That plan's bound to fail.

We're all bound to die.

We were destined to meet one day.

Those hopes have vanished.

Of course, this was not to be.

Then our plans went awry.

He will need to keep them calm if he is to succeed.

But that miracle will not materialize in Mainz.

He wasn't destined to see her again.

Maybe we just weren't meant to be together.

But that despairing hope, uttered by a desperate Gazan, will not materialize.

This orthodoxy, however, was also destined to fade away.

Tom and I just weren't meant to be together.

The dead of Marathon were buried on the battlefield.

A democratic, pro Western Middle East is not in the cards.

My plans changed, however, when my father got ill.

Some organizations seem destined to exist in the crosshairs of the Russian authorities.

I don't know how it happened, but it was obviously meant to be.

But, with the demise of communism, neo conservatism s two factions once again seemed fated to clash.

Twenty years on, we know this was not to be.

The United States, the world, indeed our very lives, were about to change fundamentally.

VIENNA Solidarity is essential to democratic societies otherwise, they fall apart.

If China was going to have its own Mikhail Gorbachev, it would have been Zhao.

It was my father who drove the nail into the coffin of my Oxford career.

Nonetheless, the US seems destined to remain the world s most important actor for the foreseeable future.

You must have known that all these animals were going to get slaughtered anyway?

As much as I loved playing basketball, I was destined never quite to reach six feet in height.

Geoff said to me, If I was going to be beat by someone, I'm glad it's Isaac.

If the negotiations should fail, the transatlantic cleavage could once again become glaringly wide.

And in any case, if it is written that we must die, we shall at least die together.

This organization, it appears, is now intended to play the central role in managing the export of missile and nuclear technologies to Iran.

But if these meetings are ever to be really effective, we need a change in format to spice things up.

Otherwise, the region seems destined to become a porous economic and political space buffeted by uncertainty and instability.

C.P. Snow spoke of the two cultures science on the one hand, humanities on the other never the twain shall meet.

Right now, nobody is able to predict whether this wave will turn into the ninth wave or it is destined to fizzle out early.

It is natural that it has fallen upon the European Union to be the motor of the development of Southeast Europe. But the implementation should not be exclusively dictated from Brussels.

The inheritors of the Soviet empire never anticipated that their future was to become the West s junior, poorer, repentant, and admiring partner.

If these new democracies are to survive, their governments will require generous assistance from the international community, including debt relief.

When the little girl was eight years old the mother fell ill, and before many days it was plain to be seen that she must die.

Of course, if the dollar were to fall off its perch as the world s dominant currency any time soon, the euro would be the only serious alternative.

If an international intervention is to have any credible chance of success, clear criteria for what constitutes success are needed from the start.

However, if that's not possible, it's not wrong at all if some other person out there is able to provide the love and affection a child needs.

But it fails to provide a solid (or particularly admirable) foundation upon which to base America's role in the world in the 21 st century.

If he were to win the election, imagine the impact on the world of his first speech from the podium to the United Nations General Assembly.

One problem with the word bubble is that it creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably.