Sentence examples for spared the fate from inspiring English sources

He was spared the fate of others in Belgium whose records were no different from his — the authorities proved, as Peeters puts it, "overridingly indulgent".

My comrades and I were spared the fate of so many others by an incandescent event of history: the atom bomb.

They were spared the fate of Bill Clinton and other incoming presidents who for months found that their deliberations were subjected to speculative, and often damaging, coverage.

Flanner was also privy to Toklas's remarkable idea that she would be reunited in Heaven with Stein, who, as a genius, had been spared the fate of her fellow plain-dead Jews and was waiting for her there.

Goldman Sachs was spared the fate of those companies largely because its managers listened to its naysayers.Much of the history that Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera recount has already appeared in news accounts, books, government investigations and court proceedings.

May Glück be spared the fate that has befallen Frost, whose truisms ("Good fences make good neighbors") are often skimmed off the top of the poems, which exist precisely to unsteady them.

The Democrat MP, who was part of the party's legal defence team, was given a slap on the wrist.Mr Abhisit has been spared the inglorious fate of his two predecessors, who were both removed by the courts.

So at least our beloved Scrabs has been spared the hideous fate of Monopoly, with its Celtic and Rangers editions, its cheap, sponsored-by-local-pizza-delivery-firm versions, its garishly updated figurines.

She has also fashioned an absorbing and moving story about the servants at Longbourn: Sarah, the housemaid; Mr. and Mrs. Hill, who take charge of the stables and household; James, the new young footman; and little Polly, an orphan lucky enough to be spared the bleak fate that otherwise often awaited such girls (the streets, the poorhouse, a life of virtual slavery).

America has been spared the same fate in part, S&P says, because of the "unique external flexibility" granted by the dollar's reserve currency status.Recently China and other countries have questioned that status, advocating greater use of other currencies or a currency basket like the IMF's Special Drawing Right (SDR).

Why should the potentially most powerful being ever created be spared the same fate?