destined

• “The last I heard, the Bureau was calling profilers Criminal Investigative Agents, or CIAs an acronym destined for confusion.”

  Simon & Schuster: Body of Evidence

• “You even get to take the first few chapters for a test drive absolutely free of charge before deciding if it's a literary great or a title destined for the bargain bin.”

  Shiny Shiny

• “After a few weeks most of the men were crammed into animal carriages on a train destined for Salonika.”

  Doug Nix

• “Analysts will invent a new acronym destined to melt away by 2013.”

  The Huffington Post: Tony Greenberg: The 2011 Cynic Measures His Predictions

• “Do you believe in destined love/love at first sight?”

  Beating back blocks with knowledge! «

• “We care about the small people," BP Board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said after meeting President Obama, birthing a phrase destined to be memorialized on T-shirts.”

  The Washington Post: BP chairman says firm cares about 'the small people' [Updated]

• “Don tries to avoid making a phone call destined to bring him earth-shattering bad news by making his protégé, Peggy, stay behind to help him with a troublesome Samsonite ad.”

  Mad Men Episode Recap: "The Suitcase"

• “Last month, the Gay Krant, a newspaper for the homosexual community in the Netherlands, accused Tariq Ramadan of making homophobic and mysogenistic statements on tapes in Arabic destined for immigrant communities in Europe.”

  Is this a whitewash? Tariq Ramadan exonerated of hate speech....

• “Let's enjoy the improvement COPS will bring while we have it, but unless the Administration offers a viable long-range plan, we should understand COPS is -- again -- destined to garner a few headlines and then quietly slip away.”

  Of COPS and sugar bowls

• “Since this piece was written by a mainlander, he can be forgiven for assuming every single person on what the Post calls The Rock - a word destined to join the other "n" word on the list of banned ethnic slurs - buys into the nationalist mythology on which the latest caudillo thrives.”

  Is the goal a 1948 do-over referendum?

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