The fates of peoples and nations reflected other forces, and disruptions were given other forms of explanation.

But someone's fate may also reflect the kind of person involved.

Its fate reflects the clash between the Old South and the New, between segregation and greater racial harmony.

The fate of the Chicago banks reflects the fear in which they were held back home.

Pat Huizing, executive director of New Jersey Preservation, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the fate of Rockingham and other landmarks reflects the state's ambivalence toward its past.

The fate of the Admiral Hotel, which faces a gorgeous cove 25 miles north of Dubrovnik, reflects that of many coastal resorts.

The fate of Thecla's family reflected the ambiguous situation the Georgian nobility found themselves with the arrival of the Russian rule.

It will then be for ministers to decide on the fate of the MAI reflecting the wishes of democratically elected governments.

For all the distance most reporters feel between their own circumstances and Bazoft's, his fate reflected the narrow line between journalism and espionage in Iraq.

Still, many here feel that his fate reflects deeper problems in a system that has shuffled through seven mostly ineffectual prime ministers in the last decade.