What is "eventual"

Usage examples of "eventual".

Yet even worse was the knowledge that that pain would accompany his entire final journey down into eventual unconsciousness, and with itan added traumawere the images burned into him: almost forty hours of being driven on foot up Aren Way, watching each and every one of those ten thousand soldiers joined to the mass crucifixion in a chain of suffering stretching over three leagues, each link scores of men and women nailed to every tree, to every available space on those tall, broad trunks.

And while such a devolution of the global civilization, were it possible, might conceivably address the problem of self-inflicted technological catastrophe, it would also leave us defenseless against eventual asteroidal and cometary impacts.

Triumph after triumph, the highest awards and degrees, elevation to important office, advisor to emperors and savior of peasants, and eventual deification to become Celestial Patron of scrofulous, illiterate, lice-ridden lads digging ditches behind schoolhouses.

He had been here at midnight on Hogmanay, ready to root out the eventual troublemakers, to break up fights and crunch across the shattered glass covering the cobblestones.

Few in Mexico who entertain the zany irredentist vision of Nuevo California think such a process out carefully, and do not quite know what the eventual condition of the border zone between us will be - a greater Mexico, a simple assimilation of millions of brown gringos, or a new intermediary state of Mexifornia, with affinities to both countries and full allegiance to neither.

My eventual target is still a creature of the Wasteland, but I may have to kill several shiploads of the kinsmen of the one called Kajak before I can get a clear bow-shot at the servant of the Vlagh.

She wrote that Levet had lain on his back for some hours, but, judging from the raucous singing that accompanied his eventual descent of the cellar steps, had returned none the worse for wear.

It would have been strange had it done so, for his life on Ganymede had been oriented in its every phase towards eventual general managership of that very concern.

In olden days all of Italy had aspired to eventual owning of Latin Rights and then the full citizenship, for Rome under the doughty and brilliant leadership of men like Appius Claudius Caecus had been conscious of the necessity of change, the prudence in seeing all Italy eventually become properly Roman.

Still, I believe that King Tedric would prefer to ally himself with us with eventual reunification in mind.

After about a century of bloodshed and the eventual suppression of the last libertarian fanatics, the Septagon orbitals had gravitated toward the free-est form of civilization that was possible in such a hostile environment: which meant intensive schooling, conscript service in the environmental maintenance crews, and zero tolerance for anyone who thought that hanging separately was better than hanging together.

Starjjans have been equipped with strong enough weapons to ensure that although their eventual defeat is inevitable, it will be protracted enough to give our visiting signatory and his boys the impression that a first-class civil war is raging here.

Borja privately speculated that the record had almost certainly been altered or effaced after the event to insure that the eventual loser appeared as the antipope to the eyes of history.

Ronny Bronston kept in mind the eventual assignment at which he was to prove himself.

The eventual result is general paralysis, necrosis of the limb extremities, and termination.