Sentences with phrase «fate in the hands of»

It was also worded in an unwieldy way, putting Ms Mead's fate in the hands of Mr Lemon whom she had never met and had close ties with other family members, which was unreasonable, Master Sanderson said.

Indeed, the worst - case scenario for Whistler just might be the status quo, with the community's fate in the hands of a distant corporation with a massive hill to climb.

Bill O'Reilly left Fox News this week for a long - planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands of a Murdoch family calculating the risks and rewards of keeping him on or forcing him out of the network.

While others put their fate in the hands of DMPs with questionable data quality and difficult interfaces, you don't have to.

After finishing strong in» 04, a team with savvy veterans puts its fate in the hands of a 24 - year - old quarterback who has thrown five NFL passes

The Bengals were forced to put their playoff fate in the hands of Andy Dalton's understudy AJ McCarron and nearly pulled off a stunning wild - card comeback.

That left IMT's fate in the hands of Team Liquid, who would have had to 2 - 0 FlyQuest for them to move on.

Last summer, Wolves basically put their fate in the hands of super agent Jorge Mendes.

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.

They truly deserve sympathy because they are living in a fool's paradise as Nigerians are now wiser and will never entrust their fate in the hands of wicked and shameless looters like Wike and his co-travellers.

With no plan I put our fate in the hands of Yelp and found the best meal we had on the Big Island.

Ig is placing his fate in the hands of a public defender, Lee Tourneau (Max Minghella), another friend since childhood and the only person who doesn't see the horns on Ig's head or start confessing wicked thoughts and evil deeds in his presence.

Thankfully, the developers at Polykid didn't put their entire fate in the hands of crowdfunding and instead just wanted to use it to expand on what they already had planned.

It's difficult for me to imagine giving up all control, putting my fate in the hands of a stranger, and hoping for the best, but I can't say that in certain circumstances I wouldn't have done it.

The target of an assassin, he finds himself behind bars, his fate in the hands of his gorgeous public defender Grier Childe.

Not bad, wouldn't have put my professional fate in the hands of a writing company if I wasn't so busy but I don't regret it.

Outdoor School for All, a statewide, grassroots initiative, is working to ensure the future of Outdoor School by seeking to put its fate in the hands of Oregon voters.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., will bring up legislation reversing one of the last major environmental rules finalized before Barack Obama left office, after a fierce lobbying battle that has left its fate in the hands of a few Senate...

Putting one's fate in the hands of fellow citizens, rather than in the hands of the government, provides us with an important protection against government overreach or the politicization of criminal prosecutions.

Do not leave your fate in the hands of an inexperienced lawyer.

In Collaborative Divorce, you and your spouse will not leave your fates in the hands of a judge or a jury.

Patients often arrive at the emergency room unconscious, leaving their fates in the hands of whichever doctors are on staff that day.

«Most project proponents are not content to leave their fate in the hands of the Crown and hope that the Crown will discharge the duty,» says Bergner.

«The business side has long had to place their fate in the hands of those with the requisite skills, but often with little sympathy for or firsthand knowledge of the business itself,» he explained.

Adding the fees and hassle of court proceedings and putting your fate in the hand of a judge can just add to the stress of this already overwhelming time.

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Although the final fate of the sweeping health care reform lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, one can't fault Obama for not staying true to his word on this one.

As with Facebook's Instant Articles, however, Medium's offer to publishers brings up many of the same risks: Number one being that your fate — and the discoverability of your content, and any relationship you have with your readers around that content — is essentially in the hands of a third - party provider.

The creditors of Atlas Iron have voted in favour of the iron ore miner's proposed debt - for - equity swap, with the fate of the scheme, and the company, now in the hands of shareholders who will vote next week.

And our fate and our future is in hands of these two kids.

In the days immediately following the election of President Trump, Republicans appeared to more or less have the upper hand, and the fate of the ACA looked sealed.

Trump may have the fate of this American innovation in his hands.

The fate of thousands of lives in your hands every day?

Plans for similar terminals in neighbouring Washington State are expected to meet a similar fate at the hands of like - minded regulators.

According to OFR's research, those five Wall Street mega banks hold the fate of the U.S. financial system in their highly interconnected and highly dangerous hands.

Normally, I agree that we ought to reserve our judgment of a person's ultimate fate since that is solely in the hands of God's grace and we don't know another's heart before God.

Esther realizes that the fate of a whole nation, the dream of the people of God, is in her hands.

«These two leaders held the fate of the world in their hands.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Lest we think all martyrdom is at the hand of right - wing states, we do well to remember the fate of those nuns whose death at the hands of the French Revolution is chronicled by Poulenc in his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.

While everyone is eagerly awaiting the Mansfield ball, Edmund has his mind on other things, being «deeply occupied in the consideration of the two important events now at hand, which were to fix his fate in life — ordination and matrimony.»

It therefore speaks not of «nature» but of God, and God is the inscrutable Power in whose hands is the fate of man.

But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great - souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable.

Incessant hand - wringing over the fate of the novel or of reading in general draws our attention to all the wrong places.

As to the fate of non-Christians, as well as of those who lived before Christ, the only Christian thing to say is that that is in the hands of God, or, to put it more colloquially, God can deal with that.

Do you honestly want to put the fate of your nation in the hands of someone who thinks he's talking to God??? That gets you a 72 hour committal, not the presidency.

As fate would have it, I did not have to wait long, for we discovered that next summer that we each inhabited the same island as cottage owners in the Ottawa Valley: a discovery that led to many evenings spent together on each other's front deck, bourbon in hand, after sharing a common celebration of the Eucharist and a common meal.

The wide dissemination in the Near and Middle East at this time of dualistic faiths, the staple of that religious phenomenon loosely labeled Gnosticism, was another manifestation of the same malaise; while in Hellenism many suffered from a «sense of helplessness in the hands of fate» which made them «wonder whether it is possible to be at home in the world at all.»

If, on the other hand, while a favorable wind bore the fleet on with swelling sails to its goal, Agamemnon had sent that messenger who fetched Iphigenia in order to be sacrificed; if Jephtha, without being bound by any vow which decided the fate of the nation, had said to his daughter, «Bewail now thy virginity for the space of two months, for I will sacrifice thee»; if Brutus had had a righteous son and yet would have ordered the lictors to execute him — who would have understood them?

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

One of the most sensible comments i have read here, Wenger is hiding from the fans and can't face the fans... Almost every manager has a very good relationship with there fans but not at Arsenal... He will always blame the fans and not himself for poor performances, as for me i have accepted my fate, 2 more years of Agony and unhappiness watching my beloved club but i know Kroenke, Wenger, Gazidis will not be at arsenal forever because like it or not someone will come and save the club from there hands in the NEAREST future and guess what?