Sentences with phrase «held by fate»

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These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

If God is omnipotent, then Camus holds God criminally responsible for the injustice perpetrated against men by fate and death.

If our decisions were fated or predetermined by God, then God could no more hold us accountable for the decisions we make than we could hold accountable a wind - up toy car for driving off a table if we are the ones who wound it up, put it on the table, and sent it driving off toward the edge.

However, the whole scenario is complicated by the relegation struggle and most decisions are on hold until our fate is settled one way or the other anyway.

After a vote by the legislature, Governor Andrew Cuomo now holds the fate of the city's grocery bag fee in his hands.

In a strange quirk of fate, Labour's poll rating is almost identical to the party's performance in 1983 — regularly held up as the benchmark by which all other general election disasters should be judged.

Commissioner Bratton ended weeks of speculation about the fate of First Deputy NYPD Commissioner Rafael Pineiro, 64, by asking him to remain in the post he has held since September 2010.

Apart from the hoopla of the presidential election, the region's voters also decided the fate of candidates for a number of state and national legislative posts at the Nov. 8 polls.In the battle for the 18th district senate seat, held by five - term...

The fate of the bill was put in their hands by Cuomo and legislative leaders after the governor insisted any deal had to include wage guarantees for labor - a position the governor still holds despite the fact that no deal has been reached and there are concerns about the development of affordable rental housing in New York City.

The man who held on too long, he learns, was a doctor who happened on the scene entirely by fate.

The film also stars AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabitha), Alexander Ludwig (The Seeker: The Dark is Rising), Carla Gugino (Night at the Museum), Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do), Ciaran Hinds (The Tale of Despereaux, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I), Chris Marquette (Just Friends), Billy Brown (Lakeview Terrace), Cheech Marin (Beverly Hills Chihuahua) and Garry Marshall («The Simpsons»), with special appearances by Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, who played Tina and Tony, the siblings who hold the fate of the world in their hands, in the classic Disney films.

The Suicide Squad (Task Force X) is sent by Amanda Waller on a secret mission to obtain a mystic artifact once held by Dr. Fate and faces two rival teams of supervillains led by Zoom and Vandal Savage who want the card for their own purposes.

Buffeted by the forces of fate, hate, luck, and passion, our hero struggles to build a life — just to stay alive — in a country that at first held so much promise for him.

He is exposed for the first time to the so - called «refugee detention housing,» run by a for - profit American prison corporation, a holding tank for asylum seekers while the sluggish Scottish bureaucracy determines their fates.

Each stray animal that reaches the end of its holding period is then evaluated by the shelter staff, primarily by Dr. Pienkos and her staff, to determine its fate.

I could actually get a bit metaphorical here and argue that this is a commentary on RPGs as a whole: the NPCs live out their lives, their fates written by the developers, while you the player are not held by the same constraints.

Bandai Namco has announced on the Tekken website that a press conference will be held for both the newly revealed CR Tekken 2 Pachinko machine by Fields and Tekken 7: Fated Retribution.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III: Zombies — Shadows of Evil drops players into a recognizable yet terrifyingly unfamiliar world, as they uncover the secrets and challenges laid out for them by a shadowy figure, who holds their fate in his hands.

They were being protected as people who hold the fate of the world by the Order of Salvation, worshippers of the god Bhunivelze.

Fate by Christopher Le Brun PRA is inspired by the annual competition of history painting held at the École des Beaux - Arts in the 19th Century.

Dressed like soccer referees, the trinity is also, for Roccasalva, a depiction of Zurvan, the Persian god of infinite time, space, and fate, father of twin brothers, who are the personification of good and evil.Finally, all the elements are held together by a text in violet neon that can only be read by looking at it in the mirror.

Just before Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court of Canada held two days of hearings regarding the fate of Mohamed Harkat, detained for over a decade by a secret trial security certificate.

A common, hitherto unresolved, issue in the law of transfer of undertakings is the fate of employees employed within a group of companies by an «employer» company (such as a holding or service company) and who are assigned on a permanent basis to a group operating company which owns the business and which then sells the business to a third party outside the group.