Analysts are in no doubt that the choice will be as definitive for the self-styled leader of Europe's anti-austerity movement, as the destiny of Greece itself.
He had also obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad, and would draw on both to legitimise his unprecedented claim to anoint himself caliph of the Islamic world in July 2014, which realised a sense of destiny evident in the prison yard a decade earlier.
LD 45.9%, Con 33.3%, Lab 13.7%, Ukip 2.1% The independence referendum has thrown everything up in the air as far as the destiny of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats are concerned.
Where once we waited eagerly to catch our weekly fix, these days we are masters of our own viewing destiny, choosing when to watch and, increasingly, what viewing platform to watch it on.
"They are in our lives and we are ever more resigned to that destiny".
The president highlighted the significance of Europe in underpinning the Anglo-Irish reconciliation as he quoted Tom Kettle, the Irish nationalist MP and poet who wrote of the Anglo-Irish destiny in Europe before his death on the western front in 1916.
Sure, it had Channing Tatum wiggling around with his top off a lot, but beyond that was a bleak drama about a man struggling to escape his own destiny.
There was a moral vigour in the acceptance of my destiny.
The story Linda Jing tells in the video is slick and persuasive: she was a girl from a poor village forced to study by candlelight because there was no electricity until coal-fired power plants arrived, transforming her destiny and that of China.
She should know that I don't deal in plots, but only on destiny.
Those times were the heyday of Jim Crow, eugenics and manifest destiny.
