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In Greek mythology, the Fates controlled the destinies of men.
It had to be sinful to interfere with people's destinies.
Love says, 'I need you, that we have interwoven destinies.
I carry it with me to fulfill both our destinies.
It's funny how they have personalities and destinies just like humans.
However, Chinese companies aren't totally in control of their own destinies.
The idea that people could choose their own destinies fascinated me.
And the divergence in destinies was even greater for rural residents.
We are here and we are ready to determine our own destinies.
The people in Star Wars implore one another to fulfill their destinies.
Our life goals, or destinies, as some might say, didn't quite align.
That's how much the casting of a film can alter people's destinies.
Palestinians would have the right to chart their own destinies at last.
There was no immediate risk of expulsion, or less pleasant rooster destinies.
The budding entrepreneurs who sought his counsel wanted to control their own destinies.
Yet programmes aimed at this crucial phase have not yet altered many destinies.
We all have the power to rewrite our own destinies — financial and otherwise.
Perhaps the most profound was a unique sort of control over their destinies.
He looks at the world and sees separate societies managing their own destinies.
Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.
Jewish women in America have forged their own way and crafted their own destinies.
In the first two years, "destinies can be altered," Mr Cameron said this year.
We try to persuade these girls that their destinies are their own to make.
One last warning: These companies are not in control of their own destinies anymore.
"Places can take over the destinies of people who live in them," Horton says.
Don't leave us with nothing We're no children of Martian Summertimes Nor Manifest Destinies.
This has created a divergence in health care destinies, depending on states' political orientation.
And for many of the characters, their destinies have been determined without their input.
The destinies of both men were intertwined with events far beyond their native land.
Fidel didn't merely contain multitudes: He took all of our destinies and redesigned them.
David Bowie, creator of destinies for his own multiple personas, would certainly be pleased.
But with the Trojan War looming, Achilles and Patroclus must face their own heartbreaking destinies.
Or I imagine destinies and horizons that don't happen until after the final credits roll.
But that wordplay is basically the only thing keeping the princesses from their diamond destinies.
In this age of highly personalized and customized connectivity, consumers truly control their online destinies.
They have every expectation that they can control their destinies and most rightfully their bodies.
Basketball is, after all, a game in which destinies can change in matter of seconds.
Another issue is home rule — the tenet that counties and municipalities control their own destinies.
Privately, players discuss the changes that our peers make to their destinies by taking PEDs.
Yet, Howe makes it clear that we cannot truly escape either our destinies or fatalities.
Each of you has the power to change hearts transform lives and shape your country's destinies.
Its director, Bradley Cooper, and Lady Gaga play musicians turned lovers hurtling toward radically different destinies.
The story at the center of this book is the way contingency shaped so many destinies.
Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives and shape your country's destinies.
Both men have lost control of their own destinies, ceding the real power to their partners.
It was Callen who pioneered the idea of patients' proudly controlling their own destinies and treatments.
Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives and shape your countries' destinies.
You want these characters to make it, and their destinies are compelling to behold. (drafthouse.com/nyc)
And the show does have an endpoint, with the destinies of the characters very much mapped out.
IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, as Auguste Comte, a French philosopher, once said, then China has many destinies.
"You want companies that are in control of their own destinies from a distribution standpoint," Boss said.
They set out to forge their own futures, determine their own destinies, and follow their own faith.
For all its sci-fi twists, ABC's Lost was always a show about people finding their destinies.
Now we must become the driving force of our own destinies, able to make our own decisions.
"Your Name" is a body switching story, but it's also about tradition and impermanence, disasters and destinies.
" Sorvino adds, "I feel like we're put on Earth to not only fulfill our destinies but to serve.
Not, you know, just victims, or someone's girlfriend, but independent women who are in control of their destinies.
I've spent the last few months visiting scrappy cities all over America that are charting their own destinies.
It's the transformation of gossip into a dynamic, palpable force that shapes both collective societies and individual destinies.
We Cubans do not surrender, nor do we accept laws about our destinies that are outside the Constitution.
THE Propeller Group is an artist collective that addresses the mingled destinies of the United States and Vietnam.
Could it inspire parents to push their specifically-enhanced children toward predetermined destinies that could make them miserable?
Angela believes deeply—and Tubman did too—that black people must be able to determine our own destinies.
Admirers hail it as a job market in which workers are, finally, in control of their own destinies.
In Queen Elizabeth II, both of them will have had the perfect model for their own respective destinies.
This is a place where greatness is born, where destinies are forged, and where legends come to life.
It would be an overstatement to say that their destinies have been intertwined — but not a huge one.
Through a series of unintended consequences, algorithms have inadvertently become the invisible rulers that control the destinies of millions.
The fate of the galaxy is never at play, nor are the destinies of any of its familiar faces.
They're either on the sidelines, helping white witches fulfill their destinies, or evil voodoo queens straight from central casting.
Discover your own best dressed wedding guest destinies and share the, "I actually bought this," love with us below.
At worst, knowing these visions only makes characters fulfill their own ill-fated destinies in attempts to avoid it.
Despite everything he says about Handmaids being women acting out their "biological destinies," Waterford treats them like actual mistresses.
And in those candid conversations, we got the feeling that the women were taking charge of their own destinies.
To a first-time visitor, the village does not look like the contested linchpin of two dueling national destinies.
Her key characters are usually young black African women who overcome present obstacles in order to shape their own destinies.
Our destinies are in our hands, and that control is so broad, so unprecedented, that apocalypse is within our grasp.
The hope is that the app will allow girls to decide their own destinies, but it also raises safety concerns.
It is unseating us as masters of our own destinies and distorting the fabric of reality as we know it.
The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended to the destinies of the quick.
President Trump and Congress have promised to boost American job stability while giving workers greater control over their economic destinies.
"War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here," Margo Jefferson wrote in The Times in 22003.
After all, aren't fairy tale heroines famously passive; don't they always leave their destinies in the hands of their princes?
Still, the two manifest their destinies and indulge themselves in the village, getting into bar brawls and boozing with prostitutes.
It lives also in peoples' minds and bodies, in their eyes and destinies and maybe in their most hidden memories.
Things are never the same after an eclipse—but they bring us closer to our destinies, which is pretty exciting.
They empowered villagers to take control of their destinies by educating them and assigning monitors to keep watch over water sources.
In this one, he portrays the courageous determination of African-Americans after emancipation trying to take control of their own destinies.
Along with the ballot initiatives passed to support highway projects, states could take a bigger role in their own infrastructure destinies.
Here, amid the myriad complications of the first phase of life, addiction and incarceration of relatives are but details, not destinies.
It's also hypocrisy of the highest order, given the Republican Party's long-professed belief in letting states set their own destinies.
"This is a novel about a man whose professional and personal destinies are incompatible, a tale of irony and coincidence," explains Turpin.
Its female characters control their own destinies, share intimate sexual relationships with one another, and aren't afraid to answer back to men.
You cannot really track where they are going; they are like water pushed through a pipe, flowing to different locations and destinies.
It also has much to say about the enduring power of a great work of art to affect destinies in real life.
Three possible personalities, vocal ranges, hairstyles, moral qualities and destinies — body and meaning in triplicate, too richly human to be merely symbolic.
Hormonal birth control literally granted women complete reproductive freedom and control over their destinies, something we should not take lightly — or for granted.
With the fantasy of G&G officially dead, buried, and its physical parts scattered or destroyed throughout town, everyone embraces their safest destinies.
The West became great not because of paperwork and regulations but because people were allowed to chase their dreams and pursue their destinies.
The gents pose in a startling variety of crisp, supple fabrics, whose glamour or grittiness echoes Jacob's foretelling of their destinies in Genesis.
" Lacey adds, "There is something poetic about the fate of these two Princes of Wales and they both had destinies they didn't expect.
I'm more concerned about the rich ruling class that has decision-making power and resource power to determine people's destinies within the city.
"Today, it's very difficult to harmonize or equalize all the different destinies or perspectives or situations of all our people," he told me.
She toured college campuses spreading their basic message: The birthrate is dropping, and women need to fulfill their biological destinies to counteract the trend.
While for the foreseeable future our two destinies are linked, Chinese expansion into Africa, South America and the Middle East may eventually change that.
He acknowledges that connecting the dots of people's destinies to the larger significance of history might be a stretch — but thankfully, he can't resist.
As with its other feel-good marketing campaigns, the "Dream Again" campaign aims to encourage women to change their destinies and rewrite their stories.
The story of these intertwined destinies, spanning more than a century, illuminates a changing world as navigated by two remarkable women—three, including Emily.
Still, in their current state, they clearly send across their foreboding message, reminding us of death and the three possible destinies that may await.
Disappointment kills some clubs off, allows them to fulfill their free-market destinies as apartments, high-end gyms, coffee shops, or just empty spaces.
FERRARA, Italy — The paths that lead designers to their destinies — or even just to their studios — are long and winding, and difficult to predict.
But it meant a great deal to the six Hemings-Wayles children, who had very different lives and destinies than others enslaved at Monticello.
Part of what this project is about is remembering the amazing people that passed away and didn't get a chance to fulfill their destinies.
His tale is of two men who more than anyone shaped the city's reputation, and whose destinies became fatally entwined in Old Shanghai's last days.
And perhaps the most ingenious element of Mr. Tucker's production is its use of gossip as the force that shapes the destinies of Austen's characters.
He considers what the inventor could have accomplished if he were on the other side of the shadow-thin curtain that divides destinies. Tufaha. Apple.
EVERY so often a question that seems purely abstract and philosophical passes into the realm of hard reality where people's lives and destinies are determined.
So while Trump only has a few years to upend American lives and livelihoods, Brexit may still be shaping British destinies for generations to come.
After five seasons filled with violence, prostitution, rape, and gratuitous boob shots, season 6 finally finds women playing an active role in their own destinies.
When empires were breaking up in the last century, it seemed self-evident to let former colonies and captive nations determine their own political destinies.
"For today, the women of this nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies," Justice Harry Blackmun, Roe's author, famously wrote in his dissent.
Women, the court said, needed reproductive choice to determine their individual destinies and to participate fully in the economic and social life of the nation.
Yet even with that, after three waves of feminism — and arguably a fourth, with #MeToo — women are still battling to control their bodies and destinies.
"I think the things I'm writing about are relatable, and I can't wait to share my take on self-growth and fulfilling personal destinies with readers."
And because of its limited run (until March 26), we rushed out in the melting slush to have our destinies told by the new mystifying concoction.
I think Bran has an idea of destinies and an idea of fate, so he kind of has a foggy picture of where things are going.
Lenny and I co-wrote a book, "Love Conquers All," about the power we have as human beings to change our destinies and to overcome obstacles.
Ljungman said Europe needed to boost later-stage access to capital to ensure more companies stay put, get bigger and keep control of their own destinies.
His latest endeavor will have guests venturing between 27 rooms, their destinies determined by the decisions they make from the moment they walk in the door.
While it is a linear time impossibility that our future destinies are performing for us today, the message behind the theme I think has deep resonance.
"Inland" is half magical, half historical fiction: the braided tale of two unusual characters scratching a life from a harsh landscape, whose destinies will surely collide.
Kids who discover they have supernatural destinies are a fantasy staple, and the series couples that with the pangs of growing up, juggling friends and romances.
At the same time, we see from the Second Temple period onward the development of the idea that different souls have different destinies immediately after death.
At the same time, we see from the Second Temple period onward the development of the idea that different souls have different destinies immediately after death.
What do you think about Silicon Valley's obsession with this idea of, I don't know, controlling their own destinies in some way when it comes to health?
While so much fantasy is based around characters with great destinies, Harrow urges Callum to ignore any imagined constraints on his fate and forge his own path.
Women whose individual histories, passions, and decisions carve out an idiosyncratic plot — not ones whose destinies are predetermined by a premise made musky by time and overuse.
While Javier Zamora's lovers may not have to contend with feuding families nor navigate the ethnic minefields of "West Side Story," their destinies are star-crossed nevertheless.
We are, for the most part, big talkers with meager destinies, at the mercy of luck, global capitalism (which was a thing even then) and one another.
The performers are creating the environment for the lives to be lived here, which makes the characters feel quite literally like the architects of their own destinies.
Is it really possible to break our creators' decrees, or are we programmed to fulfill functions, conforming to our destinies no matter what we think we're doing?
So in a world without justice, and in the midst of moral chaos, men like Nick Diaz have to find a way to control their own destinies.
Autofiction emerged at a time that felt like a historical correction, a period of unabashed idealism that placed us firmly at the center of our own destinies.
Only two of them, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias, have the power or the resources to terminate the lives of millions and affect the destinies of billions more.
For each, the knowledge turns out to be both a blessing and curse, and all must try to balance their desires and choices with their predetermined destinies.
The mothers of this country can shape the destinies of the nation by keeping in their places and attending to those duties that God Almighty intended for them.
The wisdom at the time was that destinies were being driven by high-risk, high-return trading businesses tapping into a global finance boom centered largely in London.
"Modern scholars believe that this was one way the Icelanders tried to control their destinies in a land and climate that was incredibly harsh and unforgiving," she said.
A true fighter for the concept's original ideal of equality between the sexes would encourage women to work hard and to believe in their own responsibilities and destinies.
Roughly 700 journalists will descend on Miami on Wednesday, a reminder that in the era of Donald J. Trump television still has the power to determine candidates' destinies.
Quarantine is one of the many waiting rooms of life, and its own special circle of hell for people raised with the illusion that we control our destinies.
Last summer, two defensemen from opposing conferences with distinct styles of play and contrasting personalities were forever placed in the same breath, their destinies intertwined by a trade.
But it has a failure mode, and that failure mode is to pit us against one another so we have adversarial exclusive destinies, where my success is your loss.
Based on this video, Theron's continuing the mission she pursued with Mad Max: Fury Road to highlight "the power of women and the power to create our own destinies."
Their story is highly particular, rooted in the idiosyncrasies of their families and also in an almost invisible crime, a tendril of evil that wraps itself around their destinies.
She said the film was "in part a story of the power of women and the power to create our own destinies," dedicating her win to "all the Furoisas".
And if we think that democracy is a good idea and people ought to have a say in shaping their destinies, then banishing them from the discussion is morally criminal.
In a genre that's largely defined by its hero-villain dichotomy, Ward was the (relatively) ordinary guy who reminded us that good and evil aren't preordained destinies, but everyday choices.
"What I had experienced throughout my life in advocacy was that women and families, on every level, thrive when women are in charge of their reproductive destinies," Hogue tells me.
As long as large groups of Americans feel unheard and disenfranchised, increasingly insignificant and powerless over their dwindling destinies, then whoever buzzes their way through the establishment bulwark becomes mesmerizing.
THE greatest of all South-East Asia's waterways and the world's 12th-longest river, the Mekong, is a natural wonder that ties together the destinies of half a dozen countries.
We try to persuade these girls that their destinies are their own to make – they can help break the cycle of abuse in their own lives and in their families.
For the past decade on the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy wielded more influence over the lives and destinies of millions of Americans than any single person who wasn't president.
In this book, which aims to be "a collage of images, a kaleidoscope of destinies," Poirier succeeds in constructing a sense of how Paris may have felt during those years.
"Star Wars Forces of Destiny" will "remain true to the Star Wars canon, showing how choices both big and small ultimately shape the destinies of beloved characters," the post read.
A #SexStrike is another way for people who have the potential to get pregnant to call attention to this systematic onslaught and assert the power to change our own destinies.
"Our destinies are intimately bound and it is note possible nor desirable to go it alone in Europe," Loiseau said during a question and answer session in the French parliament.
Google Fiber, which exists under the Access division of Google parent company Alphabet, is positioning this as a liberating choice for consumers to take control of their media-viewing destinies.
And may that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity.
"The usual image of a Ukrainian member of parliament is a guy with a big belly and a lot of money, sitting in the Rada deciding people's destinies," Zalishchuk said.
Both have an eye for the swerves and accidents — the kinks of fate and the tangles of desire — that so often determine the destinies and undermine the intentions of individuals.
In the film Sliding Doors (1998) we follow Gwyneth Paltrow's two parallel destinies: In one scenario she catches her train to work one morning, and in the other she misses it.
Believing in our destinies allows our subconscious minds to begin thinking of ways to take us towards our goals, both while we sleep and while we go about our daily lives.
Stars, even the biggest ones, like to project an aura of free will: They choose their own projects, they produce their own content, they are the masters of their own destinies.
As the speed and efficiency of computer processing increases at predictable rates, our ability to author our own destinies is being consumed by a conjured figment of our imagination: the internet.
Funny women in control of their own destinies existed on television before Elaine, but Elaine was the first one who was simply allowed to unapologetically be whatever she wanted to be.
I will continue to fight against these politicians and be a champion of choice for the right of my daughter, my wife, and all other women to control their own destinies.
" This Goddess was unquestionably the supreme deity to rule them all; "creator and law-maker of the universe, prophetess, provider of human destinies, inventor, healer, hunter and valiant leader in battle.
They will later show up to play peekaboo, among other games, with audience members, and to argue heatedly over their destinies during a Thanksgiving dinner featuring a prophesy-spouting fetus turkey.
Into a classical frame—unity of time and of place—Guilloux sets a riotous cast of some twenty main characters whose destinies combine and reverberate in a series of short episodes.
Here Woody and the gang are waylaid at a carnival, where they reunite with Little Bo Peep, but have to face the possibility that life may send them on separate destinies.
None of this absolves some of the key players from culpability in the crime, much less their sins as parents and caregivers, but their destinies aren't entirely their own to determine.
And then there is the concept of control: So many characters struggle to take command of their own destinies, even though with the time travel element, it is a futile battle.
And from what we're told by that omnipresent, mythologizing female chorus, made up of relatives from the village that Joy left years ago, we know that the grimmest of destinies awaits her.
Safe, legal, and accessible abortion plays a huge role in giving women the opportunity to determine their own destinies, and it's an issue that matters to millions of people across the country.
"A #SexStrike is another way for people who have the potential to get pregnant to call attention to this systematic onslaught and assert the power to change our own destinies," she wrote.
Do we more effectively shape the world by setting out to redeem and pacify it, or by tending to our own affairs and allowing other countries to work out their own destinies?
Even casual science fiction fans will have seen it all before via films like "Star Wars": knights and the need to restore the old order and lots of mysticism about genetic destinies.
Fame pulled it out of them like magnets, the weird personal connections, the destinies, the universe wanting things for them, or needing them to go through things first, to help them learn.
He left saying that they should be willing to be barred if it meant athletes had greater control over their destinies rather than being limited to competitions controlled by the governing body.
I can see why the advice is framed like this: By telling women it's their fault, the advice promises that we're able to change the situation — we're the masters of our own destinies!
In less than an hour, the characters we love and loathe decide their destinies in one of three ways: complying with their true nature, taking an alternate but momentary route, or genuinely changing.
And it is in a remote boathouse at the far reaches of Manhattan Beach that the destinies of Anna, Eddie and Dexter ultimately come to fruition — albeit at three different moments in time.
Bottom line is that it is remarkable that two men in their 60s, who have faced 12 years of the fiercest headwinds imaginable for their industry remain in control of their own destinies.
Woman-directed films from Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman to Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird have proven that women can be in control of their own destinies and sexual desires without going to the dark side.
African American soldiers returning home after fighting in Europe in the 1914-18 war for democracy were asking themselves how to obtain real freedom, true democracy and an ability to shape their own destinies.
In Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution, Losos decided to explore the question of the extent to which evolutionary fate is predetermined versus whether it's a quirky outcome of particular circumstances.
Back in Chicago, Marty and Wendy were keeping secrets from each other but the constant fear of gruesome destinies for them and their children have unified them, like an extreme form of couples therapy.
That is a reminder that while the stock market can withstand political stress, it is one of the many victims of recessions, which throw people out of work, destroy wealth and alter political destinies.
Goss' women aren't willing to play ball, and unlike their often solitary creators (who occupy labs, remote islands, and castles), they work together to take control of their own destinies, and stop the brutal murders.
Tribes like mine and others in our Native Farm Bill Coalition are optimistic about the future of Indian Country – one in which tribes are proactively working to improve and take control of our food destinies.
She's shooting her allies, but this is the kind of choice I have to make as the all-seeing, all-skillful eye in the sky that controls the destinies of the people in this timeline.
Still, if you back up enough, it makes sense to think of urban destinies as a random process of wins and losses in which small cities face a relatively high likelihood of experiencing gambler's ruin.
"I don't think we've ever been more aware of our 'connectedness' on this planet...our shared destinies...and yet that awareness causes us to shelter our own identities, to protect ourselves from each other," she said.
Throughout the story, the characters share their very different perspectives on twisty, cosmic destinies and the big picture, discussing topics from astronomer Carl Sagan to the Big Bang — things the author, Yoon, was also fascinated by.
This should be deeply concerning to anyone who believes women should be allowed to make decisions about their bodies and control their destinies, and we now look to the courts to defend our essential human rights.
"You get the flip side of 'Game of Thrones' in that it really is the women this time slugging out their own destinies and turning the wheels of fate, rather than the male characters," she said.
Details—calabashes of millet beer; medicines of ebony roots, baobab leaves, and dawadawa bark; the "square, brown leather talismans" on soldiers' smocks—immerse us in the era, and the destinies of Attah's characters express wider disruptions.
Directed by Guy Blaché, who had her own production company, Solax, the film is fascinatingly perched between theater and cinema, and — like Ms. Green's documentary — a reminder of when female directors freely charted their own destinies.
They have a deep, chilling fear that Roe v Wade (the anniversary of which is today) will actually be overturned and they will lose control not only of their bodies but of their basic rights and destinies.
Since the discovery of marine larvae, ecologists have believed all the different species—from baby shrimp to crabs to lobster—were at the mercy of strong currents, with little to no control over their own dispersal destinies.
And the French, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians -- they're proud of their countries, they control their destinies -- they don't think that the people inside that building are a threat, and neither do I from Great Britain.
Most people, including the main character's parents, see their children's destinies as already decided; only time separates the boys growing up in the region from beginning factory work, just like their fathers and grandfathers did decades before.
As the name implies, Civilization V is a game about civilizations, and it allows you to control their destinies by founding cities, acquiring resources, and choosing the optimal forms of government, religion, and technology as they grow.
"The abortion ban limits women's rights to pursue their own destinies and violates their rights to health by limiting their access to safe and timely procedures," the court said in a statement as quoted by The Guardian.
In Britain, many who voted in June 2016 to leave the European Union did so, they said, out of resentment of outsiders' influence over their destinies and the presence of what they saw as unchecked European immigrants.
Sounding more like a foreign than an interior minister, dropping the names of philosophers and classical authors as he goes, he offers a vision of the intertwined destinies of Europe and Africa, based on security, demography and economics.
"Only by opening legal, secure, stable and sustainable routes for those seeking protection will it be possible to prevent desperate people putting their own and their children's destinies in the hands of traffickers," he said in a statement.
"We want our partners in the region to be strong, independent and prosperous, in control of their own destinies, and satellites to no one," Trump said on Monday at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Manila.
The destinies of Alexander V. Litvinenko, poisoned to death in 22012 by radioactive Polonium 22012, and Sergei V. Skripal, listed Monday as critically and thus far inexplicably ill in a British hospital, carry similarities that cannot be ignored.
Like Clarissa, Frances is awed by, and more than a little attracted to, her fantastic friend, who speaks her mind with such free, natural authority and seems to be beyond the range of standard human destinies and disappointments.
The national advocacy group "litigates to limit the size and scope of government power and to ensure that all Americans have the right to control their own destinies as free and responsible members of society," according to its website.
Even though I'd settle for any of the positive sprinkle-destinies, my heart was set on a more complex purple future — it held answers to a few burning questions on my mind: Will I magically become a morning person?
But I just felt, having seen my sister live through this and knowing what a personal experience it was, it was important to make sure they had the opportunity to consent in every way and really control their destinies.
Rather than making the case that singleness is superior to coupledom, she argues that its spread is both a product and cause of women's expanding power to determine their own destinies — and what could be more exciting than that?
To tell his story, Vargas Llosa employs the familiar telenovela technique of alternating chapters among different characters, allowing the destinies of the lowborn and the high, the powerful and the powerless, to intersect in ways they themselves never see.
While Ms. See punctuates the novel with evocative references to customs and rituals ("The Expel Birds Festival," the "Day of Sorrow and Worry" preceding a wedding), she also illustrates how Lily's and Snow Flower's destinies take tragically different directions.
Studying surveys of college students over several decades and controlling for life circumstances and demographics, they compared people who associated their destinies with luck and outside forces with those who believed they were more in control of their lives.
"It's important to own the shares of companies that have a greater-than-average degree of control over their own destinies, whether that's through the loyalty of customers, the provision of essential products and services, strong balance sheets," he noted.
The difficulty lies in finding a halfway house between the total isolation of, say, the Sentinelese, and absorption (ie, where peoples can retain their heritage and decide their own destinies yet still benefit from some of the advantages of modern life).
Tsai's foreign minister Joseph Wu also blasted the Hong Kong administration on Twitter, saying the "paths & destinies" of both territories are linked as "we both live under the shadow of the #CCP regime," he posted, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
And for 21st-century Americans, primed to believe that we can choose how we want to conduct our lives regardless of what kind of family we come from, the idea that we actually don't control our own destinies is truly horrifying.
While we tend to focus on the big-ticket destinies, whether it's Daenerys Targaryen emerging triumphantly from the flames last week or Jon Snow rising from the dead to fight again, the smaller figures have their own slots to fill.
Looking back at human history, the liberal democratic experiment - with its Enlightenment-derived belief in the capacity of individuals possessed of certain inalienable rights to shape their destinies in liberty through the exercise of their will — is but a brief interlude.
" Allis referenced numerous slurs Native people have faced for hundreds of years "that the forces of racism and intolerance deploy to dehumanize our people, mock our cultures, and interfere with our inherent right to control our own lands and destinies.
Tracing the entwined destinies of two men born on the same day at the dawn of the 20th century — one a peasant, the other an aristocrat — the film follows its characters through several decades of Italian political and social upheavals.
They all wound up relocating in splashy deals that had been nudged along by the players themselves, as the modern game's biggest names continued to exhibit a greater measure of control over their own destinies than their predecessors ever enjoyed.
Moreci's book reflects this attitude: it's clearly an homage to the film franchise, but it takes the things like starfighter battles, fight scenes, and characters struggling with larger destinies and fights of good against evil, and reimagines them in a new mode.
"We see in the unceremonious actions of Washington a new demonstration of total disregard for the norms and principles of international law, an attempt to play the role of the self-proclaimed arbiter of the destinies of other nations," the statement reads.
Instead, volunteers could reassure women that by carrying their pregnancies to term they were fulfilling their natural destinies as mothers, staving off a litany of woes, from promiscuity to suicide, while standing up to men who wanted sex with no strings attached.
So instead, an entire generation of feminist and postfeminist women who stormed the barricades of the American work force, planned their reproductive destinies, and even got their partners to fold the laundry occasionally are now engaged in an odd sort of collective self-delusion.
Whether you believe in gods or aliens or neither, the profound feelings that these Odyssean tales evoke seems to spring from a common human premonition that we are not alone in the universe, and that our destinies have been shaped by inscrutable supernatural forces.
And yet, these characters, all of them, endure precisely because they seem to want to be known not as one of a gendered group — not as emblematic little women or pioneer girls — but as individuals, solo acts, heroes of their own, however limited, destinies.
In The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Chiang notes that while our destinies may be fixed, and even if we had a time machine, we couldn't change the past to affect our futures, he essentially argues that the journey itself is often its own reward.
"The Power of the Dog" is, in brief, about the first decades that bind the destinies of Art Keller, a Vietnam veteran and later D.E.A. agent, and Adán Barrera, a young Mexican who will go on to achieve the most dizzying heights of power.
If Barack Obama leveraged his influence and platform to help the entrepreneurs of red-state America shape their own destiny—and by extension the destinies of the communities they call home—it would help change the way this part of the country perceives the Democratic Party.
"He also defends the Constitution's unique system of federalism and he restricts the national government to the specific and enumerated powers enshrined in the Constitution while leaving to the states much more sizable control over their lives and destinies," Pence said of the federal circuit court judge.
Tsui Sing-Yun, a physician-turned-historian, recently published (in Hong Kong and Taiwan only) a 456-page book entitled "The City-state of Anguish: The Origin and History of the Hong Kong People," which argues that Hong Kong and China have few commonalities and different destinies.
" He paid tribute to "[a] rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye.
The joy of reading these books is found in the way they capture the rhythm of life in all its ordinariness, interspersed with the occasional devastating observation or character snapshot and the precise distillation of one or two events that, unbeknownst to us at the time, steer our destinies.
"We seek an Indo-Pacific — from the United States to India, from Japan to Australia, and everywhere in between — where sovereignty is respected, where commerce flows unhindered and where independent nations are masters of their own destinies, " Pence wrote in a Washington Post commentary ahead of his visit.
That's taking our nation backward to a time when a woman didn't have the right to to decide whether, when, and with whom to grow a family—to a time when countless women lost their lives in back alleys and on kitchen tables trying to determine their own destinies.
His 12 sons, by contrast, fill the height of each six-and-a-half-foot canvas; they pose frontally, in profile or from behind, and they wear a startling variety of crisp, supple fabrics, whose glamour or grittiness echoes Jacob's foretelling of their destinies in the Book of Genesis.
Similarly, as I described earlier this year in my book, Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It, hundreds of cities and localities across the country have taken their destinies into their own hands by calling for the construction of fiber-optic internet access networks.
The setting is an original fantasy world that makes references to works beyond genre fiction - apart from Swan Lake, the Weavers echo how the Fates of Greek Mythology wove people's destinies, and the green city of the Glass Blowers is reminiscent of Wizard of Oz, to name but a few.
Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog, the White Rat—it was a nickname he welcomed, saying, "Anything is better than Dorrel, I suppose"—had a folksy way of speaking, a billiards-table precise flat-top, and a knack for thwarting the righteous destinies of coastal elites like the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers.
The Truman Doctrine was not only a policy to contain Soviet influence and the spread of communism but also a declaration that the United States "must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way," as Truman told a joint session of Congress in March 1947.
"To each of these places, I have carried our vision for a better — a vision for something stronger and sovereign — so important — sovereign and independent nations, rooted in their histories, confident in their destinies, and cooperating together to advance their security, prosperity and the noble cause of peace," Mr. Trump said.
By recasting in verse such mythological and historical stories as those of Myrrha and King Cinyras, or retracing the fallen friendship between Jamuqa and Genghis Khan, or transforming Raphael's great painting "School of Athens" into a nightmare of competing ideologies, Bidart exhibits how cyclical and fated are all of our destinies.
If anyone doubted his taste for stylistic extravagance, the titles of some of his books — like "The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B." (22014), the story of a man whose only happy affair was with his nanny, and "The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman" (21969) — made that point on their own.
It's a philosophical failure, the result of a long-term attenuation in the idea of an Atlantic community — the West — united not only by a shared history or common enemies, but also by a unifying set of ethical and political ideals, and the sense that those ideals entwine our destinies.
In children's and young-adult literature, stories that grapple with the often unsettling emotions of children are hardly rare, but wide-release films made for kids still tend to stick to comedy, or offer fantasies of pint-size, one-dimensional heroes who overcome mean enemies and fulfill their triumphant destinies.
The closest she seems to have come was her 2004 story collection, "My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past," which she describes as "alternative destinies" — one of which, "Ménage," in which a writer looks back on a love triangle involving her mother and aunt, is included in this book.
In a landmark speech at an antiwar rally in April 1965, Paul Potter, the president of Students for a Democratic Society, asked: ''What kind of system is it that justifies the United States or any country seizing the destinies of the Vietnamese people and using them callously for its own purpose?
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," he said.
As she struggles to break out of the patterns into which she was born, the movie suggests — with none-too-subtle references to Greek tragedy and glimpses of the outlandishly eerie autobiographical dioramas that Annie makes for a living — that the characters are not the ones in control of their own destinies.
The Nakba will end when Jewish schoolchildren learn the culture of Arab Palestinians, just as Arab children learn Jewish history and culture, when they study the history of all the indigenous peoples of the land, when Palestinian children grow up with the freedom to move and live and determine their own destinies.
As a woman, [I think] anyone who identifies as a woman [should] challenge the idea of what a woman's craft is, and if it is a woman's craft, reclaim it and use it as an activist's tool to make sure that we have the right to our bodies, our choices, and our destinies.
As progressives, we know we cannot have a real conversation about economic security that does not include the ability to decide if, when, and how to raise a family; that being able to plan a pregnancy has a powerful effect on educational attainment, career trajectory, and chance to define our own destinies.
In this environment, FANG and its ilk can be scorned, but they'll ultimately be embraced because the one correlation that's held up is that when the economy slows, you need to buy stocks of companies that can control their own destinies, and that's exactly what tech has going for it right now.
Letter From Europe LONDON — It was a time known to its detractors as a decade of hubris, when Western powers deployed the muscular military tactics of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the opening years of the 21st to project their power in flawed attempts to forge distant national destinies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But this is almost a Tolstoyan version of history awakening, meaning that as Leo Tolstoy suggested in his later writings, countries would form and evolve from their own desires and destinies if left alone by politicians; find their own friends, make their own enemies and build their own arts, religions and worlds direct from nature.
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," he said in an announcement video.
They're both JRPGs that tell simplistic stories of fallen kingdoms, heroic destinies, and a grand battle between light and dark, but Dragon Quest XI is so bogged down by mechanical comfort food mechanics that it mostly feels like a game you should use to waste time instead of having an actively good time with it.
"Romance in Marseille," like his sprawling 1929 classic "Banjo," also set in the south of France, shows McKay presciently grappling with the destinies of those he calls the "outcasts and outlaws of civilizations" — migrants in thriving port cities central to the flow of global commerce — and with the violent upheavals and desperate striving that deposited them there.
"The comments today made by Mike Pence, who lives and breathes an anti-choice agenda, are indicative of how much this Administration is trying to 'normalize' the idea of a world in which women don't get to decide their own destinies or control their own bodies," Kaylie Hanson Long, communications director for NARAL, said in statement provided to Refinery29.
Unlike Westworld, which gave its female characters a narrative arc in which they progressively take charge of their own destinies, or Good Time Girls, which stars Laura Dern and her posse of fierce ladies as gunslingers hell-bent on seeking revenge on the men who have wronged them, the women of Godless don't drive the action.
They see their own political platforms and economic base being threatened should the citizens they claim to represent one day wake up and realize that the door is open for them to take their destinies into their own hands and cut out the greedy middle men — local politicians and a school system mired in dysfunction, mismanagement, fraud and decay.
The two struck an unlikely bond after working together on the 'First Never Follows' Adidas Football campaign, but it's through a shared understanding of what Stormzy wanted to achieve that allowed them to bring GSAP the film—which was to allow young people to see they have control over their own destinies, despite external roadblocks and barriers—to life.
On the morning of Friday, June 24, Britain woke up to the cold wet fish of a Major Change smashing into their collective mush––but not, I warrant, in the Valley of Eavis, for here there were more important matters afoot than the destinies of millions; namely, the kicks of a couple of hundred thousand revelers.
This is not to say that Oprah (or Jordan) had sold out, or to claim anything as simplistic as that, but it seems worth mentioning the twinned destinies of those two black Midwesterners, representing the crossover (in more ways than one for Jordan), 22019 years after Berry Gordy aggressively promoted the concept in Detroit, with Motown.
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," Booker said in an announcement video published online Friday morning.
"The idea that we can author our own visual destinies, make up our own rules, turn our backs — literally — on physical limitations, is no doubt the reason that Kahlo's unflinching gaze continues to stare out from what seems like a million mood boards in a million ateliers," Lynn Yaeger, a Vogue contributor and an idiosyncratic style setter herself, writes in the book's introduction.
And that's to say nothing of the enormous web of decisions that stretches out on all sides of any of us, back into the past and forward into the future, all a series of choices made by other people to bring us to this particular moment, where we feel at once masters of our own destiny and trapped by the destinies of others.
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," Booker said in the campaign video, walking around the community of Newark, N.J., where he previously served as mayor.
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," Booker narrates in a video released on Friday morning, which features him walking through his Newark neighborhood.
But since you asked me, I will tell you: If we want to continue to have the rights and freedoms that were won in the generations that came before us, if we want gender and racial equality, and if we want the right to control our own bodies and destinies, we are going to have to stand up, speak out and fight for our right to choose.
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When one of Dustin's patients, a police officer on medical leave, begins investigating the seemingly accidental drowning deaths of a series of drunken college men, Dustin is unwittingly reeled into the drama, grateful for the distraction from his own realities: his wife's terminal cancer; his ineffectual status as a husband and father; the probability of losing his rapidly maturing sons, Dennis and Aaron, to whatever baleful destinies they choose.
Astrology — not to be confused with modern astronomy — emerged out of elements from Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek science and philosophy in the last two centuries B.C. Because the heavens and the earth were thought to be connected in so many ways, the destinies of nations as well as individuals presumably could be read by someone with expertise in the arrangements of the sun, the moon, the known planets and constellations in the zodiac.
If we are to embrace the opportunities of the future and overcome the present dangers together, there can be no substitute for strong, sovereign and independent nations; nations that are rooted in their histories and invested in their destinies; nations that seek allies to befriend not enemies to conquer, and most important of all, nations that are home to patriots, to men and women who are willing to sacrifice for their countries, their fellow citizens and for all that is best in the human spirit.
Humans are context-seeking creatures, and this need to feel woven into the world takes many forms: research into family history; pride about one's hometown, state, or country and the specificities of these places that have marked one's character, behavior, and speech; nostalgia for a past when people appeared to have stable destinies, when gender roles, social hierarchies, and the "order of things" seemed clearer, and when inherited categories went uncontested; and the pastoral longing to restore a lost communion with the earth itself.

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