"Columbus has such an ineluctable presence in history," he writes, "that a hemisphere named after him would never be free of association with him.
Over the next four years, as I waited for the law of gravity to gain its ineluctable traction in the stock market, I began to notice that a few other people were using the same language.
Its cardinal principles were stark: scheduled linear television over; on demand will replace it in a couple of years; all television will be delivered via the internet; and the capacity to interact with it will trigger an ineluctable change in the character of television programmes themselves.
Merleau-Ponty evokes our ineluctable inherence in Being as evidence that Husserl's project of free variation, while being useful, was not able to accomplish what Husserl desired of it.
Telling the truth generates confidence, which is an ineluctable element in human relations, and has strengthened medical professionals since the beginning of medicine.
Although year on year changes varied, an ineluctable reduction in mental illness beds occurred between 1988 and 2008, amounting to more than 60% of all bed provision.
Finally, the ability of the paradigm to conduct organizational updating during run time (in case of an agent being destroyed or differentiating into a phenotype of profoundly different nature, for example) [ 38] makes an ineluctable case in favour of the agent-based philosophy as the most suitable for dealing with organizational relationships appropriate for complex systems.
If Rupert Murdoch didn't know his power was in ineluctable decline, he had only to watch Harriet Harman on TV last week.
Now film, too, is losing its narrative hegemony, and so the novel – the cultural Greece to its world-girdling Rome – is also in ineluctable decline.
However, to locate the new epicentre of the ineluctable commoditising cycle in China is still to impose a narrative arc on human history, one of the sort only religion can ever satisfactorily supply, since it views all us fretting and strutting players not from the Royal Circle but sub specie aeternitatis.
