A tragic inevitability led Blair into his most questionable foreign-policy decision: backing President Bush over Iraq.
For example, Mr. Bush seems all but certain to have to choose between scaling back some of his defense and education priorities and acknowledging the virtual inevitability of tapping into the Social Security surplus.
Some experts suggested Wednesday that the government's intervention may be the first step in attempts to win public acceptance for what they say is an increasing inevitability: the dumping into the ocean of some of the less contaminated of the huge amount of water being stored in hulking tanks that are overwhelming the plant.
I think we are there to change inevitability -- certainly into love of freedom.
Schools have begun incorporating the inevitability of trauma into their design, with curriculum addressing stress reduction and settling differences without resorting to violence.
And finally, how this made the rupture between the men, which was always on the cards, into an inevitability.
Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
Yesterday, Mr. Bush's team seemed bent on promoting an air of inevitability about his moving into the White House, announcing that Gen. Colin L. Powell would aid a rapidly growing Republican transition team, which now has its own offices and logo.
The tragedy prompted an outpouring of grief and outrage — a candlelight vigil, statements of sympathy and anger from elected officials, heart-rending posts from relatives of the deceased — as well as, for some, a quiet resignation that the previously unthinkable had morphed into an inevitability.
But his own relentless salesmanship around the country and an economic slowdown, which he used to justify an economic stimulus, turned the idea into an inevitability, a piece of political jujitsu that his own aides fear will be hard to repeat on many other issues.
