Twenty years of hatred, and now Dunild was hurling his life away on a futile charge in a doomed battle.

I still remember the long heroism of the resistance, the doomed battle for freedom-but now I see it from the opposite view as well, a pointless and wasteful war fought for no reason but stubbornness.

Although my camera-maddened friend was fighting a doomed battle, with aesthetic high principle on her side and the mob tyranny of "oh, come off it" on ours, I know what she was trying to protect.

In terrible pain, and all alone, fighting a doomed battle.

Ambitious men can see opportunity where others see only a doomed battle against a popular incumbent.

He then flees with his remaining supporters to Eger; Max Piccolomini throws himself into a doomed battle with the Swedes, which costs him his life.

Or leave her oldest friend in the world bound to a lonely rock to win passage toward a doomed battle.

The shrewd Khureybit will not be pushed into doomed battles, however; instead, he decides to take on the zealots.

Then, having done everything within his power to convince the Prophet that his ship wanted no part of the doomed battle, Lomax sat back to await the outcome.