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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
destine .
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Examples
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CAPE CANAVERAL President Obama's plans for NASA could be "devastating" to the U.S. space program and "destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday.
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The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond.
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He also advises individual investors to abandon over-priced, under-performing mutual funds and "take control of their financial destines, educate themselves, and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds."
Jon Stein: The Investment Cost Of Being Human Jon Stein 2011
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As an unreformed Pan-Africanist, I also believe that Africans are not prisoners to be kept behind tribal walls, ethnic enclaves, Ivorite, kilils, Bantustans, apartheid or whatever divisive and repressive ideology is manufactured by dictators, but free men and women who are captains of their destines in one un-walled Africa that belongs to all equally.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011
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The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond.
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He destines them to translation, he subjects them to the law of a translation both necessary and impossible; in a stroke with his translatable-untranslatadble name he delivers a universal reason (it will not longer be subject to the rule of a particular nation), but he simultaneously limits its very universality: forbidden transparency, impossible univocity.
Jakobson, meet Derrida Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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By trying to escape it we are running from our higher destines both individually and collectively.
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He destines them to translation, he subjects them to the law of a translation both necessary and impossible; in a stroke with his translatable-untranslatadble name he delivers a universal reason (it will not longer be subject to the rule of a particular nation), but he simultaneously limits its very universality: forbidden transparency, impossible univocity.
Archive 2008-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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"For the United States, the leading spacefaring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," the astronauts said in the letter.
Space: The "New West" Frontier D.A. Barber 2010
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By trying to escape it we are running from our higher destines both individually and collectively.
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