If the fate of your company hinges on the verdict, you will want a brilliant lawyer to argue your case.
But if the fate of other ACPRA members provides any clue of how things might go, the outlook isn't bright for him and Al-Hamid.
Even if the fate of Christians in the Islamic world were far worse, that would not be a reason for the West to mistreat Muslims.
Two leading brokers have been arrested but if the fate of the legendary Harshad Mehta - who single-handedly manufactured a bull market nine years ago - is anything to go by they have little to fear.
And especially the young people who are here, we need you to act with a sense of urgency -- to study and work and create as if the fate of the country depends on you -- because it does.
They seemed so vulnerable, and I worried about their fate if there were a war.
Mr. Armstrong may soon face a similar fate if these latest allegations are eventually corroborated.
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Yulia Timoshenko, a volatile but important ally, had talked darkly about Mr Kuchma's fate if he did not co-operate.
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And no matter what you call your program, the influential folks around the program will decide your fate if you fail to consistently beat Michigan.
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Wherever it leads, the initiative is at least a change from a summer of threats and doom-and-gloom predictions of Quebec's fate if ever it goes its own way.
It is often hard for them to imagine a life outside holy orders, which could be their fate if they alienated the bishop who has a hold over their salary, pension and private life.
The tech bloggers at Gizmodo, which got on Jobs' bad side earlier this year with video of a prototype iPhone 4 before the phone was released, pondered their possible fate if the story was true.
Rosneft gained much of its current heft at the expense of another Russian oligarch whom Putin threw under the bus, and the billionaires of AAR know they could easily meet the same fate if they try to partner with Rosneft as equals.
Earlier this week, NTP co-founder Donald Stout told the press that RIM could avoid that fate if it makes one giant payment, no strings attached, for 5.7% of RIM's projected U.S. sales through the life of the contested patents, which expire in 2012.
If Mr Ocalan deserves his fate, it is not for his aims but for his methods.
Clubs such as Leeds and Luton, who were hit with points deductions themselves after going into administration, would be angry if Southampton avoided such a fate.
The notebook Winter reported on could play a key role in determining Holmes' fate, especially if he changes his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
He has no idea what terrible fate awaits him if he is discovered, but he is sure that they will not let him leave the town alive.
It looked as if he would share the fate of so many of Silicon Valley's must successful entrepreneurs: rich, but unable to take his company, or career, to the next level.
If the caxirola follows the fate of the vuvuzela or rattle, Brazil has a Plan B involving the production of a plastic version of the indigenous pedhua whistle, which mimics bird calls.
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They do not deserve their fate - and if they were to curl up and die as a result of being ejected from league's top table, then the deep reservoir of talent that the area has produced over the years may also dry up.
Then, just a few months after his 30th birthday, in 1985, Jobs was out, and it looked as if he would share the fate of so many of Silicon Valley's must successful entrepreneurs: rich, but unable to take his company, or career, to the next level.
It can only be a short journey (if that's not tempting fate) to his own TV series.
But that fate is less likely if the jobless are simultaneously obliged to keep on actively seeking work.
If others will fare a different fate is still to be seen.
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But he warns that surrender deals in Afghanistan often take days to finalise and there is no certainty that Mullah Omar's fate is settled, if indeed he actually is in Baghran.
And if Brazil could be spared the fate that seems to loom, it would do emerging markets all over the world, not least elsewhere in Latin America, a power of good.
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The sight of colleagues once lionised as corporate bigwigs being led into court in handcuffs, and the fear that a similar fate could await them if they get their sums wrong, seems to have concentrated executive minds.
The sight of colleagues once lionised as corporate heroes being led into court in handcuffs, and the fear that a similar fate could await them if they get their sums wrong, seems to have concentrated executive minds.
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