What's the difference between destiny and prospect?

Destiny


Definition:

  • (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
  • (n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
  • (2) Destiny is an experience we’ve wanted to explore for many years, but maybe didn’t have the bandwidth, the technology, the expertise, the critical mass to get it done.” Art and inspiration While engineers were working on the logistics of constructing one seamless online galaxy for players to explore and meet in, the 14-person concept art team was beginning to sketch out the look of the world.
  • (3) "These are just the women I know, I estimate that at least 40 to 50 other women are waiting for the same destiny in Iran right now," she said.
  • (4) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
  • (5) Destiny wants to change the way we think about online gaming – whether it succeeds or not will be down to the capability of its server network and whether there is really enough in there to keep gamers coming back.
  • (6) "They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right."
  • (7) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
  • (8) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
  • (9) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
  • (10) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
  • (11) We were forming a new legal entity, rebranding ourselves with a far improved voting structure where we could be master of our own destiny.
  • (12) But it is much more than a business; it is an institution; it reflects and it influences the life of a whole community; it may affect even wider destinies.
  • (13) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
  • (14) Also the frequent epidemiological observation on the presence of both such agents and the HIV in AIDS patients allowed the authors to speculate on the probable important role of a cohort of co-factors which determine the destiny of such individuals.
  • (15) As we show the UK is once again open to the world and united in our new destiny, so we will expand our horizons,” she said.
  • (16) I'm getting ready for that, preparing in case it is my destiny," she said in an interview at her office in Brasilia.
  • (17) The parties of the elite have to locate "aspiration" as an individual trait with success as its manifest destiny.
  • (18) The ecological destiny of resistant bacterial populations suggests the role of other factors than antibiotic resistance: characters of a particular host, host-plasmid relationship and properties which may lead to survival and adaptation in a given niche.
  • (19) ActionAid says that if multinationals, many of which are respectable in other ways, such as ABF, paid the full tax on their economic activity in developing countries, then countries such as Zambia could truly be in control of their own destinies.
  • (20) As national Tea Party founding member Debbie Dooley puts it : “This is about the freedom to choose and create your own electricity.” Polls show that even people who doubt the climate is changing instinctively understand the pleasure of controlling their own energy destiny.

Prospect


Definition:

  • (v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
  • (v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
  • (v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
  • (v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
  • (v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
  • (v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
  • (v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
  • (v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • (3) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (4) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (5) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (6) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
  • (7) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
  • (8) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (9) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
  • (10) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
  • (11) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
  • (12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
  • (13) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
  • (14) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
  • (15) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
  • (16) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
  • (17) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
  • (18) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
  • (19) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
  • (20) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.

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