The term's inescapable ambiguity, however, has led many modern theologians to avoid it.
Earlier in September, in a speech in New York, Mr Clinton described the contagious problems that began with the collapse of the Thai baht last year as "the biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century," adding that "the United States has an absolutely inescapable obligation to lead".
But what some In Colombia called a spark, an inescapable pull of their ancestors, led them in a different direction, to Judaism.
Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University who studies Congress, said that the numbers led to an inescapable conclusion: "There's very little legislating going on the House floor".
"One is led to the inescapable but unsatisfying conclusion," Mr. Ahamed writes, in anything but unsatisfying fashion, "that the bull market of 1929 was so violent and intense and driven by passions so strong that the Fed could do nothing about it".
Ultimately our dance of ick created a false dynamic where my fear, anxiety and negative expectations led to an inescapable self-fulfilling prophecy, and we decided to end our relationship.
After all, does not one inescapable conclusion lead to the next?
Our review led us to the inescapable conclusion that the Norfolk Four are completely innocent of the 1997 rape and murder of Michelle Michellesko.
Three incidents in particular have led me to the inescapable conclusion that Mr. Trump lacks the temperament, self-discipline and judgment required to be president.
The inescapable conclusion is that both these teams are led by big-game players who, consciously or otherwise, have performed best in the games that matter most to their paymasters and themselves.
