Sentences with phrase «defeated by the fates»

And ever since he got defeated by the Fates, he has been fighting against the wind.

Not exact matches

Scolari said that he would let the CBF decide his fate after his team lost the game for third place 3 - 0 to the Netherlands on Saturday, and after being crushed by Germany in a humiliating 7 - 1 defeat on Tuesday.

To the thousands who were reached and electrified by his words it meant the difference between the suffering of a meaningless fate and the liberating insight into the ultimate triumph of Jewish spirit which knows no defeat....

Mourinho has played eleven cup finals in his career and lost only one of them — the 2 - 1 defeat to Atletico Madrid in the Copa Del Rey in his ill - fated final season in charge of Real Madrid, by which point he had lost the dressing room, a rare occurance in a career in which he has been largely adored by his players for his winning mentality and superb man - management skills.

Cleveland avoided that dubious fate in Week 16 by defeating the San Diego Chargers and earning their first victory in more than a year.

The truth is that their fate this season will not be decided by a defeat away to Manchester United.

Liverpool suffered a similar fate a few weeks later at the King Power Stadium with Jurgen Klopp's team heading back to Anfield defeated after a 2 - 0 loss in which his midfielders were out - run, out - fought and out - classed by Kante and Co..

Definitions vary according to the size of the window that constitutes life, (when it starts and stops), its quality or relative value as measured by those in power, (i.e. slaves regarded as half - people, uncharismatic mutations, the sick and aged, outsiders, outlaws, enemies, militarily weaker populations with confiscatable possessions, those with «fates worse than death», et al), and whose lives, (responsibility for all of a wars» deaths might be attributed to the defeated).

Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis warned Labour in Britain could suffer the same fate as its namesake party in Australia, where former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been decisively defeated by Tony Abbott's Liberal - National coalition by taking 88 seats to Labor's 57.

Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg says that, «trying to avoid the fate of the last three incumbents who went down to defeat (in the 24th), Katko continues to be viewed favorably by a majority of voters and to demonstrate significant crossover appeal.»

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.

He believes that the fate of most literary endeavors are sealed within the initial paragraph — and that the seeds of that triumph or defeat are usually sown by the end of the very first sentence.

These two, lone - wolf heroes thrown together by fate must learn to fight as one to defeat the powerful enemies that threaten Draconis, Earth and a vast universe of parallel worlds.»