Fate, however, conspired against us again just a few days before I was to return home.

Fate had conspired to bring the players in the drama together on the same stage.

The Fates were conspiring to keep me true to myself.

"It does look as though the Fates are conspiring against us."

Fate had conspired to make unnecessary any search for him.

Now the fates, or law of averages, had conspired against him.

Fate has conspired to prevent that from happening, instead leaving me to take on the work for which my wife seemed destined.

Fate intervened again, decades later in his career, and conspired to make him a household name.

For whatever reason, fate and the universe had conspired to keep him moving forward, to bring him to this moment while others were left behind.

Thus do the fates conspire to shape our lives.