Unlike a Greek play, where the ending is determined in advance, by fate, human action plays a part.
By fate or good fortune, it coincides with the Day of Saint George.
Mezzo Elizabeth Bishop sang with plush tone as Mother Marie, who is prevented by fate from joining her sisters in death.
In it, characters come, go and then return later, often much changed for better or worse by fate and the passage of time.
If I hadn't been made by fate to call hoboing a venal sin, there's no place I'd rather have been than sitting by the tracks waiting for my next ride.
Supporting successful charter schools helps kids, who by fate were born into areas with poor schools and who have no other alternatives, to attend better schools, go to college and succeed in life.
Of course, in a sense, by choosing to leave his family and move to a place to which he had no connection, he was doing exactly what his parents had done, but, unlike them, he decided to believe that his choosing self had been shaped by fate and family.
The questions raised by the story, and by the fate of young Eva, linger long after the reader turns the last page.
He said he had been motivated by the fate of the Palestinians, the French military presence in Afghanistan and France's ban on the full veil.
"You realize how absolutely blessed you are by the fate of your soul coming down the chute in the United States of America, " she says.
Some fair points are scored who, after all, is not angered by the fate of Nigeria's Ogoni, the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, or agribusinesses exploiting Europe's crazy agricultural policies?
But even granted another two months' grace after that they are now at the kitchen table, backs to each other, arms folded, only turning around to shout the occasional insult, apparently not over-worried by the fate of their children.
Others may be more impressed by the unhappy fate of western agents betrayed by their own spymasters' treachery or incompetence.
Two sorry men who already broke the law by coming in the country illegally chose to hasten their fate by robbing the wrong house with the wrong neighbor watching.
This was once a scheme of about 30, 000 houses, now reduced to 12, 500 by demolition, a fate about to befall the houses viewed by the Tory leader.
Mr. Corzine suddenly was confronted by the same fate he had hoped to avoid.
Shen claims that his club would avoid this fate by promoting gamesmanship, not gambling.
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So far, BindView has avoided that fate by narrowly focusing on areas such as e-mail security.
He was reminded of such a fate by his arch-foe in the occupied territories, Hamas's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.
"You can change your fate by electing a good candidate, " he says.
While Milligan's sketches often faded into incomprehensibility, the Pythons' tighter material was saved from a similar fate by Terry Gilliam's animation links.
Murrin claims to have escaped this fate by taking weakening stock prices as a sign of temporary weakness and going short crude oil.
Malinga then dismissed Saqib Al Hasan and Mohammad Rafique in the same over before Muralitharan sealed Bangladesh's fate by having Shahadat Hossain stumped.
Just as he was appointed prime minister, Mr de Villepin published a book about Napoleon's first 100 days, tempting fate by giving himself that same deadline to reform France.
Portugal, semi-finalists in Germany four years ago, had Ricardo Costa sent off for an off-the-ball clash with Joan Capdevila before the end but by then their fate already looked sealed.
The alternative idea that Cyprus could be spared this fate by a fiscal transfer or direct euro-zone recapitalization of its banks an idea encouraged by some southern euro-zone members was pure pure fantasy.
Would that JFK's party had an ounce of his confidence in the wisdom and judgment of America, deciding its own fate by its own lights, regardless of the wishes of France.
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives wants to force developing countries to accept this fate by resorting to the old and tired method of protectionism.
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