Most historians agree that " the establishment of Frankish power in western Europe shaped that continent's destiny and the Battle of Tours confirmed that power.

Some, such as Thomas Jefferson, made explicit that Manifest destiny was not only a belief that the United States was a rejection of the monarchist traditions of Europe in favor of republicanism but Europe's social conditions from its densely packed population.

The destiny of the Malta was to be decided by the events occurring in Europe during this period.

Noted Voltaire, " this dish of mushrooms changed the destiny of Europe.

Influenced strongly by Karl Barth and other dialectical theologians of Europe, he began to emphasize the Bible as a human record of divine self-revelation ; it offered for Niebuhr a critical but redemptive reorientation of the understanding of man's nature and destiny.

Fascinated with Miranda's account of his exploits in the American Revolutionary War and his travels throughout the Americas and Europe, Goethe told him that, " Your destiny is to create in your land a place where primary colours are not distorted .” He proceeded to clarify what he meant:

Fascinated with Miranda's account of his exploits in the United States Revolutionary War and his travels throughout the Americas and Europe, Goethe told him that, " Your destiny is to create in your land a place where primary colors are not distorted .” He proceeded to clarify what he meant by this:

However, Marulić's Latin works of devotional and religious provenance, once adored and envied across Europe, shared the destiny that befell the Humanist genre of those centuries: they vanished into oblivion.

Mosley detected a linear growth within British history and he saw Europe a Nation as the culmination of this destiny.

Wolfe Tone wrote in frustration that " The destiny of Europe might have been changed for ever.

The most important migratory destiny for Latin Americans are the United States, Western Europe, Canada and Australia.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The show was colorful, indeed, exuberant, but the press for all its assiduity could detect no note of a fateful rendezvous with destiny.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

It was her destiny ; ;

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

He made it clear from the beginning that this was the students' opportunity, and that the future destiny of such groups depended on favorable results from this one.

Man, through democratic institutions of government and economic freedom, was master of his destiny.

This was also applicable to Greece as a whole ; " their victory endowed the Greeks with a faith in their destiny that was to endure for three centuries, during which western culture was born ".

This was not a problem because they all had a strong affinity with the polis ; their own destiny and the destiny of the community were strongly linked.

Thereafter, the United Kingdom was formally absolved of any remaining responsibility for, or jurisdiction over, Canada and Canada became responsible for her own destiny.

While he was sick with a fever, he professed his full belief in Christ and asked God to take control of his destiny.

Jadwiga's destiny as Austrian consort was a better fit for Hungary, as it was an immediate neighbor of Austria.

He cheerfully made the heavy sacrifices that science demands from its disciples, without envy or bitterness ; although he lived apart from his fellow men, he was full of human sympathies, and has had a profound influence on the destiny of mankind.

Kahane argued that there was a glory in Jewish destiny, which came through the observance of the Torah.

In his youth, he had no mystical inclinations or experiences, and was " ntroubled as yet by a sense of his own destiny ..." He was more interested in sports, especially cricket, and was co-captain of his high school cricket team.

Mein Kampf said Germany's destiny was to turn " to the East " as it did " six hundred years ago " and " the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a State.

Moksha Patam was associated with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting karma and kama, or destiny and desire.

Upon release in August 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War.

At this stage in his life Piazzolla was tired of tango and at first, he tried to hide his tanguero past and his bandoneon compositions from Boulanger, thinking that his destiny lay in classical music.

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

Chicago committed numerous critical errors and were outscored 20 – 6 in a Dodger sweep, which provided yet another sudden and stunning ending to what had once been looked at as a season of destiny.

The Council of North African bishops, which included Augustine of Hippo, held at Carthage in 418 did not explicitly endorse all aspects of Augustine's stern view about the destiny of infants who die without baptism, but the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries did adopt his position, and it became a point of reference for Latin theologians in the Middle Ages.

It is estimated that of all the gold entering Spain from the New World between 1531 and 1660, 60 % had arrived at its destiny via the ' Treasure Fleet and Fairs ' system from Nombre de Dios / Portobelo.

Premiered in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, Transcendent Man documents Kurzweil's quest to reveal mankind's ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity Is Near, including his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.

Spock, who notes that " commanding a starship is first, best destiny ", dies at the end of Star Trek II.

He spoke at a meeting organised by Lelewel in February 1848 about a great future for the Slavs, whose destiny was to rejuvenate the Western world.

He became quite successful in the research and development department of the Utsumi toy company, but a chance meeting at a company party in 1919, set the course for his destiny — he was offered a job by director Yoshiro Edamasa, a job that would train him to be a motion picture cameraman.

While Bhutan sees its destiny as being closely linked with that of India, for which reason it strives to promote excellent relations with it, it has also quietly striven to assert its sovereignty at the same time.

Seastrom was always at his best as a visual poet of natural forces impinging on human drama ; in his films, natural forces convey drama and control human destiny.

If neither the Oscar, nor any written trail of its ultimate destiny, can be found at Howard today, she suggested, the reason may be inadequate storage and / or recordkeeping in a time of financial restraints and national turbulence.

In this case those who did good things on earth after meeting their destiny point ; respect the laws of the land ( iwu ala ); died at ripened age and buried according to the traditions of the religion are usually accepted in the spiritual world to answer the final call.

Tukwila's location at the confluence of rivers, freeways and railroads has determined its destiny as a center of commerce.

Huxley's humanism came from his appreciation that mankind was in charge of its own destiny ( at least in principle ), and this raised the need for a sense of direction and a system of ethics.

While the two other plays about Oedipus often bring up the theme of a person's moral responsibility for their destiny, and whether it is possible to rebel against destiny, Oedipus at Colonus is the only one to address it explicitly.

In general Middlemarch has retained its popularity and status as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, although some reviewers have expressed dissatisfaction at the destiny recorded for Dorothea.

While the entire island of Honshū was claimed by the Japanese, or Yamato, government from earliest times as a sort of divine right or manifest destiny, the imperial forces were unable to occupy any part of what would become Iwate until 802 when two powerful Emishi leaders, Aterui and More, surrendered at Fort Isawa.

Peter Bowler wrote that Edward Drinker Cope was a neo-Lamarckian as he believed it allowed living things to be in charge of their own destiny as opposed to the Darwinian view of living things being a puppet at the mercy of the environment.

Nikko is at first reluctant to participate in many of the adventures, but throughout the series, it would appear that there is a hidden destiny for Nikko.

Dr. Elsworth F. Baker ( 1903 – 1985 ), a physician and friend, said at his funeral, " Once in a thousand years, nay once in two thousand years, such a man comes upon this earth to change the destiny of the human race.

To know the whole secret of man ’ s existence and destiny, so that we may estimate at no more than their actual value and this life and its relations ; so that we may live in a way to insure the greatest happiness and the least suffering for our fellow-men and ourselves

When he left Andalusia for the last time he appeared to have a vision of his future destiny at the shores of the Mediterranean as he later told his stepson Ṣadr al-dīn al-Qūnawī:

It is human destiny to be controlled by the darkest universal realities and, at the same time, to live life in a human-dreamt world of illusions.