For a while, McIlroy seemed destined to dominate.
While apparently destined for mediocre careers, people who form important one-to-one apprenticeship relationships often are able to accelerate and intensify their development.
While not destined for North America, the Nano signals to today's major automakers how much downward pressure on prices they can expect from emerging rivals.
While not destined to enter the literary firmament, Mr. Lang's autobiography reveals the story of a supremely gifted boy who was pushed mercilessly by a bullying father into a regimen of relentless discipline and practicing.
While Hitler destined the Jews in his empire to physical extermination, he regarded the Slavs, principally the Poles and the Russians, as "subhumans" who were to be subjected to continual decimation and used as a pool of cheap labour, that is to say, reduced to slavery.
For a while, he had seemed destined to place first in life's sack race, or, at least, he talked that way.
That strategy was credible while Airbus looked destined always to live in the shadow of arch-rival Boeing, and while US defence spending was being ramped up as the country fought two wars.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis can identify embryos with double dominant mutations, so they can be discarded before implantation, while preserving embryos destined for either dwarfism or average height.
I would also imagine the boys in the rich neighborhoods that surrounded the station, watching cartoons and on a course to a good life, while I was destined to put together the papers.
Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton are the king and queen of British track cycling, while Laura Trott seems destined to be one of the faces of these Games.
