What's the difference between fate and karma?

Fate


Definition:

  • (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
  • (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
  • (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
  • (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (2) The fate of the inhibited fungus is the subject of this report.
  • (3) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
  • (4) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
  • (5) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
  • (6) In this article we present a synthesis of recent information concerning the fate of lactate in skeletal muscle.
  • (7) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (8) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
  • (9) The fate of the same viruses was investigated also in non-stimulated separated lymphocytes for comparative purposes.
  • (10) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
  • (11) This finding is in apparent contrast to the fate of the endogenous Fc receptors expressed on mouse macrophages.
  • (12) It is also clear that apoptosis, which represents an alternative tissue injury-limiting fate to necrosis in situ, may be important in limiting tissue injury and determining whether inflammation persists or resolves.
  • (13) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
  • (14) The chapters deal with general preliminaries and indications for surgery, the selection of bypass material, surgical instruments for coronary opertaions, the methods of extracorporeal circulation, the distal coronary anastomosis, the proximal aortal anastomosis, intraoperative monitoring of results, intra- and postoperative myocardinal infarction, the fate of venous bypass grafts, operative treatment of the ruptured ventricular septum and papillary muscle, and ventricular aneurysmectomy.
  • (15) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
  • (16) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
  • (17) When the EGF receptor on cultured 3T3 cells is affinity labeled with high specific activity 125I-EGF, and the fate of the affinity labeled EGF-receptor complex determined, the loss in binding activity was accounted for by receptor internalization and subsequent proteolytic processing of the EGF receptor molecules in the lysosomes.
  • (18) The fate of cholesteryl esters in high density lipoprotein (HDL) was studied to determine whether the transfer of esterified cholesterol from HDL to other plasma lipoproteins occurred to a significant extent in man.
  • (19) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
  • (20) Su(H) is also involved in controlling the fates of sensillum accessory cells and is specifically expressed in two of these cells.

Karma


Definition:

  • (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now — and that’s karma,” said the Croz.
  • (2) A few monks came down, and gave a class on karma and why bad things happen to good people, and I found answers I had been looking for.
  • (3) [Belief in] karma makes people submissive; that’s how the country is run.” For Weerasethakul, this issue is no longer simply aesthetic: after the 2014 military coup , it’s one of political urgency.
  • (4) He's a firm believer in karma, and says that after plenty of rough times he's never been happier.
  • (5) It was only quite late in the day that I realised that somebody on my own team had been killed.” That someone was a 34-year-old Sherpa called Pasang Karma Sherpa.
  • (6) Hugh Lanning ( Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Maxine Peake, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Ken Loach, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Laverty, Ahdaf Soueif, Dr Karma Nabulsi
  • (7) If you are a “dead beat” dad then karma is a cruel mistress.
  • (8) In this case one can expect a greater emphasis on meditation, breathing and cleansing techniques, along with devotional practices such as mantra chanting, tuition in philosophy, and karma yoga (community service).
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kandi Sherpa, widow of Pasang Karma Sherpa, who was killed in the 2014 avalanche on Everest, beneath portraits of her husband in her home in Nepal.
  • (10) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
  • (11) I wonder, however, how karma will play to a million children, orphaned by Aids?
  • (12) This year they renamed it the Pasang Karma trek and pledged to donate the profits to his widow, Kandi Sherpa and her three children.
  • (13) Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims, said its helpline dealt with more than 6,700 calls about forced marriage and honour-based violence last year, with its busiest months during the school holidays.
  • (14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
  • (15) It would be just awful karma to throw a party and have somebody die there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grace Jones at New York’s Studio 54 nightclub in 1978.
  • (16) I really believe that will happen, I believe in karma and I believe in hard work and I don't believe in like, I don't know."
  • (17) The book's title isn't supposed to suggest feminism ever went away – groups as disparate as Justice for Women, The Fawcett Society, Southall Black Sisters and Karma Nirvana have been working for women's rights for decades now.
  • (18) These are: action (karma), direct perception, emptiness, and dependent arising.
  • (19) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
  • (20) If the prime minister lasts another two years, it will only be because both men are happy for her to absorb the toxic karma of Brexit negotiations before they make their move.

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