Sentences with phrase «predestine events»

Did god predestine events?

If god has predestined an event.

Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event?

The owner relied strongly upon the judgment of Megaw LJ in The Mihalis Angelos when it argued that only inevitable or predestined events should be taken into account when assessing damages.

«If the contractual rights which he has lost were capable by the terms of the contract of being rendered either less valuable or valueless in certain events, and if it can be shown that those events were, at the date of acceptance of the repudiation, predestined to happen, then in my view the damages which he can recover are not more than the true value, if any, of the rights which he has lost, having regard to those predestined events.»

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He was made to commit the betrayal by a predestined series of events so that Jesus could save us.

On the basis of the judgment of Lord Justice Megaw in Maredelanto Cia Naviera SA v Bergbau - Handel GmbH (The Mihalis Angelos)[1971] 1 QB 164, [1970] 3 All ER 125, it argued that the only exception to this rule was where subsequent events were, at the date of crystallisation, inevitable or predestined.

Lord Carswell disagreed with the owner's submissions that Megaw LJ had intended to create a general rule limiting consideration of subsequent events to those predestined to happen, as at the date of acceptance of the repudiation.