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Such a fate befell less than 1% of those assessed.
How such a fate befell her, we will never know.
There are few hints of the tragedy that befell her.
And this week, the same fate befell its launch schedule.
A similar fate befell the person behind the dancing video.
The next year, a similar fate befell ITT Technical Institute.
Still, what befell Sanders, 78, is not to be taken lightly.
A similar fate befell Beagle 2, another ESA lander, in 2003.
The last two season of nightmares befell literal 15 year olds.
But first, let's discuss the fate that befell poor Joe Schilling.
Even when disaster befell him, Churchill always managed to bounce back.
The same fate befell Mr. Sun's predecessor in Chongqing, Bo Xilai.
She also touched on the tragic week that befell her family.
Womanhood was far-off, a state of emergency that befell other people.
The same fate befell the youthful TV review site Television Without Pity.
It was just one in a string of injuries that befell the Colts.
Luckily, no such tragedy befell Brandon Haubrich: it was all a romantic setup.
For many Democratic strategists, the worst-case scenario is that which befell Sen.
"Much of the financial damage befell pension funds for public employees," he wrote.
But they are far from the only fashion item that befell this fate.
At least the Vapor 2330 isn't vaporware, a fate that almost befell its predecessor.
But the subculture continues to suffer the same ills that befell the punk movement.
Nashville surrendered early, allowing it to avoid the destruction that befell many Southern cities.
Just a few months later, the same fate befell another one of their children.
The risk is a regulatory backlash like that which befell U.S. vaping heavyweight Juul.
"I wasn't shocked at all," Copetas says of learning of the tragedy that befell Paul.
It was their second straight shutout loss, something that never befell them over the season.
According to The Guardian, this horror befell mother Tracy Holzer in March of this year.
When the "Catastrophe of Success" befell him, he enjoyed the partying that came with it.
Royce West contributed statements and proclamations mourning her death and condemning the violence that befell her.
This is a fate that befell Yahoo, and we've seen how well that's gone so far.
In fact, the reasons for the disaster that befell the airborne assault were many and various.
If they did, they probably would have succumbed to the injuries that befell them this season.
Now, however, it's the Swiss suffering from the same fake fate that befell the American brands.
Last year, North Korea officials called Bolton's plan "absurd" and noted the "miserable fate" that befell Gaddafi.
A more predictable end befell two deals that spent at least a year each under regulatory review.
But is it doomed to become predictable, to succumb to the same fate that befell YA dystopias?
The next year, a similar fate befell Julio Beltran-Leyva, another one of Mr. Guzmán's former allies.
On Monday night, that sad fate befell the Rockets, who disintegrated in the crucible of the postseason.
And it is taking pains to avoid the computing pitfalls that befell a rival, TSB, earlier this year.
She should be remembered for her outstanding work and big heart, and not the tragedy that befell her.
Aside from young Daenerys dying, another great tragedy befell him and lead to the exiled of Princess Saera.
It hopes that by cutting the cord now it will avoid the same fate that befell General Electric.
But he could not make layups, and forget the small tragedies that befell him at the foul line.
Yet Russia is unlikely to see a repeat of the acute problems that befell it in late 2014.
Perhaps he is up there somewhere, looking down at the debacle that befell his creation, and wondering why.
"I would like to write here about the sad events that befell our family last weekend," she wrote.
Pointing to the picture, she recounts the atrocities that befell her hometown following the family's escape to Derbent.
She will wake up every morning acknowledging what befell the lives of the Brink's guard Peter Paige, Sgt.
It was a recipe for obsolescence, one that befell many services that relied on dial-up terminal interfaces.
Closer to the impact site, scientists also cataloged a geological timeline of disasters that befell Earth that day.
It's hard to behold the past knowing what befell the subject of one image he took in 1976.
More diversity in the profession may allow hospitals to avoid the nightmare scenario that befell Willie Ramirez in 1980.
Who among us has not fallen victim to what befell Duncan Shields, a video game animator in Vancouver, Canada?
His achievement is self-evident in view of the harsher times that befell Thailand's neighbors over the same period.
The question remains, what tragedy befell Jack in Vietnam that it became too painful to talk about these men?
Sergei Galtsev says his world was turned upside down by the accident which befell him when he was 26.
Some indigenes claim to be suffering the kind of cultural annihilation that befell Australia's Aborigines and New Zealand's Maoris.
The same fate befell the remainder of Meyerbeer's output and dozens of other works in the grand-opera genre.
Nearly a decade later, the same fate befell drafts of his only novel, " The Middle of the Journey " (1947).
But the incomprehensible tragedy that befell Tang Gongwei's family resonated with me in a way the rest had not.
The new owner, ThreeSixty, a private equity-backed company, wants to avoid the problems that befell its previous owners.
A similar fate befell Black Hammer Brewing in San Francisco; in May, it ceased production of its CBD beers.
Hopefully, the Powell Fed will avoid the sort of trouble that befell the economy and financial system in 2008.
The latter fate befell Kamala Harris, who ended her campaign on December 3rd, after months of low polling numbers.
How long would we live, if the only way we died was when an accident or injury befell us?
The same fate befell both England and Germany, who finished third and fourth in Group A, behind Portugal and Romania.
Shortly after launch, every Apple gadget gets dissected into pieces, and that fate befell Apple's new, 9.7-inch iPad Pro.
A similar fate befell "The Man Who Had Three Arms" (1983), a bilious discourse on the wages of evanescent celebrity.
The same misfortune befell Mariah Prussia of Fargo, North Dakota, whose personal Facebook account was hacked literally before her eyes.
She was involved in every act of sabotage which befell the region since even before she became secretary of state.
Lupu finds a similar fate befell Venezuela's two largest parties, Democratic Action (AD) and the Independent Political Electoral Organization Committee (COPEI).
Facebook goes from strength to strength but only narrowly avoided the fate which befell rival services that seemed destined for dominance.
What befell them Wednesday was a Rube Goldberg contraption of woe, one stroke of bad luck, or poor play, after another.
However, Johansson might suffer the same 0 for 2 fate that befell others in the rare two times, one year club.
Such was the fate that befell Isaiah Adams and his girlfriend, Grace, who got engaged at Maryland's stunning Cunningham Falls State Park.
What befell Mr O'Clery's relatives also happened to millions of others, in an age of collective suffering and survival that defies comprehension.
But in another sense, the sheer repetitiveness of the calamities that befell Rome only serves to underline the book's most urgent message.
Geraldo Rivera hosts this new crime series about murders and tragedies that befell celebrities like Dylan McDermott, Kelsey Grammer and Donatella Versace.
I was hoping to never have to read about such a tragedy that befell Mr. Brown, but feared that it might be inevitable.
"I abhor the incident that occurred, the tragedy that occurred, befell Mr. Castile," said Dayton, who was flanked by members of Castile's family.
Such a fate befell former Trump campaign staffer Rick Gates in February, who had been indicted alongside his longtime associate Manafort last fall.
"The government once again extends its deepest condolences to Stephen and his family, as we did when this tragedy befell us," she said.
Long term: We must remember, when the dust settles, that nCoV-2019 was not a novel event or a misfortune that befell us.
Crusades and cathedrals Avoiding the types of public scandals that befell other prominent preachers was key to Graham's long-running success, said Martin.
A script called The Last Words of Dutch Schultz was relegated to a written work, the fate that eventually befell Blade Runner as well.
Calamity befell the Ducks (44-25-13) before the season even started, as they were missing their two top centers and three top defensemen.
It was spared the scale of atrocities that befell Juba, where the conflict began, and Bor, where territorial battles led to massacres of civilians.
They fear Spain would face the sort of severe economic reversals that befell Greece when it put the far left in power last year.
Even sources who favor Kudlow fear he may risk becoming overexposed -- a fate that befell ex-aides like short-time communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
"I can imagine and even feel the sadness that befell upon the relatives of MH17 victims back in July 17, 2014," he told me.
Qatar has "preserved its sovereignty" following a "futile" diplomatic crisis that befell the country in 2017, the emir of the Gulf state said Friday.
Upon hearing this story, and despite the sadness that befell me, I shrugged and moved on, and never imagined I would write these words.
In Dread Nautical, you're a survivor of whatever calamity befell the cruise ship, exploring the ship for resources, other survivors and, most important, answers.
Though nothing can undo the tragedy that befell Brandon Lee, the silver lining is that firearms have since been treated with more care on set.
I'll admit, I was expecting Ellaria's death to be brutal and gory, something similar to the skull-crushing demise that befell her lover, Oberyn Martell.
It was not long before a new tragedy befell the residents of the building, and the country: the invasion by Nazi Germany, in June, 1941.
Obviously, no one could have anticipated the tragedy that befell the family when both Kobe and Gigi were killed in a helicopter crash last January.
Such a fate befell thousands of supporters of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar this week, after the two candidates left the race and endorsed Biden.
Maybe the gap between a heroic founders-and-settlers narrative and the truth about what befell blacks and Indians and others cannot be adequately bridged.
His recent comments may be a sign that Washington is preparing to accept Saudi Arabia's efforts to distance its leaders from whatever fate befell Khashoggi.
Cash still suffers through some of the same struggles that befell her before getting the career changing role as Gretchen Cutler on FXX's You're the Worst.
Relative prudence and decent management will, observers agree, help Brazil avert a banking crisis of the sort that befell other struggling economies (think Spain or Greece).
Because of the tragedies that befell each of them, sometimes we forget how fundamentally the story they told us about ourselves changed the trajectory of America.
At least, that's the fate that befell a mentally ill man named Lester Wallace, one of the first to be sentenced under the law in 1994.
Before launch, the astronauts autographed commemorative envelopes that remained on Earth — a financial safety net for their families to sell if tragedy befell them in space.
That situation befell another Conservative leader, John Major, in 1992, after Britain crashed out of the European Union's exchange rate mechanism — yet he survived until 1997.
Hand injuries befell more than 140,000 workers in the U.S. alone in 2015, according to the most recent available data from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Ms. Oliveira sought out a leader of the Red Command and asked him to spare the library from the ransacking that befell other shuttered government buildings.
"This is an unfortunate tragedy that befell people already suffering the effects of violence," Edward Kallon, the UN Nigeria resident and humanitarian coordinator, said in a statement.
The tragedy that befell Orlando early Sunday morning, in which at least 50 people died, left many unable to comprehend such acts occurring in our everyday lives.
This could not be said of the "Candide-like" succession of horrors that befell one Bosnian fugitive from the Balkan wars, recounted by the novelist Aleksandar Hemon.
Diddy and his daughters posed for a super sweet pic, showing the strength of their family bond in the wake of the terrible tragedy that befell them.
"Having seen the fate that befell British Steel pensioners, the Committee called on the FCA to take urgent action to ban contingent charging," Field said on Thursday.
But for the Boston metal and hardcore scene, Caleb Scofield's death was much more than just a terrible tragedy caught on video that befell some anonymous person.
The same fate almost befell negotiations to broaden the Coal and Steel Community into the European Economic Community, a free-trade area known as the "common market".
For Mattis, who first became a Marine during the Vietnam era, memories of what befell our betrayed allies from that conflict can't be far from his mind.
Observers fear the area could face a fate similar to that which befell eastern Aleppo, which was all but destroyed in a government offensive in December 2016.
"I struggle to stand in front of you today to gain justice and accountability," Ziada told Dutch judges, referring to the "unspeakable tragedy" that befell his family.
"It's a war and she came illegally to Syria, she worked with the terrorists, and because she came illegally, she's responsible of everything that befell her," he said.
Of the three children the couple had that survived to adulthood, tragedy befell two: their eldest son, George, committed suicide; their middle son, John, died a penniless alcoholic.
Imagine the deathly silence, the fear that befell the vast majority of fans in the home team's black and white colors when Sunderland stole a first-half lead.
"It's a war and she came illegally to Syria, she worked with the terrorists and because she came illegally, she's responsible of everything that befell her," Assad said.
But the Iowa results, because of the chaos that befell the state on caucus night, were not officially certified until weeks after Iowa Democrats caucused on February 3.
Further calamity befell the Flyers when the roof of their arena deteriorated and they had to play the final 14 games of their inaugural season away from home.
I knew full well from what befell others who left what would follow: total condemnation and excommunication from all contact with people who had become dear to me.
That is the nightmare that befell Andrea Sloan, an Austin lobbyist who gave up her job at a high-priced law firm to advocate for victims of domestic violence.
The prisoners of war whom this very government sent on missions at the most defining of moments to defend the nation - bad fate befell them and they are forgotten.
The same fate befell Intel's Mobile Internet Device (MID) initiative, which saw the chipmaker pushing and incentivizing its hardware partners to build mini internet tablets like the Nokia N810.
The euro zone's newest members may avoid the same problems that befell southern Europeans in the 2000s—but the single-currency club still makes its members pay their dues.
For the Taiwanese professor, detecting the hidden cameras before his lectures enabled him to exercise caution and spared him the trouble that befell several Chinese professors in recent years.
The news has renewed the hopes of descendants that they can find out more about what befell their distant relatives who went into the asylum and never came out.
When it comes to the last year at Santa Anita in particular, they may blame a perfect storm of events—or the literal winter storms—that befell the track.
If the argument was that the two bills in hand would have been referred to as "socialism," well, guess what: The same fate befell Pelosi's alternative, in predictable fashion.
Here's what we learned from the heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts that befell America last year, and the lessons they offer for how to prepare for the future.
The discovery of a skeleton at the famous Pompeii archaeological site in Italy has revealed the gruesome fate that befell one of the ancient victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption.
Stephen Robinson, a former neighbor of the Graves family who just moved out of the subdivision in March after nine years, was shocked by the tragedy that befell his friends.
Despite being the second-largest eurozone economy after Germany, it has struggled to bounce back from the slowdown that befell much of Europe after the global financial crisis of 2008.
That starts with the premise, which goes as follows: It's been three years since catastrophe befell Jurassic World, and the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar are about to go extinct.
We were thrilled at first, but after eating 12 sliders and five boxes of fries each, we began to enter the same slow-motion state that befell Harold and Kumar.
Families remain split by the conflict, unable to see their relatives on the other side, and some who lost relatives decades ago are still unaware of what fate befell them.
Still, Mattis had been largely immune from the public ire from Trump that befell other, now-fired Cabinet officials such as former Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
A similar fate befell a creationist stepchild, intelligent design, which holds that the universe is so intricate, so complex, that it has to be the handiwork of a master architect.
Hoping to avoid some of the pitfalls that befell other expansion teams in the Sun Belt, the N.H.L. designed favorable expansion rules for Vegas that could accelerate the Knights' development.
An item on the Internet told us that this kind of behavior befell cats who had suffered from what we interpreted as feline aids ; it was a form of anemia.
The recent discovery of a skeleton at the famous Pompeii archaeological site in Italy has revealed the gruesome fate that befell one of the ancient victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption.
A penis entering my vagina seemed to be a line that shouldn't be crossed, and I couldn't shake the feeling that anything terrible that befell me after that would be deserved.
If a nation tots up three positives during the 18-month qualifying period for Tokyo, it faces disqualification from the Games – a fate that befell Russia and Bulgaria at Rio 2016.
A similar problem befell Batman v Superman (a film to which Civil War bears more than a few similarities), so it's not unusual for fans to worry just a little bit.
Over the next few months, a series of unfortunate events befell the F.P. Journe watch — from scratched lugs that drove Dr. Ko "crazy" to being robbed at gunpoint in Berkeley, Calif.
Not the likes of what befell the team behind Hillary Clinton's 19903 campaign, resulting in scores of private emails being published online — and countless news stories that helped seal her defeat.
The same will be true if Trump does win reelection, but the nation suffers a major economic collapse like the one that befell President George W. Bush in his second term.
Now 27, Joe (Edmund Donovan) lives with Maggie above the museum, trying to be less "weird" but almost resigned to the psychic version of the fate that befell his town: unincorporation.
Not only did the company invent the term "pseudo-addiction" to discredit the seriousness of patient dependence, but it also claimed actual addiction befell "less than 1 percent" of those prescribed Oxycontin.
Economists are indeed fortunate to have avoided the fate that befell three Italian seismologists a few years ago, when they were jailed for having failed to forecast an earthquake in their region!
While workers have demanded investments in computer infrastructure to prevent the types of outages that befell Southwest last month and Delta this week, passengers are interested in lower fares and better perks.
Except for our father, up until today, thank God, I was able to save our whole family from the terrible fate that befell tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.
A similar fate befell other pioneers in the field, such as the Jewish-Ukrainian scientist Waldemar Haffkine, who, working in the British Raj, developed toxoid vaccines for both bubonic plague and cholera.
"If any harm has befell this young lady, the arrest and prosecution of the subject or subjects responsible will be of the highest priority for all agencies," Spurgeon said in a statement.
The same fate befell "Brightburn," a horror-superhero mash-up, which essentially asked the provocative question what might have happened if that strange visitor from Krypton became evil as he hit puberty?
The challenge becomes waiting for and orchestrating the window to ferry him away, forcing them to interact with this personification of the evil that befell them while evading detection from Argentine officials.
There's a world of difference between catcalls or wolf whistles and the fatal violence that befell Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared last month after going out for an evening run in Brooklyn, Iowa.
Something similar befell China earlier this decade when, late to halt engagement with Muammar el-Qaddafi before eventually bowing to international pressure, it found itself investor non grata in post-revolutionary Libya.
It may be annoying and time-consuming, but following this simple rule can help you avoid the public pwning, or account takeover, that befell Mr. Zuckerberg, the billionaire owner of Facebook and Instagram.
Mr. Kolomoisky now insists he still has no love lost for Russia, mentioning the mass famine in the 1930s as one of the tragedies that befell Ukraine because of its association with Moscow.
He's not the same smiling Brock he always was and it's not fair this happened to him, and less fair that he should face the consequences of the bad thing that befell him.
Indeed, when the last Javan tiger disappeared in the 103s (although there are some who are hopeful a few still exist in the Ujung Kulon National Park), a series of calamities befell Indonesia.
This, of course, raises the essential question of why you should have felt bad at all about anything that befell the covert Soviet agents Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys).
To avoid the disaster that befell Labor, U.S. progressives need to relax their litmus tests, assessing candidates instead on the broad range of their proposals and what their records say about their values.
Although the top leagues for basketball, baseball, American football and ice hockey have never seen a disaster like the one that befell Yaroslavl and Chapecoense, they have prepared meticulously for such events for decades.
It is a measure of the disaster that befell the party that the centre-left alliance it led came first in only one of the four regions that formerly comprised central Italy's "red belt".
Consider this: Whenever a big snafu befell Dubya, Britney would have a conveniently timed meltdown, placing the pop star at the top of CNN's news crawl and steering eyes away from Bush's newest blunder.
Democrats could wake up on November 4 to a similar fate as befell the British Labour Party in last month's election, and for a similar reason — they're no longer the party of the workers.
"We Republicans learned from the Democrats," said Jim Martin, a former Republican governor, predicting that his party would eventually be on the receiving end of a backlash similar to the one that befell Democrats.
For African-Americans who read in black newspapers about the fates that befell people like Ms. Derricotte, the notion of "arming" oneself with the guide referred to taking precautions against racism on the road.
Those companies have been able to forestall and deflect a fate similar to the one that befell the music industry in the heyday of iTunes, and that is unlikely to change in the near-term.
Yes, Ally believes talk of democracy and political systems will save her from the same fate that befell Kai and Valerie before her, but, Ally is the one who ends the season wearing a hood.
The plot picks up when his daughter (Alison Fernandez) appears at his door, reminds him of the curse that befell him and the other fairy-tale characters of "Hyperion Heights" and helps refresh his memory.
That is a very valuable lesson our nation can learn from a horrific weather-related tragedy that befell London in 1952, bathing the city in toxic smog that claimed the lives of thousands of people.
But just as their non-performing assets began to fall (from over 11% of the total in March 2018 to 9.3% a year later), trouble befell another group of lenders, non-bank financial companies (NBFCs).
What Aloy and Rost each did to become outcasts is one of the questions the game will presumably explore, along with the larger mystery of the calamity that befell humanity, and why the robotic animals remain.
Elie Halévy, an influential early 20th-century French historian, believed that Methodism helped 18th-century England avoid a revolution of the sort that later befell France by educating the lower classes and bringing about social reform.
The movie recounts the romantic complications that befell Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), a mixed-race couple living in rural Virginia in the 1950s who decide to marry after learning of Mildred's pregnancy.
We're told there will be a photo montage displaying pics of different scenarios where first responders were crucial this year -- including at shootings, hurricanes, fires, floods and other natural disasters that befell the country in 2017.
The strategy Pelosi employed to garner support ahead of Thursday's vote has parallels to what befell the contested speaker vote nearly a century ago, in 1923, amid a rising faction of progressive Republicans who demanded concessions.
If the 2017 Cavaliers want to avoid the fate that befell the final iteration of the LeBron Era Heat, they'll have to reach a level of defense we haven't seen from them in quite some time.
When you've got to fit between 18 and 22 episodes into a single season, you simply don't have much room for big gaps, outside of unusual situations like the one that befell 24 in the 2000s.
Sadly, the Weavertown One Room School House website is now defunct and the Facebook page has only one entry from 2013 on it, so we do not know what befell it to force these 28 figures out.
Considering the widespread flak that recently befell Pepsi when it released its own faux protest commercial, it seems like a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot move to attempt to co-opt protest iconography to sell a product.
Pyongyang believes Washington wouldn't, and that's why the country sees nuclear weapons as the key to sparing Kim Jong Un from a fate similar to that which befell Moammar Gaddafi in Libya and Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Peres played a role in every major event that befell the Jewish state over a 28503-year period, serving in the country's most vital leadership positions, including Minister of Defense and three times as Israel's Prime Minister.
Kuri's demise followed a similar fate earlier this year that befell Jibo, a heavily funded effort by Cynthia Breazeal, an M.I.T. professor, to build a social robot that had started a $23 million Indiegogo campaign in 2014.
All her life, Nancy was jealous of Diana, partly for her beauty but more for the indomitable and rare self-control that enabled Diana to remain sphinx-like, serene and supremely herself no matter what befell her.
As they pursue their own agenda, Republican senators are drafting a health care bill with little White House input, seeking to avoid the public relations pitfalls that befell the House as it passed its own deeply unpopular version.
A similar fate befell the favored American women in their game here on Tuesday as the Colombian women, riding two brilliant free kicks by Catalina Usme, a striker with a ponytail Mohawk, tied the score at 2-2.
" The Kurds' de facto leader later wrote an unnerving lament to Ford's successor, President Jimmy Carter: "I could have prevented this calamity which befell my people," he said, "had I not fully believed in the promise of America.
As they pursue their own agenda, Republican senators are drafting a health care bill with little White House input, seeking to avoid the public relations pitfalls that befell the House as it passed its own deeply unpopular version.
Patients hid his art for him, to avoid the looting that often befell Jewish art collections, until he made arrangements to get safely to South Africa; once there, the masterpiece hung on his wall until his death, Quartz reports.
It's hard to imagine a situation like the one that befell the classic sitcom Seinfeld, which overcame a shaky start, both creatively and in the ratings, to become an all-time favorite, simply because the network believed in it.
"It's a war and she came illegally to Syria, she worked with the terrorists and because she came illegally, she's responsible of everything that befell her," he told NBC News in the interview later posted on Syrian state media.
But Mr. Musk has stated often that his loftier goal for SpaceX is to send people to Mars to make humanity a "multiplanetary species" in order to ensure survival in case some calamity like an asteroid strike befell Earth.
The story centers on an incident that befell a naïve young housewife named Louise Maske, whose underpants somehow slipped down to her ankles as she stood on her toes trying to see the king pass by in a parade.
As someone who has devoted the weeks and months since tragedy befell my school to gun control efforts and school safety, I can tell you that arming teachers would not make me feel any safer in a classroom setting.
That fate befell him even after German officials discovered — with the aid of a local Chinese restaurant worker and a translation app — that the man was not applying for asylum, but instead hoped to roam Europe as a tourist.
In the end, though, "All I Need Is One Night" suggests, delicately and with bemused affection, that what befell Solidor was rather banal: She grew old, and had trouble accepting that she was no longer the center of attention.
For nearly two months, the French struggled to get to work as trains shut down and mammoth demonstrations snarled the streets of Paris, and workers cursed the president and promised the same fate for him as befell Louis XVI.
Rubio, a Cuban-American and dogged critic of the Cuban government, will lead the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing, which will look into the unexplained illnesses that befell US diplomats and their family members and the State Department's response.
But then an irony befell that sweet romance, To Have and Have Not, when Bacall instead fell in love with a rattled, rasping alcoholic who had a bad temper and a bold toupee, plus a fear of growing old.
"Violent moves in AUD and JPY this morning bear all the hallmarks of a 'flash crash' similar to that which befell NZD in August 2015 and GBP in October 2016," said Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at National Australia Bank.
Fara also gives us insight into what happened after the Tommies came home, the ignominious fate that befell these female trailblazers once their "superiors" returned to their posts, and the way this era impacted the work of women scientists today.
At the UN in Geneva, he talked about a "hegemon imposing its will on others" and warned America about a "Thucydides trap"—the disaster that befell ancient Greece when the incumbent power, Sparta, failed to accommodate the rising one, Athens.
Natural disasters don't discriminate across class, racial, or party lines, as evidenced by the tragedy that befell Texas and Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which took the lives of at least 60 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
It was not immediately clear what befell the Norwegian-owned Front Altair or the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, which both suffered explosions, forcing crews to abandon ship and leave the vessels adrift in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran.
It was not immediately clear what befell the Norwegian-owned Front Altair or the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, which both experienced explosions, forcing crews to abandon ship and leave the vessels adrift in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran.
For the past six Fridays, Hamas, building on genuine Palestinian misery in Gaza, has orchestrated mass demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border leading up to next week's Nakba Day -- which commemorates the catastrophe that befell Palestinians with the creation of Israel.
As someone who worked inside the organization under former Director James Comey and lived the political rollercoaster of 2016, I am still amazed when I stop to reflect on the series of unfortunate events that befell the organization, seemingly at once.
They did, however, have houses that were rich in equity for collateral, and signed documents agreeing that they would pay an interest rate of 18 percent if they fell behind, a circumstance that befell half of Emigrant's subprime borrowers by 2009.
His focus: the S&P 500, which he suspected would plunge dramatically as new cases befell Americans and fear spread, and the German DAX index, which was heavily exposed to manufacturing companies hurting from the slowdown of activity with China.
It was not immediately clear what befell the tankers, the Norwegian-owned Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, which both suffered explosions, forcing crews to abandon the vessels, leaving them adrift in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran.
This past fall, such a fate befell ABC's Wicked City, whose third episode pulled only 20173 million viewers and a 0.4 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic that advertisers love (higher numbers are better, as you'd expect).
Maybe it was my adrenaline starting to ebb or maybe it was this up-close example of the enormous tragedy that befell a small Texas community — but at the end of the interview, I could feel my voice starting to crack.
It's also likely that similar to the ultimate disaster that befell ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the DRC's attempts to extract more from cobalt will unleash a wave of unintended consequences, none of which will be positive for the government in Kinshasa.
Nibali was attended by medical staff after failing to finish the race, a fate that befell more than half the 144 riders on a crash-heavy day in which many suffered technical problems during an early cobblestoned section of the 237.5 km course.
It's been almost 500 years since Shakespeare first asked what's in a name, but in Europe, the debate is still roiling — with consequences that are far more global though no less dire than the ones that befell Verona's two star-crossed lovers.
The fact that the Commercial Center also become known as one of Las Vegas's two clusters of LGBTQ commerce is, to some extent, both a reason for and a consequence of the hard times that befell it after its 1960s and 1970s heyday.
American Taylor Fritz, the second seed, avoided the disaster that befell top seed John Isner in his opener by beating American qualifier Kevin King 6-2, 6-73 on Thursday to advance to the quarter-finals of the BB&T Atlanta Open.
Fingers crossed that Titanfall 63 avoids the same fate that befell the original Titanfall, which boasted a bombastic, fantastic multiplayer mode that somehow slipped through the cracks, making it strangely difficult to find a full match just a few months after its release.
Laid-off workers often face stigma from employers who wonder whether they may actually have been cut for underperformance, says Cappelli — but workers whose whole plants were shut down fare better, since it's clear the fate befell everyone, not just the less productive.
With the temperature on Mars falling as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit, Callas explained how Opportunity must stay warm enough to keep from freezing its computer – a fate which NASA believes befell sister rover Spirit in 2010 after getting stuck in sand.
Aside from that, and a few other departures to help a joke land or a plotline cohere, the movie doesn't stray too far from a dramatically rich series of events that befell Gordon and Nanjiani a decade ago, shortly before they turned thirty.
If you were on Harris's List, the Georgian version of Redbook (rest in peace), you had access to the rumored Whores Club, a society of sex workers where dues were paid in exchange for future availability of funds if emergency befell you.
Such a fate befell this particular van, which caught the attention of some dude in a T-Rex suit wanting to re-enact the famous scene from the film (of a T-Rex chasing a car, for those who haven't seen it).
Whereas a group of men in power would rather move on from the violent sexual assault case, choosing to file it away as another unfortunate circumstance that befell an innocent woman, McDormand's character speaks for all women when she refuses to do so.
And it is this existential question of "to be, or not to be" — that single-minded drive to avert the fate that befell Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceausescu and Libya's Moammar Gaddafi — that propels the Kim dynasty's decades-old stratagem of nuclear duplicity.
"It's a war and she came illegally to Syria, she worked with the terrorists, and because she came illegally, she's been responsible for everything that befell on her," Mr. Assad told NBC News in 2016, denying that Ms. Colvin had been targeted.
And so when we consider the horror that befell this Mormon family, and reach for our empathy over this ghastly attack, we might save some of this feeling for those who are not American, but who face the same mayhem, the same threat.
While the term has been used in metaphorical ways for decades, it acquired a new meaning with the 22011 documentary about the subject and subsequent 22012 reality TV show of the same name, as well as the hoax that befell linebacker Manti Te'o.
If he does run, and if the Republicans lose Congress in November, Trump will want to avoid the fate that befell President Benjamin Harrison after his election in 1888, in which he decisively won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.
"If you are asking whether the secretary and I think all Americans and all Japanese are filled with sorrow at the tragedies that befell so many of our countrymen, the answer is yes," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added.
And it ironically foreshadows a harrowing incident that befell him after his return to Naples from Messina, when he was ambushed at a tavern door by persons unknown (quite possibly a band of vengeful Knights), who slashed his face until he was unrecognizable.
While it's unclear how Gladly can help airlines avoid PR nightmares like what befell United, Littleford said her long-term vision is to equip JetBlue's flight crew with iPads so they can use Gladly's app to identify customers who may need extra attention and support.
He argued that it would be dangerous to elect someone who could help form a Democratic majority in the Senate, citing the tax increases and fiscal problems that he said befell the district the last time the party controlled both houses of the Legislature.
Halep moves on to a third round encounter with American world number 76 Lauren Davies, happy to have avoided the early exits that befell her on her last two visits to Melbourne and with her tenuous grip on the number one ranking still holding.
As this scenario befell more and more cable dramas — which were less bound by the "September to May" calendar of the broadcast TV networks — the Emmys eventually, agreed that "rollover" episodes of a show's season could be applied to the season as a whole.
In early Christian writing, and indeed in the New Testament book of Acts, those verses (including verse nine) are interpreted as a prophecy of the terrible but well-deserved fate which befell Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Christ and later hanged himself in despair.
It only affects 2628 patients in the U.S. per year, but this is the reality that befell Paul Kleutghen of St. James, N.C. Paul, a career veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, now has to take daily chemotherapy, and a regiment of three different drugs.
And of course, they are out of sight, but only until the moment when this volatile amalgam of government neglect, poverty, police suppression, and underground cultural experimentation is forced into the light — often through a catastrophe such as the one that befell the Ghost Ship.
To Republicans in these red states, the president's trips are crucial building blocks to avoiding the fate that befell Obama-era Democrats, who suffered deep midterm losses because they could not rouse sympathetic voters to cast ballots when the president was not on the ballot.
But now, armed with a wealth of new scientific information that researchers have compiled, Inspector Horn has managed to piece together a remarkably detailed picture of what befell the Iceman on that fateful day around 3300 B.C., near the crest of the Ötztal Alps.
Broberg's Father Called The Police After The First Kidnapping Though many people have come away from Abducted In Plain Sight wondering how anyone could let anything that befell Broberg happen to their children, Broberg has previously said she considers her parents to be victims of Berchtold, too.
After a week on the receiving end of attacks by the billionaire businessman, including charges that the senator isn't eligible to be president because he was born in Canada, Cruz launched a high-risk tactic that has befell every other Republican that tried it -- attacking The Donald.
The Alstom example Take, for example, the misfortune that befell Alstom, the French power company, when it was charged with paying more than $75 million in bribes to government officials in Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas and Taiwan via a network of third-party consultants.
The play further ignited the Thunder, who immediately went on a 25-4 run to finish the half, in what looked, from the opposing point of view, hauntingly familiar to what befell the Spurs over the first three quarters here in Game 6 of the conference semifinals.
This Is Us's greatest risk has always been that its primary story engine is the idea that we don't know the exact details of everything that befell the Pearson family between the events of the flashbacks and the events of the present — especially how Jack died.
Such a fate befell my wife, Cary, last August, and so, in a celebratory mood, we set out on a five-hour drive from our home in Seattle to the state's wine capital, Walla Walla in Washington's southeastern corner, which can aptly be described as Napa in bluejeans.
I don't entirely know why the series has opted to loop Pyke back into its story — okay, I do; it's because the show is stalling for time — but the sheer scale of calamity that befell Yara in a very short time ended up being kind of unintentionally comical.
That same fate almost befell the unreleased Saints Row: Undercover — a planned PSP version of the open-world gangster game — until earlier this month, when a newer staff member at Saints Row developer Volition dug a development kit containing an early version of the game out of a cupboard.
After the tribe made peace with its neighbors, India took steps to minimize contact between the Jarawas and the world that surrounds them, hoping to avoid the catastrophes that befell aboriginal people in other countries, like the United States and Australia, when settlers passed on germs and alcohol.
BUENOS AIRES — In the year since 203 Argentine sailors vanished aboard a submarine, some relatives of the missing crew members had refused to speak of their loved ones in the past tense as they held out hope for a miracle — or at least clarity as to what befell them.
" If we are to avoid the fate that ultimately befell Rome, Watts cautions, it is "vital for all of us to understand how Rome's republic worked, what it achieved and why, after nearly five centuries, its citizens ultimately turned away from it and toward the autocracy of Augustus.
We've long since normalized the horror of listening to someone telling you about the tragedy that befell a fantasy team, but if that talk were instead about whether the Cowboys were going to cover the spread, wouldn't that conversation come closer to the actual, idealized point of the game?
"Miss Americana" suggests a tenuous connection between Swift's wading into her politics and the Dixie Chicks' being drowned because of theirs, although Wilson's movie doesn't have the force or clarifying intent (or material) of "Shut Up and Sing," Barbara Koppel's very good documentary about what befell the Dixies.
The excavation at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii unearthed the remains of the man, who was thought to have crushed while attempting to flee the eruption in 79 A.D. After discovering the unfortunate man's skull, however, experts now think that the he befell a different, but similarly gruesome, fate.
Jessica cheekily captioned the shot, "Missed a spot…" poking fun at the fact that despite clearly having just shaved her legs, in her haste a tragedy befell her that every woman who has ever shaved her legs is all to familiar with, missing a wide swatch of some very long strands.
Mr. Nunes would do well to remember what befell Senator Daniel Brewster of Maryland: In 1972 the Supreme Court declined to afford him speech or debate immunity in a bribery prosecution, pointing out that the alleged crime turned on acceptance of payment, not the ultimate voting act promised in return.
There's a well-written, almost Chekhovian lunch party where Saul Rubin, a close friend of the Weekses, regales the other traitorous guests with self-serving anecdotes about his wife's ability to outwit security and remove atomic secrets from Los Alamos in the full knowledge of the fate that befell the Rosenbergs.
As pure digital events, the online fundraisings are also exposed to familiar internet frauds, from phishing scams used to rip off the unwary to the hacking of the underlying software underpinning the new ventures — the fate that befell the first prominent ICO last year, for a company called the DAO.
When one or two of the company became ill, as occasionally happened, the group had rapidly to reassign the roles; when almost all of them succumbed at the same moment, as befell them after an imprudent dinner in Mexico City, they had to make do with improvised narration and zanily curtailed scenes.
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws, Exert their influence, and advance their cause By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell, Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies; Like Eden's dread probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee!
Though some families have managed to keep thriving — descendants of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst still own media properties worth billions and the Mars candy company, founded in 1911, remains family-owned with estimated annual revenues of more than $35 billion — the same type of scenario that befell the Strohs has consumed other family fortunes.
The rampant thefts of the seals and other Iraqi Museum artifacts preceded the cultural catastrophe that befell the country in recent years when members of the radical Islamist group Isis destroyed many ancient art treasures and shrines in Syria and Iraq, like the supposed tomb of the biblical prophet Jonah in Nineveh, outside the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The one ship that returned, your ship, Argo9, finds only remains of the human race where once there was society reaching out into the stars – and both what's kept the ship away for so long and the fate that befell the human race is explained as the Metroidvania-styled, retro-aesthetic game plays out, through environmental clues and preserved "holo-tapes".
The cataclysm that befell the island is, by all accounts, horrific: scores of communities with roads and telephones cut off; hospitals with dwindling fuel for generators; once verdant vistas reduced to acres of spindly trees stripped of leaves; tens of thousands of homes blasted into splintered piles of timber; and people left rationing crackers and whatever water they can scavenge.
According to the Post, she was only withdrawn for the CEQ role because the White House became concerned she could not pass muster for a final vote in the Senate, which the Republican Party currently controls—a fate which previously befell Michael Dourson, a toxicologist with ties to industry senators deemed too close to let Trump put him in charge of chemical safety at the EPA.
It's not because I'm not proud of being bisexual, and it's not because I don't believe in the importance of a strong, united, and vocal LGBTQ community, especially in the wake of the horror that befell the victims of last month's Pulse nightclub shooting, an unspeakable act perpetrated by a man who, for all intents and purposes, was too ashamed to embrace his own queerness.
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Yet, I am certain as I can be without personally knowing this man that he thought a death like the one that befell him was in the realm of the possible for him — because Terence Crutcher was black in America, which happened to be the same condition shared by Keith Scott Tamir Rice, Philando Castile and hundreds of other black Americans killed by employees of the state in the past few years.
As TechCrunch noted, under the guidelines of the bill—which passed into law Tuesday without the signature of Republican Governor Phil Scott—data brokers will have to pay a $100 annual fee to register with the state, and will have to comply with new rules meant to protect Vermonters from suffering at the hands of another data breach like the one that befell Equifax last year and exposed the data of 145 million (and counting) Americans.
And, Megan, love, my sister's eyes were not yet there to hold it all together since she hadn't yet been born so when the world dropped out from under us and no one, not the on-calls with their CAT scans, not the sovereign souls who monitor the twilit room where newborns come to die or live, when no one could tell us if you would be one of the lucky ones able to walk and speak and only this, the one unstinted blessing fate had given us to give you was a sister in whose eyes you were the sun and moon, it meant we all no matter what befell us all had solid ground.

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