Sentences with phrase «control over their fate»

Dauman's appointment as chairman means he now has an unprecedented amount of control over the fate of Viacom.

Knowing it can give us at least a degree of control over our fate.

What's the difference between fatalism and Chad's free will if the outcome is the same, and humans have no control over their fate?

Whatever we might wish, the national community exercises control over our fate and in part over the fate of the world.

Because they don't have wings, scientists had assumed they had little control over their fate.

Gain control over the fate and be master of your life, enough of loneliness and broken hearts.

Monster 4x4 is as wild as the trucks featured in the game; a real sense of control over your fate in the race is never established, since a wrong move can get you stuck thanks to some poor planning, and getting good turns and boosts seems more like luck than anything else.

After months of rancorous debate, the union and district put forth a resolution that gives teachers unprecedented control over the fate of their schools.

We recommend aggregate publishing because we're in the business — and we happen to believe it's the best option for giving you full control over your fate as an author.

When a book is traditionally published, its author may have very little control over the fate of the manuscript.

My method at least gives you some control over your fate.

NCAA Football 14 gives players more control over their fate on the field or as a coach than ever before.

Unfortunately, the troubled couple don't have much control over their fate — they'll be dragged back together by professional commitments.

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But such a service could also present the risk of publishers becoming even more dependent on social networking platforms like Facebook for readers and revenue, thus giving the tech giants an uncomfortable amount of control over the news industry's fate.

Dying makes us vulnerable, not weak; but our strengths and weaknesses are exposed by how we cope with the ultimate loss control over our temporal fate.

The religious world view of the Hellenistic mind was centered in the notion of Fate, the belief that life was under the heel of blind and unfeeling forces over which one had no control.

Now owning a season sweep over Oakland, Kansas City controls its own fate for the divisional title.

So they have some control over their own fate as they will take on Team UM Alumni in Volleyball during Week 7.

In a piece written two days after the presidential election («The Fate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled CongrFate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congrfate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congress.

Holtzman added, «I began public service running against corruption and the control of special interests and it's an interesting twist of fate that the independent and no nonsense approach that I brought to politics over 30 years ago is now more relevant than ever.

With the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

«We're a lot more comfortable with some of the modifications that have been suggested, especially giving more control to the local school districts and not turning it over to some outside group to determine the fate of the school.»

ALBANY — With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

ALBANY — As the legislative session sprinted to a finish on Wednesday, the fate of mayoral control over New York City schools commanded much of the attention at the Capitol.

Over in the Senate, the fate of mayoral control is less certain.

Ken Lovett: «The fate of mayoral control over New York City schools could come down to a political game of chicken, with the Assembly Democrats in the position to force the Senate GOP into a take it - or - leave it three - year extension of the expiring law, insiders say.»

Flanagan's comments set the stage for what are likely to be contentious negotiations over the fate of the mayoral control law, which expires in June.

The bills, however, have become ensnared in the heated debate over gun control and face an uncertain fate in the GOP - controlled Senate.

Advocates and opponents in the heated debate over a «living wage» bill pressed their case at a City Council hearing Tuesday, but the lawmaker who controls its immediate fate, Speaker Christine Quinn, didn't take a stand.

The concept of fatalism as it relates to health asserts that individuals perceive themselves to have limited control over what happens to their health and that health outcomes may be determined by fate.

Others bloomed from within, such as a sense of agency or control over one's fate.

This gives you some power and control over your weight fate — to a degree.

In this would - be utopia, a group of hackers takes on a centuries - old mystic society, and battles for control over humanity's fate.

This intricate, ingenious tale of friendship and fortitude will provoke debate about how much control we have over fate.

When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him — but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.

Traditional publishing was VERY good to me, but I'd reached a time in my life where I needed more control over my professional fate.

With the advent of desktop publishing in the late 1980s and the emergence of e-books into the mainstream more recently, authors can now take much more control over their literary fate.

Maybe she was trying to jump over the moon and missed.Whatever she was doing, animal control workers had to hoist a 1,000 - pound cow out of Lake Monroe this week after the bovine leaped to its death off the five - foot seawall in downtown Sanford.The ill - fated Bossy startled two fishermen as it wandered along the lakefront Tuesday night, animal control officers said.

As our story begins, we find a terrible fate has befallen the land: an evil Enchantress has swept over the valley, taking control of many areas.

It really is almost a little disturbing how much control you have over your character's painful fate, but then again, to relish in the pain of others is why this title is worth downloading, isn't it?

Players will experience the story of Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star from the independent perspectives of the three factions wrestling for control over SE.RA.PH.

This is a question with implications for figuration in art as well as for the self, struggling in the world to exert control over motions, emotions and fate, as the abstract expressionists were during the early post-war period.

Here's where I expect to see innovation in the 21st century: among the poor and dispossessed, in urban favelas and rural villages, as they string together low - cost, fault - tolerant DER networks, establish new markets and financial practices, and take some control over their own fate.

Their size and influence controls the fates of websites the world over.

He has developed a unique Risk Management approach to mediation which recognizes the benefit to the parties of retaining control over the dispute resolution process, rather than exposing themselves to the uncertainty of having strangers (arbitrators, Judges or a Jury) decide their fate.

Sources said News Corp. and Disney have mulled scenarios where one or both companies hang on to the site, while Comcast has no control over Hulu's fate, having given up its management rights to the site as a concession to federal regulators.

Google needs to have some control over its own fate and the Google Home Mini will help the company compete at the entry level price point of the smart speaker market.

Two important factors to consider in attachment style are (a) how much a child is affected when parents who despise each other «stay together for the kids,» and (b) how much a child's attachment style is affected when a legal battle that the child has no control over determines his or her fate.