foredoom

Croucher described the planned voyage by men with no experience of boats as a trip “foredoomed to failure.”

Judges' comments: "A heartbreaking exploration of lives at the margins of society, mobilising fiercely inventive characters whose lives seem mostly to have been foredoomed."

His mix of economic populism and deliberate racial polarization was supposed to be demographically foredoomed — but instead it won him precisely those regions Trende’s analysis had highlighted, and the presidency as well.

“If researchers start stuffing their bad code into a container and pass it on, we are foredoomed to failure.”

Outraged, Castro plotted for a year, then led a band of some 40 men in a foredoomed frontal attack against Santiago’s Moncada barracks.