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My fore-ordained knowledge that the Yankees would lose paradoxically put them ahead.
Tony Sachs: You're Welcome, New York: How My Reverse Juju Helped The Yankees Win Game 4 Tony Sachs 2011
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As you point out, Chris, nothing was fore-ordained.
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As you point out, Chris, nothing was fore-ordained.
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“It was fore-ordained by heredity that I should write,” Morton explained in a 1904 Theater Advertiser interview, citing her mother as the one who “transmitted to me her taste for play reading.”
Martha Morton. 2009
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“Draw near me and take me in thine hand and lay me in the dish that is with you: then set it on thy head, for my death was fore-ordained, from Eternity without beginning,572 to be at thy hand, and thou hast no power to avert it.”
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With this the captain came down from the mast, saying, There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great; nor can man prevent that which is fore-ordained of fate!
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And it is not decreed that he should fall by thy hand; but hasten on thy mission of slaughter fore-ordained, (exeunt ODYSSEUS and DIOMEDES) while I feigning to be Cypris, his ally, and to aid him in his efforts will answer thy foe with cheating words.
Rhesus 2008
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So they resigned themselves to fore-ordained Fate and fortune and I submitted to the judgment of Allah, enduring patiently that which he decreed unto me of affliction, till He took my soul and made me to dwell in my grave.
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That fore-ordained report took the position that allowing homosexuals -- openly gay men and women -- into the military was just too nervous-making.
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And it is not decreed that he should fall by thy hand; but hasten on thy mission of slaughter fore-ordained, (exeunt ODYSSEUS and DIOMEDES) while I feigning to be Cypris, his ally, and to aid him in his efforts will answer thy foe with cheating words.
Rhesus 2008
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