This outcome was preordained from the start of the surge. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Non-Surprise of the Day] Reference
Economic stability is the only ruling ethic and people are born in hatching factories, where they've been preordained from the embryo to be. From Wordnik.com. [My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters] Reference
By knowing what the future holds, and how "fixed" it is -- that it is somehow "preordained" -- does that just enervate, or stimulate?. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Oh, I think that it was kind of preordained from the start. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006] Reference
He calls it "a fiasco of more of the same" with a "preordained" agenda. From Wordnik.com. [One last chance: can we save the tiger?] Reference
While a sale isn't "preordained," he said, carving out the business "could well drive the recovery that we've been talking about.". From Wordnik.com. [Motorola to Spin Off] Reference
It now becomes clear that they're going to have to return to the island in order to get events back in some kind of preordained order. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
"preordained," Bank of Canada bank governor Mark Carney says. From Wordnik.com. [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference
Certainly the Karzai selection was not preordained. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2004] Reference
This is a partisan commission in terms of a preordained outcome. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 2, 2001] Reference
The Scot in him preordained that he might be a necessity higher up. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The case, plausible though hardly preordained, deserves examination. From Wordnik.com. [A New Start For Europe?] Reference
Is everything that happens preordained, predefined, and predictable?. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend songs about fate and destiny: the results] Reference
God's will and decree, by which everything is determined and preordained?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
For safety reasons, these particles could also have preordained lifetimes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Fix a Climate Emergency] Reference
And the now conscious stars have preordained this moment for my happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
As I say, it was a fairly brief session, preordained what the result would be. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 10, 2002] Reference
They recognized in him their preordained master, were wax to his hands, mats to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Blair's landslide suggests that the result was preordained long before the campaign began. From Wordnik.com. [How Tony Blair Won] Reference
To hear some pundits tell it, the outcome of the midterms is preordained disaster for Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Creamer: Nine Keys to Democratic Success in the Midterms] Reference
"And it perhaps begs the question of whether they have preordained results of the investigation.". From Wordnik.com. [Corporate Changes] Reference
Nevertheless, the morning Brigham rode into Salt Lake City, the capitulation had been preordained. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
Discarding an investigation that has not fit a preordained conclusion is not an error in judgment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2007] Reference
That didn't preclude a crowded field or a competitive race, but the outcome seemed, in the end, preordained. From Wordnik.com. [2012 GOP race looks open and unpredictable (from Iowa)] Reference
Week after week he had to perform canned laboratory experiments - projects with preordained right and wrong answers. From Wordnik.com. [Why My Kids Hate Science] Reference
In some weird way, the success of these products was preordained -- by the multimillion-dollar mumbo-jumbo marketing. From Wordnik.com. ['Earth, You Have A Problem': Kaboooom!] Reference
The decision had been preordained a month earlier, when the university announced it would end race-based affirmative action. From Wordnik.com. [LOYAL LEGACIES] Reference
Globalization is not preordained to advance inexorably, driven by constant improvements in communications and transportation. From Wordnik.com. [THE WORLD IS STILL ROUND] Reference
The science makes clear that children need adults in their lives who recognize that abilities are not preordained by genetics. From Wordnik.com. [Ed policies ignore science on how/when kids learn] Reference
In fact, experimentation can be critical to real accomplishment, while following lockstep in a preordained path is often deadening. From Wordnik.com. [The Fine Art of Letting Go] Reference
This was not an opportunity waited for for weeks and then hurriedly snatched, but on the preordained date the flight was commenced. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
The Taliban speaks of a "puppet government" and warns that the outcome of the election will have been preordained by the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Kidnappings heighten fears ahead of Afghan vote] Reference
Indeed the whole thing appeared completely preordained; otherwise how could you explain why performances didn't vary from dance to dance?. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Fix Was In] Reference
Indeed, his main rival, "Iron Lady" Anson Chan last week announced that she would not challenge him because "the results are preordained.". From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong: Roll Over, Adam Smith] Reference
The Madonna sensation was preordained, but the media frenzy that's surrounded the lanky 33-year-old American couldn't have been predicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Of The Moment] Reference
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