust for more.
- The state's intelligence mechanisms are constrained by a larger structural and ideological environment and by the inherent irrationality of a foreign policy which foredooms any effort to base action on informed insight to a chimera.
- So the program is foredoomed from the start.
- The attempt to resurrect capitalism in Russia foredooms it to the role of a second-rate power.
- One must therefore reject the notion that an argument for celibacy is a futile gesture, foredoomed to failure.
- Perhaps the most visible impact of this process of routinisation is a lack of sensitivity and engagement that foredooms many programmes to failure.
- Some texts say that God wants everyone to be saved, while others say that God foredooms people to damnation.
- The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass.
- Inadequate preparation results in incompetent workmanship and that foredooms one to failure.
- Most ‘premarital counseling’ is too short and surface-level to change the interpersonal ineptness and emotional deafness that foredooms millions of marriages to failure.
- For the strident opposition to gun ownership that characterizes the antigun lobby foredooms the cooperation that is essential if better controls are to be enacted and obeyed.
- 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.
- The Confederacy was probably foredoomed at its birth.
- Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
- Biology is no guarantee of a happy parental experience, and adoption doesn't foredoom one to an unhappy experience.
- Being outgunned need not foredoom you to being outfought.
- It is one thing to say that the population pressures may harm some human individuals; it is a very different thing indeed to say that they foredoom to failure all devices for improving the lot of the great mass of mankind.
- To require the accused to show that the conduct of his or her defence was prejudiced would foredoom any application for even the most modest remedy where the material has not been produced.