0 having an important and usually negative effect on the future: --
1 having a very important and often negative effect on the future: --
One fateful morning, two workers got into the bucket and were lowered halfway down a quarry face.
Moreover, this fateful human tragedy is made all the worse by the fact that there is no known cure for the disease at this time.
Every newspaper carried the story on its front page and the impact of that fateful day will never be forgotten by any of us.
He has speedily put in place a thorough investigation of what went so terribly wrong that fateful morning two weeks ago.
Vincent proceeds to call the fateful race.
Sometimes it merely postponed the fateful denouement.
This was a fateful mistake.
One fateful decision was made in the light of this perspective, and also in fulfillment of a project of sovereignty assertion by military expansion.