Sentences with phrase «controlled by fate»

(3) The Christian tradition with considerable consistency has affirmed that human actions are not controlled by fate and are not the mere outcome of natural necessity.

Not exact matches

We were fortunate and privileged to fund it by ourselves, so we took the decision from the beginning to control everything - the fate of the business, how we hire, how we fire, and so on, and we didn't want anyone interfering with that.

However, there is still strong resistance by many in the party to any gun - control measures, leaving the fate of new restrictions unclear.

And as the president increasingly recognizes how much Congress controls his fate, Marc Short, the legislative affairs director, has sought to educate him by appealing to Mr. Trump's tendency to view issues in terms of personality, compiling one - page profiles of legislators for him, the congressional equivalent of baseball cards.

We have the illusion we can control our fate through individual economic opportunity, but we are in fact controlled by the very institutions that allegedly made our «freedom» possible.

His fate — and that of his whole entourage — is controlled by the rose in the west wing.

International commodity markets dominated by a few giants will no longer control their 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.

On a more immediate level, events were determined by Fate, Tyche and Fortuna; what happens to us is determined by transpersonal forces far beyond our control — by «principalities and powers,» by the stars, by demonic powers.

Probably sitting on the outside of any Playoff bubble, but controls a substantial chunk of its fate by a.) having TCU and Oklahoma State coming on the schedule and b.) Baker Mayfield doing things to keep OU in games, like picking up 15 yards on fourth - and - 4 out of absolutely nothing.

Cuomo could keep his latest promise merely by retaining the link to rent control and adding a few years to the sunset date — leaving the cap's ultimate fate in the hands of his successor.

Two bills are poised to pass in the state Assembly, but face an unclear fate in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans in coalition with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference.

What Gallo wants will probably happen, now that Tuesday's action by the task force subcommittee has put the fate of the gun control bill in the hands of six top legislative leaders, four of whom are Democrats.

But Westin, a first - time candidate, was about to learn a hard lesson, namely, that a candidate's fate can be determined by events beyond his or her control.

Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel have now found that the fate of adult hippocampal stem cells is not only controlled by their local niche, but also by a cell - intrinsic mechanism.

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.

«The circuits have a special capacity for noise management that allows each individual bacterium to determine its fate by «playing dice with controlled odds.»»

The article «EGFR signalling controls cellular fate and pancreatic organogenesis by regulating apicobasal polarity» has been published in Nature Cell Biology.

The Hippo pathway not only defines final tissue size by controlling developmental growth, but is also key to specifying stem cell identity and proliferation, to regeneration and tissue repair, as well as numerous cell fate decisions.

A study of the development of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by Neda Masoudi, Oliver Hobert and colleagues reveals a novel function for a member of the basic helix - loop - helix family of transcription factors in controlling terminal neuron differentiation (rather than initial commitment to a neural fate).

Cbl Controls EGFR Fate by Regulating Early Endosome Fusion.

He is internationally recognized for his work on the control of cell growth and fate by the TGF -(beta) family of growth factors.

The latest findings reported by researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology illustrate just how important TET proteins are in controlling cell proliferation and cell fate.

Metabolic control of primed human pluripotent stem cell fate and function by the miR - 200c - SIRT2 axis.

The distance right now is not even the issue at this point because I am willing to make a change by stepping out on fate and letting God take control of this matter... we both are.

Two heroic forces save us from this fate: a warm, zingy script (by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons) and a characteristically wacko voice performance by Will Ferrell as Megamind, a cobalt blue, bulbous - headed freak from a distant planet who defeats his longtime nemesis for control of Metro City but doesn't cope well with success.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

Saved by a disgraced solider named Caine (Channing Tatum), Jupiter must take control of her destiny if she hopes to save Earth from its terrible fate.

«Charter Expansion» -(Oppose) Failed HB 7083 Charter Expansion — Enormous public push - back sealed the fate of this bill that robbed citizens of their right to local control by stripping school boards of their right to:

There is a danger that the Local Control and Accountability Plans recently adopted by every California school district will experience the same unfortunate fate as the School Accountability Report Cards, or SARCs, which all schools are still required to produce each year.

Some think our lives are controlled by free will, others by fate.

Capturing the moment - by - moment details of her journey, Greenlaw tells a story about human nature and the nature around us, about learning what can be controlled and when to let fate step in.

Publishers — and some authors, especially those who control the Authors Guild, which has fought every attempt by Google (s goog) and others to open up the book market — have been so obsessed with piracy and locking down their products that they have allowed Amazon to take control of their fate (if that reminds you of Apple and the music industry, that's probably not a coincidence).

But gradually she is transformed by her experience, and begins to question whether fate controls her or whether she has a hand in her own destiny.

His final verdict: «While it's true that you might do worse by actively managing your money, at least you, and not the markets, are in control of your financial fate.»

Control Star - Lord and the other Guardians as a crowd and determine the fate of the galaxy as it is threatened by Thanos.

«A 2D action platformer where the player takes control of Pandora, a warrior that must decide the fate of her world by venturing into the heart of the Devil Realm to strike down the Eight Generals of Damnation, led by the Higher Evil, a demonic force of pure destruction.

Dire Vengeance is a 2D action platformer where the player takes control of Pandora, a warrior that must decide the fate of her world by venturing into the heart of the Devil Realm to strike down the Eight Generals of Damnation, led by the Higher Evil, a demonic force of pure destruction.

XCOM enemy unknown, a science fiction turn - based strategy game, allows players to control the fate of the human race by creating and managing a fully operational base, researching alien technologies, planning combat missions and controlling soldier movement in battles.

The events of this title follow those of Fate / EXTRA, in which the world of SE.RA.PH is controlled by the all - powerful lunar super-computer known as the Moon Cell Automaton.

Speaking of testing, they even brought back Test your Might and Sight along with a new Test your Luck mode which has player's fates controlled by a random slot machine.

While the rest of the world deals with important issues like the fate of the human race and major disruption of the global atmosphere, the U.S. Congress, which is now completely controlled by the Republicans, is still grappling with understanding (or denying) the basic science.

«After all, what's the point of working hard if our fate is determined by factors beyond our control?»

However, there is still strong resistance by many in the party to any gun - control measures, leaving the fate of new restrictions unclear.

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