Sentences with phrase «chosen by fate»

Not exact matches

This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported on funds that choose to tie their fates to the performance of companies led by women.

By lumping all persons who act out of a sense of duty and obligation derived from membership in a reference group together in their normocentric orientation, the authors fail to distinguish those who act from the standpoint of a reflective and self - chosen set of commitments (i.e., in accord with a reasoning approach) from those whose membership is a matter of fate and socialization (i.e., out of a fear of group exclusion, disappointment, or exclusion).

Jesus empties himself by choosing to identify with the lot of the poor, whose fate is to be crucified by the powerful.

And yet in the book's climactic scene, in which Ted faces a choice between grace or justice straight out of Flannery O'Connor, he chooses the latter: «He had been fate's minion, raised by her whimsical favor, kissed by her laughing lips, caressed by her wanton finger.

In a country where there has never been a great deal of difference between parties or voters on European issues, the big question of this first distinct European election is the fate of Juncker, who has been chosen by the European People's Party as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission — he is not a candidate for the European Parliament election.

By letting each individual choose their own dating experience, they are literally putting their fate in their hands.

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

A girl is chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a monster, but she does not accept her fate and decides to fight the beast.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

the best strategy I've come up with for mp9 is win to most of the minigames, I say most because of all the luck ones, save my dice blocks for when I need them most, try to become captain for the boss battles and captain events so I can choose peoples fate and earn captain bonuses, and hope that I don't get screwed up by having people earning lucky spaces that give them a million mini stars, hoping that I don't land on spaces that make me lose lots of mini stars, and hoping that I don't end up getting caught by the bomb / boo / sushi / lava.

Rather than choose, he assembles the family in their living room to let fate decide — by blindfolding himself, spinning around, and firing a rifle until one unlucky family member takes a bullet.

A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus (Cavill) must lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at Stake.

What's stunning to me so far is the outrage by authors over tchnology development — when they've chosen to hitch their professional lives to the fickle fate of ebooks.

And finally, in one of the definitional works of contemporary YA lit, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, a teen character makes a body - related decision that may or may not make a difference to their ultimate fate, but definitely makes a difference to how they choose to face it.

In War of the Gems for SNES, we decide the fate of our heroes by choosing which ones fight at each location.

I'm not really taking sides here, but pointing out that for the underlying support of the «don't worry» argumentation here to be effective, IMHO, the premise must be that the previous 5 extinctions were caused by sentient beings that knew and debated the consequences of their actions, thus everything turned out OK»cause there's still sentient beings around to choose their fate.

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

They can let destiny choose their fate, by leaning on the business model that brought them this far and hope that model continues to produce.