Sentence examples for fate held from inspiring English sources

That was the elixir that fate held out in the women's final to Serena Williams, who in defeat demonstrated the dignity required of a champion and paid Angelique Kerber the compliment of giving every drop of that indefatigable competitive spirit.

I genuinely didn't know the answer, and somehow it mattered very much; ninety minutes before, I had never heard of Anvil, yet now the question of the band's fate held me in its grasp, and I could sense the people around me, likewise, holding their breath.

Eritreans know what such a fate holds in store: imprisonment in underground cells and systematic torture while their screams are played to relatives on mobile phones.

But there is no army that we can assemble against them because they are logistically speaking, us; our fate holds shares in their fate even as they ruin our collective fate for short-term gain.

Hitchens is correct, of course, to diagnose such plans as a form of nonthinking — we are not Fates holding our own life-strings, much as we may wish to be.

High-level talks on the rebel leader's fate have been held over the past two days in the Rwandan resort town of Gisenyi.

According to Francesca Kemp, the BBC producer who found the film, the discovery indicates what an 'amazing musician he was and could have become had fate not held something else in store for him'.

Consider the contrast with the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, twenty-five years old, the same age as Bergdahl, whose fate has held Israelis in thrall for more than five years, since he was captured by Palestinian commandos at the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Gaza border in southern Israel.

There amongst the fjord-like canyons I'll board the ship that will take me to the Antarctic peninsula, the finger tip of this vast island continent, in whose hands our fates are held.

But for an airline that liked to tout its image as a plucky disruptor, such a fate would hold a certain ignominy.

In return for that promise, however, the criminal justice system also made an implicit promise – that before they are asked to make what many jurors regard as the most difficult and heart wrenching decision of their lives, they would be fully informed about the person whose fate they hold in their hands.