Sentences with phrase «in by the fate»

Though Farmiga does not feel hemmed in by the fate demanded by the larger historical work.

Not exact matches

The economy was saved from a worse fate in the first half by consumers.

«Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never - before - disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self - preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.»

The writing is exceptional; the plot constantly twists; the dialog is crisp and clever and never fails to drive the story forward; Damian Lewis is, as always, great; Paul Giamatti is, well, he's Paul Giamatti; the moment Wags, played by David Costabile (the ill - fated Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad), appears in a scene, you instantly smile with anticipation.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the controversial 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, which gives an alternative fate for Jesus Christ, was banned in numerous counties, and in the US cities that had successful bans during the film's release included: Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; and Santa Ana, California.

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.

The theory, popularized by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, warns that successful companies are inherently vulnerable to being «disrupted» by new entrants, and the only way to avoid such a fate is to replicate the risk - taking, pizza - devouring culture of upstart firms.

Known for her candor in the Clinton administration, Shalala disagreed with the president's decision to run the ill - fated health care task force, led by Hillary Clinton, from the White House.

However, 4 % per year and one in four stand in contrast to the fate suffered by shareholders: an actual decline in the S&P 500 during this period.

Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.

The Medicaid expansion's fate is now up in the air, as are the individual health insurance marketplaces established by Obamacare.

Founded by the creator of ill - fated music sharing service Imeem (which quietly died in a fire sale to MySpace), Picplz already has an Android version available in addition to iPhone and offers similar quirky filters for photos.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

The Conservatives» first attempt to get rid of the subsidy, announced in the fall of 2008, triggered the ill - fated bid by opposition parties to form a coalition and replace Harper's minority.

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.

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

In spite of lingering concerns about Greece's fate, the European economy would appear to have hit a sweet spot marked by steadily improving growth and inflation figures, along with declining unemployment.

Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

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.

The firm has since been bogged down in various legal matters, including an attempt by Teo to have his fate decided in arbitration.

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.

For even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their fate.

We're reading copies of copies that eventually were assembled and re-composed by the jewish elite during exile in Babylon when they decided the reason for their unfortunate fate was the lack of monotheism mandated by the 10 Commandments.

By lumping all persons who act out of a sense of duty and obligation derived from membership in a reference group together in their normocentric orientation, the authors fail to distinguish those who act from the standpoint of a reflective and self - chosen set of commitments (i.e., in accord with a reasoning approach) from those whose membership is a matter of fate and socialization (i.e., out of a fear of group exclusion, disappointment, or exclusion).

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

Now, to be fair, the movie is in limited release and only has 10 total reviews aggregated right now (by contrast, The Fate of the Furious has 81) but, hey, seven of those 10 ratings are positive and a fresh rating is a fresh rating.

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

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CNN: Setback for Pakistani teen facing blasphemy charges A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

The Qur» an illustrates this sudden, instinctive faith in Allah by describing in detail Pharaoh's feeling when he was faced with death by drowning and realized the impossibility of escape, «And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them in rebellion and transgression, till, when the (fate of) drowning overtook him, he exclaimed: I believe that there is no God save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender (unto Him).

The fate of the church that forgets its working class roots was never better described than in this poem by Elmer F. Suderman:

Finally, we were told about the fate of the captain: after the war he was investigated by de-Nazifiers, but was let off when some of the Jews from the St. Louis testified in his behalf.

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.

The very depth of his preoccupation with the theological problem presented by the terrible fate meted out to Jesus as a result of the Jewish and Roman leaders» readiness to co-operate in his destruction makes him a questionable witness to the motives and intentions with which the Lord approached and confronted his supreme hour.

But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

Were the Gospels to end with Christ's sepulture, in good tragic style, it would exculpate all parties, including Pilate and the Sanhedrin, whose judgments would be shown to have been fated by the exigencies of the crisis and the burdens of their offices; the story would then reconcile us to the tragic necessity of all such judgments.

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.

I have yet to be effected in anyway by god unless I want to take a series of coincidences as «fate» and «divinely inspired»

He argues persuasively that the fate of public neighbors who have found their way into Boston's public housing projects in the last 70 years must be imbedded in the longer, wider story of the treatment of such neighbors since the city's initial settlement by the Puritans.

The fate of the civil rights movement, its leaders recognized, lay in its ability to convince politicians and administrators in the federal government that it was in their interest to enforce the law and defend the Constitution in the South in the face of the massive resistance by politically potent segregationists.

More particularly, our consideration of the fate or future of religious liberalism is skewed from the start by unproved and, in most cases, unprovable assumptions about the past effectuality of institutional Protestantism.

Brian De Palma's film Carlito's Way tells the story of a man chased by furies — a chase in which he attempts to flee from his fate, but from which he can not escape.

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.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

«A historical mystery always means a relation between a super-personal fate and a person, and particularly that which is atypical in a person; that by which the person does not belong to his type.»

But without the ability to enter relation and cursed with the arbitrary self - will and belief in fate that particularly mark modern man, the individual and the community become sick, and the I of the true person is replaced by the empty I of individuality.

That wherein immediacy has its being, or (supposing that after all it has a little bit of reflection in itself) that part thereof to which it especially clings, a man is deprived of by «a stroke of fate,» in short, he becomes, as he calls it, unfortunate, that is, the immediacy in him receives such a shock that it can not recover itself — he despairs.

On coffee tables throughout Middle America, the display of the New Yorker was a statement that the people who live here are not defined by the hinterland to which fate has consigned them; they are in touch with the larger world.

Palestinian suffering becomes (the phrase is Goldhagen's) the «unifying symbol» for many people «who have never been troubled by oppression of Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria, or the fate of the world's many other stateless peoples, like the Kurds, Tamils, Tibetans, or Chechens.»