Sentences with phrase «if by fate»

As if by fate, my original date, the one who'd claimed me the workaholic, popped in.

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Iran's High Council of Cyberspace, one of the main entities deciding the fate of virtual currencies in Iran, has welcomed the idea of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies if they are harnessed by clearly - stated regulations.

While the unlucky blame fate, the lucky act as if their success happened by accident.

Medicine was sacreligious yet anti-Christians kept practicing it until Christians could no longer argue that illness was a person's fate deemed by God and if they happened to die it was the will of God.

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 edgIf 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 edgif we are the ones who wound it up, put it on the table, and sent it driving off toward the edge.

And if there is a GOD, then only HE will decide our fate, and if his judgement is written in a book, that by no means gives any human the power to dictate that onto another.

You shall be judged by the laws of man, and if you espuse the same lies Jesus did, you just might end up with the same fate.

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices

By doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic — becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by forcBy doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic — becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by forcby force.

Left unclear by the video, which was posted on a Twitter account associated with the Islamic State's media organization, al Furqan, was the fate of a Jordanian pilot, whom the extremists also threatened to kill if Jordan did not release the would - be bomber, Sajida al - Rishawi.

After all, if he could show nihilism to be a destiny woven into the very fabric of the West by a long history of intellectual error, as Heidegger came to believe it was, then perhaps he could convince himself and others that he was not so much a moral idiot as a victim of fate.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

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 theIf, 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 theif 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 theif Brutus had had a righteous son and yet would have ordered the lictors to execute him — who would have understood them?

If we had been dealt with on the basis of justice only, we should have deserved no better fate than those who were crushed beneath the tower of Siloam, or the Galileans murdered by Pilate (Luke 13:1 — 5).

If, by some weird freak of fate, have it left beyond day 3, you can freeze it in individual meal sized portions to reheat and garnish later.

A declining brand is quickly shunned by commercial companies — witness Steve Smith's fate in cricket as evidence of this truth — and even if tourists replace these empty seats, not many are «diehard follow Arsenal to the end of the earth» fans AND continuing to take these noble fans for suckers is a suicidal move.

If Benteke isn't back to his Aston Villa form by then, Benteke could share a similar fate to Balotelli and find himself out of the BPL entirely.

He's got an exciting, if thin, set of offensive personnel, but his near - term fate might be decided by his defensive coordinator.

Deployed out on the right wing in the slot he has been fated to fill for at least three seasons, without putting in a convincing claim — Joel Campbell and Theo Walcott have shown enough to see off his challenges, which have so often been snuffed out by injury if not poor mid-season form — he was both the driving force and cutting edge for the Gunners against the Royals.

If Allardyce by a twist of fate had stumbled upon a young Messi he would have sent him out on loan to Crawley probably because he wasn't match fit, not ready for English football, too shirt, too light, couldn't speak English, whatever?

With one of these worry - free baby monitors by your side, you can afford to enjoy that morning coffee, read a newspaper, or maybe, if the fates align, even catch a quick nap.

If you were an Iranian strategic planner, what conclusions would your draw about the respective fates of other states singled out for post-9 / 11 pariah status by Uncle Sam — North Korea made it to the nuclear finish line, Iraq and Libya foolishly gave up?

Pataki was useless as the governor of NY, as I'm sure Carl would be if by some awful twist of fate he got elected.

If the veto of Major Powers were to be removed, the Security Council would enjoy the same fate as the UN General Assembly: being ignored by the Major Powers and becoming a playground for the unimportant powers.

Yet it remains unclear how any coup mounted by MPs could succeed if, as he has repeatedly said he will, Corbyn turns for support to party activists, now the ultimate arbiters of Labour's fate.

Britain's fate would be in the hands of European politicians who by this stage may have lost patience with Brexit, if they haven't already.

If the developer, which is run by hockey legend Mark Messier, is unable to get the full funding, the lease will remain in escrow and the fate of the development remains uncertain.

«If this act by the Senators was done in good fate, the donation should have been done for civil servants nationwide.

«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.

It says that if all death - sentenced defendants remained under this sentence indefinitely, as opposed to being taken off death row due to being resentenced to life in prison or their fate being artificially cut off by the study ending, then 4.1 percent of those prisoners would have otherwise been exonerated.

If we hadn't, the population might have been pushed to near extinction — an unfortunate fate suffered by other blue whale populations.»

By this thinking, if we knew the properties of every particle on the planet we could, in principle, calculate any person's fate; we could even calculate all the thoughts in his or her head.

What they found was that Chinese - Americans, but not whites, die significantly earlier than normal (by as much as 5 years) if they have a combination of disease and birth year which Chinese astrology and Chinese medicine consider ill - fated.

Because there's no impediment by means of formal significance having a friendship dating site, two individuals can pick to obtain along just like a house burning when they indeed click and often this rocking friendship frequently metamorphoses right into a beautiful love relationship, if it's designed in your fate.

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.»

Anti-climactic and flaccid to the point of being entirely vestigial, The Karate Kid Part III would be the nadir of the series if it weren't saved from that fate by The Next Karate Kid.

For Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), a meeting in line for comet - watching at an LA cemetery (yes, really) might just turn out to be fate as we experience the relationship's less - than - auspicious beginning, middle and possible end — although you'll end up with a migraine if you try and piece any of this timeline together thanks to parallel universes, jarring time - travel sequences and a distinct lack of logical structure offered by Comet.

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.

All around him, the pieces assemble for a high stakes conflict involving the fate of his home world, but those ingredients — including a half - baked villain played by Cate Blanchett and mythological gobbledygook about prophesies — have a tacked - on quality, as if Waititi and screenwriter Eric Pearson couldn't wait to get back to the good stuff.

«Manchester - By - The - Sea» As if to ensure that this sprawling family epic from Kenneth Lonergan does not suffer the same ignominious fate as as his meddled - with, wrangled over and eventually more or less buried masterpiece «Margaret,» Sundance critics greeted the premiere of «Manchester - By - The - Sea» with a veritable stampede of superlatives.

All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).

If that central issue of the picture lies fallow until an ill - fated recital (set up by ill - used, slapstick laughing - stock Christian cellist Graham Claydon (Tom Hollander)-RRB- ends with a few wild swings of a nail - studded bat, at least it's introduced as an elephant in a room full of people in that darkened theatre clucking at how adorable and somehow inspirational it is that a hobo is a world - class cellist.

Fate of the Furious was bloated and beset by the Rock - Diesel feud, if we're being honest.

So now, as a result of the changes put forward by the Malloy Administration and Commissioner Pryor, and approved by the Connecticut General Assembly, superintendents and local boards of education have only TWO WEEKS to submit their intent should they want to develop their own local teacher evaluation systems... and even if they do submit a plan, its fate rests solely in the hands of a Commissioner who has no educational experience.

Also, if you want to support the two boxed sets she has going now, you can grab 20 + authors for 99 cents in Dominion Rising and Marked by Fate.

It's widely believed that they were permitted to embark for propaganda reasons, with the attitude that if they were refused entry everywhere they went, then Germany could not be blamed by these countries for the ultimate fate of the Jews.

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).

With the uncertainty that comes from belonging to a new warlock, Serena questions if being tarnished is really worse than being owned by a barbarian, and tempts fate by breaking the rules.

If other pet owners are inspired to take action by scheduling a wellness visit or asking a question, they may avert the same fate for their pet.