Sentence examples for fateful clock from inspiring English sources

Sanctions against Iran's oil exports that the president signed into law on New Year's Eve started a fateful clock ticking.

His one narrative innovation is the introduction of the Four Seasons (Vasily Tkachenko, Anton Pimonov, Maxim Zyuzin, Ivan Sitnikov) who preside silently on the stairs in Act I, dance during the transformation scene and appear at the fateful clock-striking moment.

"Since the clock struck that fateful hour, love has covered this resilient city," he said.

In handsomeness, with confidence, they walk Towards exams, and don't know how it feels To hear the fateful tick-tock of the clock.

The clock strikes 11 11, the fateful wishing hour.

Fate has a fateful way of slipping into symphonies.

And they deliver fresh perspectives on other vexing incidents: the tragic 1955 Le Mans race, at which some 80 spectators died, and Rodney King's fateful freeway ride in an anemic Hyundai Excel supposedly clocked at 115 miles per hour.

Dixon wishes she could "turn the clock back" and re-run the couple of fateful minutes that had such calamitous consequences.

In Fred Zinnemann's film, the fateful hour is preceded by a gallery of anxious faces intercut with a pendulum clock.

The laws state that a side should complete a move if a penalty is awarded but Hook's and his forwards' delay in shuffling over to the lineout meant that the clock had ticked towards the 80-minute mark as he launched his fateful kick to touch.

On the old church in Kalavryta, the clock is stopped at 34 minutes past two, the time when the building was set alight on that fateful day.