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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
National identity is also an inclusive identity: It considers everyone to be equal, whatever his religion or race, who is willing to assimilate into a nation by sharing the fate and future of a people.
If you add the mystery of Clapham Common to the legacy of back-to-basics, you begin to think that the government is tempting fate by sticking to its plans to publish a consultative paper on the family next week.
But purely from a domestic point of view, it seems beyond odd that Warner Bros. seems to keep tempting fate by attempting to open expensive summer movies during a period where audiences have rejected their pictures in favor of the summer kick-off film again and again.
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The Obama Energy Department rewarded it by thereafter giving the floundering company millions more taxpayer dollars even though its ultimate fate was by then readily apparent.
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The new world bosses and raids will be on a separate Charm table, now powered by Mogu Charms of Fate.
By a quirk of fate, the city has staged the games twice at times of austerity (as well as in 1908).
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Now, by Saturday, your fate is sealed - and everybody knows it.
By a twist of fate, he stays frozen for over fifty years, emerging with enough of his Dudley Do-Right manliness intact to impress single mom Jamie Lee Curtis, her young son Elijah Wood, and even her dull suitor Nicholas Surovy.
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