Sentence examples for seemed mapped out from inspiring English sources

At the end of Trainspotting, the characters' lives seemed mapped out until death – apart from Mark Renton, who gave fate and his friends the lastminute slip by stealing the proceeds of a drug deal and escaping to Amsterdam.

With selection for England at under-18 and under-20 level also coming his way a top end football career seemed mapped out, then Nigel Worthington lost his job as Norwich manager and Henderson quickly found out that nothing in the professional game can be taken for granted.

It goes with the territory and it's a responsibility that needs to be taken very seriously". The news is a devastating blow for Christine Ohuruogu, whose destiny seemed mapped out from the moment last year that London was awarded the Olympics.

When I left university, everything seemed mapped out.

Into her mid-20s, King's career had seemed mapped out.

Finding Fela! seems mapped out in a theatre on Broadway, stuffed with contemporaries and acolytes (Tony Allen, Paul McCartney, Questlove) willing to laud the man's talent, pay tribute to his politics and, unfortunately, incite us to see Fela!

The way to do it seems, then, all mapped out: to observe, experiment, and analyse, take a step back and design a model, try it out in a real-life situation, and, in the most favourable case, identify general rules.

James Purnell: High-flier who fell to earth is  on the up again James Purnell, who has never been accused of lacking ambition or self-confidence, once seemed to have his future mapped out – all the way to the top of politics.

The results, mapped out above, seem significant beyond just tourism.

Everything seems to have been planned and mapped out before the artist put brush to canvas or board.

In February he seemed robust, optimistically mapping out his political career as a Biya loyalist.