31.   Then I dropped them into the box, and the die was cast.

32.   Then the die was cast.

33.   When the rest of the European Union, and ultimately the United States, decided there was no way back from this German decision, the die was cast.

34.   By that time, Stern said, the die was cast.

35.   Rep. Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, says the die is already cast.

36.   The uprising began after Herberstorff forced peasant leaders to cast the dice for their lives and executed those who lost.