Sentence examples for could be fateful from inspiring English sources

The American‐South Vietnamese drive will almost certainly provoke some reaction from Hanoi, and per haps from Peking, with consequences throughout Southeast Asia that cannot be predicted but which could be fateful.

The consequences for both Jerusalem's present stability and its political future could be fateful.

It could be a fateful meeting.

For example, information about the mismatching colour cap could have been fateful if it had been given too early in the process, but by timing this news cleverly at the point of no return, accepting it as a fact was traded off against meeting the deadline.

Yet the ultimate disintegration of Metternich's beloved Austrian empire could be dated to that fateful year.

There were many reasons for Eliot to be wary of matrimony, but most of them could be expressed in the fateful and tragic name of Vivien Haigh-Wood, his recently deceased first wife.

But nothing like Kennan's fateful pillar could be seen.

But if his fateful trip could be said to have started anywhere, it would have been in a mean, weed-clotted track between two sad rows of public housing that was known as The Alley.

"I can only wonder at what a different world it could be today if in those fateful months after 9/11 our nation's leadership had been guided more by a people-to-people vision of building both metaphorical and physical bridges," Mr. Barker said.

It is easy to see how that domain of total and fateful choice could be exploited, and it was.

He landed a job at a Dow Jones subsidiary, IDD, then had a fateful insight: Information's importance could be automatically ranked by its citations or, in the case of the Web, through how many sites linked to it.