The phrase "a likely destiny" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a probable or expected outcome or fate in a particular context.
Example: "Given her talent and dedication, it seems she has a likely destiny in the world of music."
Alternatives: "a probable fate" or "an expected outcome."
As he heads back to academic life and the congenial berth of a Cambridge college mastership, which always seemed his likely destiny, Rowan Williams may be ruminating ruefully – rueful being almost a default mode for him – that it was his fate as archbishop of Canterbury to be head of the worldwide Anglican communion in interesting times.
Yet the students I spoke to identified private pharmacy ownership as a likely and lucrative destiny.
Especially in a game like Destiny.
@@ Each Tree Has its Own Destiny - with a likely grim ending under climate change, as does this 1000s yr old sequoia face in drought ridden California; note the dead trees that surround it in the final half minute, as the camera rises above it.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg envisions an unexpected, humble but most likely temporary destiny for the closed, bankrupt, once-glittering Tavern on the Green restaurant: a snack bar, visitor center and retail store.
Demand for Call of Duty map packs doubled in 2014, and its likely that Destiny's expansion packs – the already released Dark Below, and forthcoming House of Wolves – will provide a financial boost, especially at their £20 price point.
It is scarcely a confrontation likely to affect the destiny of the title any more, and while a positive result could supercharge the remainder of City's campaign and prove a springboard for almost anything to happen next season, there is more at stake than eventual league placings.
Becoming Martians, not Plutonians, is our likeliest planetary destiny.
If you start out life with parts of your moral machinery broken, how likely are you to have a psychotic destiny?
"There was a sign of destiny, a force within us.
