The job presented Mr. Barr with an opportunity to try one of Pennsylvania's most celebrated modern criminal cases, an event that would prove fateful for his personal life.

He also met a number of intellectual political prisoners, including Yuli Daniel, a meeting that would later prove fateful for Marchenko.

The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.

That decision proved fateful, as the flight she would have been on (Sabena Flight 548) crashed near Brussels, Belgium, killing all on board.

This encounter proved fateful, and Wilder's research interests underwent a major change, towards the foundations of mathematics.

A shift in Dutch politics now ensued, which would prove fateful for the Republic.

No uprising, however, proved more fateful than the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

In 1895, Klein hired David Hilbert away from Königsberg; this appointment proved fateful, because Hilbert continued Göttingen's glory until his own retirement in 1932.

The miscalculation proved fateful, however.

In a decision that was later to prove fateful, Henry ordered that the palisade protecting the Portuguese siege camp encircle the camp completely.