Custom also ritualized much of the text of the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract, which treated marriage as a union of families and fortunes and fates.
Many will be watching Dropbox's IPO to see if it stands up longer term and becomes a bellwether for the fortunes and fates of many other outsized "startups" that many have also expecting to list, including those that have already filed to go public like Spotify, as well as those that have yet to make any official pronouncements, like Airbnb.
Basically, when you talk about the fortunes and fate of NTV and Vladimir Gusinsky at the time when a lot of pressure was being put on him, I was the person who provided him with a loan.
His poem, "Pity the Beautiful," stirs up questions of fortune and fate.
"So much revolves around fortune and fate and testing whether the ancestors have blessed you with a good life".
Test your math skills with this question, created by Patrick Honner at Math for America from the article "Brazil, Fortune and Fate Turn on Billionaire".
She may claim her international success is due to good fortune and fate, but it becomes clear that is not the full story.
This is how, with scandalous coolness, he begins "If This Is a Man," calmly deploying the twinned resources of "fortuna" in Italian, which combines the senses of good fortune and fate.
Read the words engraved in gold on the edge of St Catherine's enormous wheel – you have to wrench hard at the handle to make the wheel turn, fortune and fate irresistibly brought to mind – and all the unimaginable strangeness of her life revolves before you, from the conversion of Roman empresses to the multiple tortures and the mystic marriage to Christ.
From the day she first laid eyes on these world-famous lawns 46 years ago as a good-will emissary from a now-departed political machine, an old tennis hand named Anna Dmitrieva has considered Wimbledon to be the center of the world, the intersection of fortune and fate.
These three narrative threads, taking place over a span of nearly two centuries, set the scene for The Son, a novel that is an epic in the truest sense of the word: massive in scope, replete with transformations in fortune and fate, and drenched in the blood of war.
