How To Use Preordain In A Sentence
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The question is not whether countries should proceed along some abstract preordained development path.
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For the next two months, though the result appears preordained, the Democratic roadshow will barnstorm the country from coast to coast against Bush, more symphony than cacophony.
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He recently grabbed headlines by accusing the local media of preordaining Landrieu the winner, saying, "There's a move afoot today to ensure that we have a majority white council, an inspector general that's white, a district attorney that's white, a U.S. attorney that's white, a head of education that's white.
Salon
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At daybreak, the boats returned to the shore and the merchants busied themselves with buying and selling and the transport of the goods and gear till nightfall, whilst Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah.
Arabian nights. English
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Some people believe that fate has preordained whether they will be happy or unhappy.
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Most Muslims believe that major events such as life, death, marriage and livelihood, if not all that happens to them, are due to God's will and preordainment, and that they are virtually, if not totally, powerless in influencing the course of such events.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real?
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Tabular and repetitious in structure, an algorithm is essentially a finite blend of mathematical calculations and logical statements that process data according to preordained formats.
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The outcome of Soviet history was not preordained.
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Economic stability is the only ruling ethic and people are born in hatching factories, where they've been preordained from the embryo to be
My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters
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According to palmistry, there are certain preordained events which will mark our journey though life and will not be avoided, only predicted.
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While this was the largest battle of WWII, the outcome was preordained because the Russians dug in line after line of complicated defenses.
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Make the most of the two worlds, the world you have graced with your arrival, and the world hereafter you are preordained to return to.
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As this previous preparation may be in the mind, in the form of a purpose, the word is often used in the sense of preordaining, or appointing.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
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But at least we snatch at the opportunities instead of letting them pass just because they are not preordained in the life plan.
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Imbued with a bureaucratic aversion to nomadism and a Victorian relish for the Hindu caste system, they adjudged many Indian tribesmen, Pardhis included, to be preordained crooks.
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Specifically, did the fact that I played left wing in high school soccer -- and here my explicit egotism requires me to point out that I did not play with two left feet -- preordain my placement on the left wing of the political spectrum?
Michael Sigman: Why We Hate Going to the Dennis
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For a California guy who'd recently graduated from Santa Cruz with a degree in American literature, there wouldn't seem to be anything preordained about this choice, which entailed returning to school to catch up on chemistry and other courses he'd disdained as an undergraduate before enrolling in the oenology department at UC Davis, the West Point of the California wine industry.
Wines That Favor Balance Over Power
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So I think you can certainly, just by going out and gathering empirical data, draw some conclusion that there's an element of preordaining here.
Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart
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So doth the destined minute destroy with a flash the hoarded arrogance of ages; and the destined hand doeth what creation failed to perform; and 'tis by order, destiny, and preordainment, that the works of this world come to pass.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
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What would happen if I decided to choose a different path then what's been preordained?
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Indeed, many men without any history of criminal behavior now live literally under the gun—and I'm not even going to get going on domestic-violence restraining orders, whose legitimate purpose as originally conceived is now routinely abused to preordain custody decisions when no evidence of physical violence has been presented.
Law's Quandary and Justice Scalia
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Nobody tried to preordain in my mind what place the death of animals should have in the consciousness.
The Foie Gras Wars
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Some people believe that fate has preordained whether they will be happy or unhappy.
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Derivation sees among the effects of the innate tendency to change, irrespective of altered surrounding circumstances, a manifestation of creative power in the variety and beauty of the results; and, in the ultimate forthcoming of a being susceptible of appreciating such beauty, evidence of the preordaining of such relation of power to the appreciation.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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Some people believe that fate has been preordained whether they will be happy or not.
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I mean I agree with you, I think that's preordaining something that's not a forgone conclusion and even if Bush does survive the McCain challenge I still think that he will be somewhat weakened by it.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Races Heat Up in Wake of New Hampshire Primary - February 5, 2000
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In due course Agnes forgot her first impulse, yet was moving inexorably on an almost preordained path.
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And sometimes when you preordain conclusions in law, you make it harder to unravel complex problems.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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One can no longer argue that human suffering is certain and preordained without being judged conscienceless, even inhuman.
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Langs (1974 stated emphatically that the failure to share a preordained termination leads to “overintense, paranoid-like, rageful and vengeful fantasies, which are based on the sense of betrayal, “because the therapist has compromised himself and no longer invites trust” (p.
Clinical Work with Adolescents
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But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
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This exhibition reminds us that such a result was hardly preordained.
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Of course, these parallels do not preordain a second Depression.
Depression 2010?
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Mahan did not hold that the ultimate outcome had been preordained - that is, that naval supremacy as such guaranteed victory.
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This stunning defeat causes another "helpful wave of indignation" [1] across the "homeland," preordaining a new US response.
Big "Sacrifice" Gambit
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So was shaved Shagpat, the son of Shimpoor, the son of Shoolpi, the son of Shullum, by Shibli Bagarag, of Shiraz, according to preordainment.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
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But if the story of Poland tells us anything, it is that a nation's success or failure is never preordained.
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He remembered seeing planes flying across the sky to some preordained destination and the feeling of wanting to join them on their voyage.
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The brute force and overwhelming technological superiority of the world's sole superpower preordains the ultimate outcome.
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His life seems to have followed a preordained path/direction.
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In other words, does where we're born preordain where our loyalties will fall?
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies: Questions
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I wrote earlier about how I thought much of Twitter's value came from not preordaining the way it should be used, the way Dodgeball did.
Consider Twitter - Anil Dash
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Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Would you go along with that or is that sort of preordaining something that is not a foregone conclusion?
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Races Heat Up in Wake of New Hampshire Primary - February 5, 2000
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Our mercenaries (Blackwater and Haliburton and their minion) will still be on the ground, interfering with the new government whenever it drifts from the preordained path carved out by the American government since The Carter Doctrine.
CNN Poll: Americans overwhelming support moving US combat troops out of Iraqi cities
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Recently we heard of a club that had a one-word code preordaining the next seven plays.
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Rather than being a preordained victory for a Prussian steamroller, the war was a fascinating and uncertain contest between two rival military systems.
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Ironically, the way in which Aeneas abandons Dido in favour of his preordained fate is characteristic of Carthaginian treachery.
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Hopefully researchers will let the data speak for itself without preordaining an outcome which the data must be made to conform to.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research
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It had been one of Fletcher's last acts to choose her to go to the Mission; he'd even indicated that it had somehow been preordained.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The coming correction was preordained by bad policy choices backed by erroneous economic theories.
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That has been preordained since Britain redrew the map into what we now know as Iraq in the 1800s.
Think Progress » Dan Bartlett Stumped When Asked to Name Anyone ‘Calling for the White Flag of Surrender’
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He is deeply religious, but not a tub-thumper; he believes there is a preordained meaning to life.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, as long as a government official launders his or her preordained illegal activity through the hocus-pocus of a sufficiently loyal legal hack, neither the official nor the legal hack will ever be held to account for their central roles in breaking the law.
Sunday Always Comes Too Late « Gerry Canavan
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The problem is, those two outcomes aren't preordained.
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Let's just say that depending on how you design a study you can practically preordain the outcome.
Just Say No—To Bad Science
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His mouth was dry with apprehension, even though the choice was preordained.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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But who can help but feel differently about an athlete who is genetically preordained for success?
