(a. .) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
(a. .) Significant of fate; ominous.
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.
Foreboding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
(n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With foreboding I edge on to forbidden terrain.
(3) The theme here is hopeful, aspirant – but there's a foreboding sense that everyone involved may not get quite what they wished for.
(4) Paul writes: Dawn this morning in Washington DC, beneath an unusually foreboding sky.
(5) Today's professional nurse has access to current technology and possesses the assessment skills and knowledge that enable early recognition of signs and symptoms foreboding potentially disastrous complications.
(6) Its opening images – aerial shots of Tom's little car amid bare, ploughed fields – are reminiscent of the overhead photography of the Torrance family car early in The Shining , evoking the same sense of exposure, isolation and foreboding.
(7) Alencar wrote, "The preoccupation with health was frequent: either he was having the consequences of a fit or was foreboding one".
(8) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
(9) This means they receive no help from their local authority, or from family, neighbours or friends.” Calling for an urgent injection of cash into both services, it said: “Unless there is significant change to the funding of our health and social care system for older people as a result of decisions taken in the government’s spending review [next month], we look to the future with considerable foreboding.” The Department of Health disputed the charity’s claim that the social care budget had shrunk by £1.85bn over the last decade and would fall by another £470m this year.
(10) The developmental significance of adolescence experienced under conditions of social isolation and rejection with forebodings of the Holocaust was unrecognized in sanctioned silence and shared analytic denial.
(11) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
(12) However, I am filled with great foreboding when I reflect that the said political-constitutional crisis is going to run concurrent with the sharp deterioration in economic conditions as foreshadowed in this not exactly morale-boosting effort from Mr Hammond.
(13) Although the official Franks report published the year after the Argentinian invasion concluded that it "could not have been foreseen", the newly opened documents detail the growing sense of foreboding among key figures.
(14) It’s the kind of spirit that won them the MLS Cup last year, and such continuation is somewhat foreboding for the rest of the league.
(15) But for Gabrielsson it was also heavy with foreboding.
(16) All animals are equal,” said the foreboding sign on the barn at the end of Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell wrote that, mockingly, as an attack on fascism.
(17) The volume went down immediately and the sense of foreboding during that part of the night was not eased by the fact that Montenegro were defending with great togetherness.
(18) The sense of foreboding that surrounded Leicester City after they sent eyebrows everywhere skywards by replacing Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri during a difficult summer has been blasted away by a team whose desire to prove a point has brought them six from their first two matches.
(19) I kind of wish he had been more foreboding, but he's just very friendly."
(20) Despite these forebodings, clubs from across Europe are plotting to wrench Crocodile Rooney from his primitive existence in the English outback and plunge him straight into a concrete jungle, where he will have to fend for himself with nothing but a sharpened stick and a salary of over £250,000 per week.