Sentence examples for of a predestined from inspiring English sources

There is in the big Chassy landscapes something of the four "Seasons" (in the Louvre) in which Poussin commemorated the rightness of nature and the presence in all natural things of a predestined order.

THE couple's only son, he had never shown his father's raw political ambition or his sense of a predestined place in this country's history.

Meanwhile, Rainilaiarivony's older brother Rainivoninahitriniony enjoyed the double privilege of his status as elder son and freedom from a predestined evil fate.

The honours of the first Test match between England and Australia, which ended here this evening in a predestined draw, went mainly to Australia.

And Thailand's relatively poor performance is not the result of a somehow predestined middle-income trap.

Richard Wershe Sr spearheads a string of schemes predestined to fail.

Whoever knows this will need nothing else". The same might be said of "Generosity," especially after Powers introduces Thomas Kurton, an entrepreneurial geneticist who sees in Thassa the manifestation of one of his greatest fantasies: the eradication of unhappiness, the fulfillment of humanity as a species predestined for ecstasy.

This means that science does not proceed by an orderly dovetailing together of concepts predestined to fit each other exactly.

It is a tension which puts him firmly in the category of predestined yet unreliable narrators exemplified by James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Theologically, this was facilitated by a strong predestinarianism that enabled him to believe in the "invisible" church of the elect, constituted of those predestined to be saved, rather than in the "visible" church of Rome that is, in the organized, institutional church of his day.

Since the city of God consists of those predestined to salvation, we cannot be sure of its membership.