but anyone who would put much trust in any phase of Prolusion 6, except its illusive allusiveness deserves whatever fate may be meted out to him by virtue of the egregiously stilted banter.

Whyte reported that individuals who perceive and believe that their hard work may lead to more successful academic outcomes, instead of depending on luck or fate, persist and achieve academically at a higher level.

The reversal is also a fallacy ( not to be confused with the inverse gambler's fallacy ) in which a gambler may instead decide that tails are more likely out of some mystical preconception that fate has thus far allowed for consistent results of tails.

He feels himself obliged to metamorphose my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself, in order that it may ultimately arrive at the form of economy which will ensure, together with the greatest expansion of the productive powers of

Whereas the origin of the name norn is uncertain, it may derive from a word meaning " to twine " and which would refer to their twining the thread of fate.

Predestination may sometimes be used to refer to other, materialistic, spiritualist, non-theistic or polytheistic ideas of determinism, destiny, fate, doom, or adrsta.

Though invisible, fate may be considered a leading character in the One Thousand and One Nights.

More frequently the nature of the relationship between the two is only hinted at, or is cited as a dreadful example of the fate that may befall kings who allow themselves to be influenced by favourites, and so become estranged from their subjects.

The episode may be seen as a doublet of the fate of Melicertes, where the leap into the sea was that of his mother, Ino.

In addition, the tragic hero may achieve some revelation or recognition ( anagnorisis --" knowing again " or " knowing back " or " knowing throughout ") about human fate, destiny, and the will of the gods.

Their fate remains an enduring mystery, but historians and contemporary popular opinion agree that the princes may have been murdered in the Tower.

The name Svipul may be descriptive of the influence the valkyries have over wyrd or ørlog — a Germanic concept of fate.

The later fate of this crown is not entirely clear, but it may have been returned to Scotland during the negotiations between Robert I of Scotland and Edward II of England ( following the English defeat at Bannockburn in 1314 ) or perhaps was returned to Scotland for use in the coronation of Edward Balliol when he was installed as king of Scots by England in 1332.

:" I think my wife's fate is happier than my own, even though it may not seem so.

Moira may mean portion or share on the distribution of booty ( ίση μοίρα, isi moira, " equal booty "), portion in life, lot, destiny, ( μοίρα έθηκαν αθάνατοι, moiran ethikan athanatoi, " the immortals fixed the destiny ") death-moros-( μοίρα θανάτοιο, moira thanatoio, " destiny of death "), portion of the distributed land., The word is also used for something which is meet and right ( κατά μοίραν, kata moiran, " according to fate, in order, rightly ")

In medieval art, she was depicted as carrying a cornucopia, an emblematic ship's rudder, and the wheel of fortune, or she may stand on the wheel, presiding over the entire circle of fate.

But our satisfaction at the fate of Thersitism may also have its sinister side.

Vanth has been interpreted as a goddess of fate, and using this association, the scroll may contain the destiny of the deceased.

The actual fate of the Istro-Romanian language is very uncertain, because in Istria only about 350 people partly understand it ; its active bilingual speakers are fewer than 200 ( that is, those who openly admit they speak it, the actual number may be greater ), and fewer than 30 children know it now.

The fate of specific buildings may also be traced by Sanborn Maps that were produced of the town during this period.

A modern commentator, Solomon Landers, believes that a plausible alternative is that Jephthah's vow was most likely modified and that she was not in fact sacrificed, but rather, her fate may have been perpetual virginity or solitary confinement.

Between themselves, the Norns weave fate or ørlǫg ( from ór " out, from, beyond " and lǫg " law ", and may be interpreted literally as " beyond law ").

It may still be time to repair the fault, and Brown, missing from their divisions on the left do not come to his call, and fearful for his fate, decides to go in person to inject courage to Lapeña, and make a supreme effort, flank attack.

Parliament cannot dismiss individual ministers ( though members or a House may call for their resignation, or formally resolve to reduce their salary by a nominal amount ), but the House of Commons is able to determine the fate of the entire Government.

But, following the widespread executions and radicalism of the continuing French Revolution, Henry began to fear a similar fate could befall America, which had suffered populist unrest.

Frequently connected with individual totemism are definite ideas about the human soul ( or souls ) and conceptions derived from them, such as the idea of an alter ego and nagualism — from the Spanish form of the Aztec word naualli, " something hidden or veiled "— which means that a kind of simultaneous existence is assumed between an animal or a natural object and a person ; i. e., a mutual, close bond of life and fate exists in such a way that in case of the injury, sickness, or death of one partner, the same fate would befall the other member of the relationship.

He warns that a similar fate will befall Scrooge unless he changes his ways and that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits.

Duranty said that, just as the Bolsheviks had eliminated the ruling class of the Czarist regime, so would the same fate now befall the kulaks, whom he numbered at 5, 000, 000.

: What fate will befall the gods,

Unable to withstand the onslaught, the Cumans fled to Rus ’ warning the princes that if they refused to send aid the same fate would befall them.

In the 2002 – 03 season, Milošević played for RCD Espanyol, again finishing as his side's top scorer but narrowly escaping relegation, a fate that would befall him in the following year with Celta de Vigo ( still owned by Parma ), helping the Galicians reach the round of 16 in their first ever appearance in the UEFA Champions League, with one goal in seven appearances, in a 3 – 2 group stage home win against AFC Ajax.

Knowing the horrific fate that will befall the man when the bomber hits the water, Cattermole decides to put him out of his misery and shoots him dead.

In winning the 1994 Cup final, Keenan managed to avoid becoming the first coach in NHL history to lose a Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals with two different teams ( the fate which would befall Babcock in losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The poem expresses his deep concern and worry for his country's fate, his pity for the people of Chu, and his anger at the country's self-indulgent ruler who had allowed this tragedy to befall them.

Uddhava was plunged in grief thinking of the fate that would befall the world in the Age of the Demon during his absence.

This may have increased the resolve of the defenders who were now aware what fate would befall them if they surrendered.

As author Douglass Shand-Tucci later wrote, " Kameny was the most conventional of men, focused utterly on his work, at Harvard and at Georgetown .... He was thus all the more rudely shocked when the same fate befell him as we've seen befall Prescott Townsend, class of 1918, decades before .... He was arrested.

It is one of the very few movies about German Judaism that does not have the Shoah in the centre, but is a comedy about the crazy twists and turns of fate that befall a family that finds itself again.

Hera almost caught Zeus with a mistress named Io, a fate avoided by Zeus turning Io into a beautiful white heifer.

Given the recent lynching of Roy Belton, a white man, they believed that Rowland was greatly at risk of meeting a similar fate.

The writer described the fate of an elderly woman who was supposedly the last white person living in her street.

told me about the fate of most black fighters, ones with white managers, who wound up burned-out and broke before they reached their prime.

The commission was at the same time unequivocal about the continuation of white political privilege, it stated that " In South Africa, we the White men, cannot leave and cannot accept the fate of a subject race ".

In The Famous Flower of Serving-Men, the heroine's murdered husband appears to the king as a white dove, lamenting her fate over his own grave.

While the ultimate fate of Stan's soul is decided by a copy of Stan in a white uniform, Prince acts as a prosecuting attorney, arguing for why Stanley deserves eternal torment on Fire rather than eternal happiness on Water.

* Mike Harding's 1989 folk protest song Shaky Isles mentions the fate of the atoll in the lines " Black mist on Maralinga, grey snow on Rongelap, white sun under Mururoa.

GRU agent Vladimir Rezun, known for his controversial books under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov, following his defection from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom, alleged in Aquarium to have been shown a black and white film in which a GRU colonel was bound to a stretcher and cremated alive in a furnace as a warning to potential traitors and since Penkovsky is the only known executed GRU colonel, this description was attributed by many to his fate.

Similar ideas may be reflected in the fate of the ancient white race of Mars, which is mentioned in A Princess of Mars and reintroduced in a later Martian novel, Llana of Gathol ; they are described as having become weak and degenerate through their dependence on the trappings and comforts of civilization.

Although the film's final image of Laura cast in white indicates that she has ascended to the White Lodge, the meaning behind Cooper's presence alongside her, and indeed, his ultimate fate — if he ever escaped the Black Lodge — is unknown.

The second is the sad tale of Rider's fate, as seen through the unreliable eyes of a callous white deputy sheriff who describes vividly what he cannot understand.

Characters burst into song ( courtesy of composer and lifelong Demy-collaborator Michel Legrand ); iconic Hollywood imagery is lovingly appropriated as in the opening scene with the man in a white Stetson in the Cadillac, daringly set to Beethoven's " Seventh Symphony "); plot is dictated by the director's fascination with fate, and stock themes of chance encounters and long-lost love ; and the setting, as with so many of Demy's films, is the French Atlantic coast of his childhood, specifically the seaport town of Nantes.

Using this knowledge, Wheeljack escaped his fate on Autobot City and converted his body using the Binaltech process into a white ' street tuned ' Ford Mustang GT, a retooled version of Grimlock.

And it is morally reprehensible because denying the responsibility of individuals and societies for their actions is patronizing and in the worst tradition of the ' white man's burden ' approach, which has dismissed regional players as half-witted creatures, too dim to be accountable for their own fate ... Little wonder therefore that Empires of the Sand was more favorably received by Middle Eastern intellectuals, fed up with being talked down to and open to real revisionism of their region's history after suffering decades of condescension from their paternalistic champions in the West.

Namus was the first Armenian silent black and white film ( 1926, ), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade describing the ill fate of two lovers, who were engaged by their families to each other since childhood, but because of violations of namus ( a tradition of honor ), the girl was married by her father.

Monet cannot imagine condemning anyone else to such a fate, and Emplate vanishes into a sea of white hands that tear at his flesh.

The film is based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross, which sank on 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall.

Local legend said that Jerusalem would be ruled by a king who entered the city's gates on a white horse, so to satisfy the emperor's vanity and avoid the fate foretold by legend, a breach was made in the wall rather than allow him to ride through a gate.