Sentence examples for fulfilled itself from inspiring English sources

But the official's premise — that the Afghans are more tolerant of corruption than people in the West — has fulfilled itself.

With Apollo now a distant memory and Mir a distinct liability, the engineer might feel that the grand adventure has not quite fulfilled itself.

He came to public notice intermittently, and always surrounded by question marks, whenever he decided to auction off a collection that had, as he once put it, "fulfilled itself".

Their prophecy promptly fulfilled itself: the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate oil rose to within two cents of the all-time record of $55.67 set last October, though it subsequently fell back a bit as speculative buyers decided to quit while they were ahead.

Inasmuch as an oracle had once come to the Romans that Greeks and Gauls should occupy the city, two Gauls and likewise two Greeks, male and female, were buried alive in the Forum, in order that in this way destiny might seem to have fulfilled itself, and these foreigners, thus buried there, might be regarded as possessing a part of the city.

It was like something fulfilling itself.

Fear follows a more certain road to fulfilling itself.

He said that we were confronted with the beautiful paradox of a prophecy fulfilling itself by means of its negation.

He also claims that in orthogonal time the future falls back into and fulfills itself in the present.

That destiny fulfills itself amid the squalor of perpetually uncleaned motel rooms and the sterility of interrogation chambers and prison cells.

Because he is a searching psychologist and a canny narrator, the consequences of the encounter become a striking instance of fate fulfilling itself.