0 (especially of planned activities) going to fail, or extremely unlucky from the beginning:
This foredoomed him to a productivity theory of interest - the very thing he had attempted to avoid.
These electoral campaigns, particularly that for the presidency, created a hostile political environment which may have foredoomed the vaccination bill.
At this point its obsolescence was foredoomed.
The search for it is as foredoomed as the quest for perpetual motion.
Any attempt to enforce a policy of sanctions was foredoomed to failure; you might as well have expected a sieve to hold water.
Any attempt to do so in this 20th century is foredoomed to failure.
A national or parochial outlook is foredoomed to failure.
That is why all attempts to escape from the dilemma and the conundrum by reducing the representation are foredoomed to failure.