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"preordained" Definitions
  1. already decided or planned by God or by fate

263 Sentences With "preordained"

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Mr Koepka's victory appeared preordained for most of the event.
The blue wave of 2018 wasn't preordained — people built it.
Rule out items for discussion to ensure a preordained conclusion.
Mr. Lugar built a résumé that seemed preordained for politics.
This was an expansion that was not preordained by doctrine.
Officer Mulkeen's pivot toward law enforcement seemed to be preordained.
Did it feel preordained with Barack Obama in November 2007?
I don't believe people are preordained to go this route.
Beyoncé's contribution to Coldplay's halftime show came preordained as an upstaging.
Lee's downfall, and her eventual redemption, feel a little too preordained.
Such voting, which critics called fraudulent, always had a preordained conclusion.
The HomePod was never preordained to be a blockbuster for Apple.
Like all pro wrestling events, WrestleMania features matches with preordained outcomes.
In either case, whites are preordained to walk that special path.
In that respect, the attack on Thursday night was almost preordained.
And winners and losers are preordained at a very early age.
But a closer look at each step shows that nothing was preordained.
Which means it's hard to imagine Schumer's support for Ellison was preordained.
It turns out that all this drama was preordained months in advance.
He held that history is not preordained, as Hegel and Marx believed.
Add Russia to the mix, and the risk and chaos seemed preordained.
Perhaps it was preordained that David Frankel would become a mortgage banker.
In some ways, the alliance between the Agalarovs and Trump seems preordained.
In part, say Iowa Democrats, that's because the outcome feels almost preordained.
Protagonist Sam Bridges is living in a world where extinction is preordained.
Screenshot via Revolt There are moments in history that, in hindsight, seem preordained.
The transitional pitch It was preordained that Pelosi would have a speaker fight.
That future, however, is not preordained, for Americans overwhelmingly want stronger privacy protections.
Increasingly, the Champions League feels somehow preordained, ever more homogeneous, ever more predictable.
Memes may not be preordained, but this one is more predictable than most.
Julia considers their friendship preordained, if only because both have pale blue eyes.
Which, you've got to admit, is a pretty handy metaphor for this preordained lifelessness.
The reality is that this move has been preordained for some time now. Why?
Of course, America has no preordained right to its position as an economic superpower.
We must remember that NATO allies' acceptance of American global leadership is not preordained.
Their respective flows combine perfectly, as though their relationship was preordained by the stars.
McConnell has said it is preordained that Trump will be acquitted in the Senate.
But Democratic elites did try to make Clinton's nomination as inevitable, as preordained, as possible.
The rest of the elections are essentially preordained, the results inevitable, the "people" largely irrelevant.
And there are, unexpectedly, even surprises in store on a journey whose endpoint seems preordained.
Your Money PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps it was preordained that David Frankel would become a mortgage banker.
In retrospect, history often seems preordained; vulnerabilities seem garishly announced, outcomes a matter of course.
The landslide victory was a widely anticipated outcome of a contest whose outcome was preordained.
But we do not have a monopoly on scientific talent, and leadership is not preordained.
The result is preordained: Vladimir Putin will win, entitling him to another six years in power.
Some liberal justices wondered what would happen to voters if partisan gerrymandering made election results preordained.
As gratifying as it was seeing women taking power, can we assume that it was preordained?
And there's no preordained decree that this can't be the year for one of those upsets.
They are now simply processions, their result almost preordained, entire seasons stripped of drama and intrigue.
"In this freedom, there are no preordained questions, no easy answers, no ready definitions," she writes.
"I think that I must have been preordained to have been in the business," he said.
But however self-confident Mao's early dreams of glory, his supreme leadership was far from preordained.
"The memo appears to have been hastily assembled to justify a preordained outcome," she said Thursday.
While the nomination for Sessions was contentious, the result was preordained: another loss for the minority.
Congress is barreling toward a House impeachment vote and Senate trial where the results seem preordained.
Like the rest of the day, its outcome is preordained — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
It is tempting to see this as another milestone on the way to the yuan's preordained supremacy.
"It's been limited and closed, and frankly I think we're moving toward a preordained result," said Rep.
The most absurd reporting is that there's a grand White House chessboard with all the moves preordained.
"No one believes that nominees from a preordained list will simply follow existing law," Mr. Schumer said.
The radio commentators and the news columnists made it sound as if Roosevelt's defeat had been preordained.
In most districts, it doesn't matter who the nominee is because the general election outcome is preordained.
It's not even the finale, and Colton's season of The Bachelor has fully derailed from the preordained tracks.
Menendez said on CNN that Trump's failure to reach a deal was preordained by his lack of preparation.
But the size of the American workforce 19763 years from now is essentially preordained by today's population distribution.
Given her family connections to the sport, she knows it was almost preordained that she would play basketball.
With five justices who are solidly in favor of gun owners' rights, the outcome would seem nearly preordained.
In France, there is no preordained right to bear arms, absent rigid registration and surveillance of their use.
"If you have a preordained outcome that is negative to your actions, why walk into it?" he said.
In their hatred for the president, Trump's opponents have sought to fit the facts to a preordained conclusion.
When testifying, police will deny they start an investigation with a preordained conclusion and then curate the evidence accordingly.
A life in organized crime seemed preordained, but Louis's interest faded after several relatives were killed by rival gangsters.
Sometimes, when you are in the act of writing, you feel part of a preordained plan, someone else's design.
The rise of T. rex is a lesson in how evolution works, Dr. Brusatte said: with no preordained plan.
Minus the texture of a fleshed-out world, her go-to moves feel repetitive, once again preordained and cruel.
Now the outcome of this trial, the one that was supposed to have a preordained outcome, looks less certain.
So in many ways, the sun-streaked conflict and misty boredom of "Siesta Key" is preordained, and also comforting.
This means the identities of those emerging-market economies that will thrive and those that will falter are not preordained.
Surrounded by the artist's derivative juvenilia, it also feels like engine pitching the work toward a decisive, almost preordained outcome.
Finally, there were questions of accuracy, with multiple accusations that one side cherry-picked data to support a preordained conclusion.
This pre-emption thwarted the commission's independence, ruled out discussion of viable options and preordained the conclusion from the start.
This staging is effective because it is clinical, its motions carefully choreographed, as if not only dreamed but also preordained.
Yes, events followed a preordained sequence on the stage: Napoleon's army advanced; the Russians retreated; flames surged across the skyline.
"It is time that Black Hebrew men determine their destiny" -- a preordained lot that has nothing to do with America.
But we're not living in a work of fiction; the future isn't authored by anyone, and it's absolutely not preordained.
Every song is made up of stuttering waves of pure noise, clashing and interlocking in preordained patterns hand-coded by Perich.
A prelude to the rest of the exhibition, the gallery defines utopia as an abstraction ab initio, its fall effectively preordained.
I don't think they're-- it's been simply amazing to me as a parent to note know much is sort of preordained.
The question becomes whether that means his fate is preordained by virtue of his blood, his faith, or his skin color.
The thought of the trial continuing, with no end in sight and the result preordained, incites despair in many of them.
Sometimes — often — the stories we tell are not neat, and rounded, and the journeys they describe are not direct and preordained.
Sometimes — often — the stories we tell are not neat, and rounded, and the journeys they describe are not direct and preordained.
Unlike in Europe — where, in many regions, decisions about which grapes to plant were culturally preordained — Californians faced no such restrictions.
I've read similar thoughts from other critics, because Ramsay's awfulness was just so severe that Jon's victory seemed all but preordained.
An open seat for mayor, with no incumbent or preordained winner, is rarer than 80 degrees and sunny here in February.
The handmaids are honored in an elaborate funeral ceremony — like everything in Gilead, even funerals operate according to a scarily preordained order.
When a primary nomination seems preordained with the one-two punch of Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic voters can be less engaged.
According to Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, two historians who have written the story of their lives together, this meeting felt preordained.
The NFL is a good example: There are dominant teams like the Patriots, but also enough underdog stories that nothing feels preordained.
To keep players on track and to aid them in firefights with enemies, 4A Games allows teleportation only between certain preordained locations.
Wade and undo the Affordable Care Act, tell your senators they should not vote for a candidate from Mr. Trump's preordained list.
Likewise, those trying to help need to know that grief cannot be fit into a preordained time frame or form of expression.
And yet it might have appeared preordained, too, given that Hegerberg's childhood home essentially functioned as an incubator for lethal soccer talent.
It's equally not preordained that these apps will make traffic worse, or that they must come at the expense of public transit.
Both have a preordained verdict In the sham trials of the Jim Crow South, everyone knew the verdict before it was delivered.
Even in that desperate scene, her presence was gracefully sad rather than melodramatic, with Lisa's suicide seeming both shocking and somehow preordained.
As the Patriots neared the Chiefs' goal line, a winning touchdown and a ninth Patriots Super Bowl appearance this century seemed preordained.
Y., SENATE MINORITY LEADER: Americans should make it clear that they will not tolerate a nominee chosen from President Trump&aposs preordained list.
But in the midst of the fight, with its regular disappointments and its grinding daily effort, winning the vote felt anything but preordained.
"What ensued was a cynical search to find some reason, any reason, or an agency request to justify that preordained result," wrote Seeborg.
Art provides a means of keeping abreast of political events without slipping into despair; there are horizons beyond those outcomes preordained in headlines.
The Democratic insistence on consuming all of that time before a preordained outcome had exhausted the patience of Mr. McConnell and his cohorts.
The press bureau gave out the elliptical response the government had preordained, and when his jet landed, Berezovsky was told to say nothing.
It doesn't include any contemporary insights from inside the F.B.I. The memo appears to have been hastily assembled to justify a preordained outcome.
As the GOP effort to rip up the Affordable Care Act veers towards collapse, it's easy to conclude that its failure was preordained.
"We have no room for complacency and history makes clear that America has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield," Mattis added.
Marijuana was preordained as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse" despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
"The thing about the show is that the relationships that work are the ones that were not preordained before the show started," said Wells.
In Boston the expectation is that he is so perfect a replacement for the retiring David Ortiz that ending up there is practically preordained.
Although we've already seen AI best human beings at games — chess, Go, and recently even StarCraft — those have clear, finite sets of preordained rules.
Do they stick to the path seemingly preordained for them, or do they take charge of their lives and decide what fate befalls them?
Yes, by the end of his life, Madiba embodied the successful struggle for human rights, but the journey was not easy, it wasn't preordained.
And their story line is preordained: A forced confession, a show trial, a sentence to years of hard labor with little chance of appeal.
Last, each would be eaten in a bun with the judge's preordained condiments — the same for each dog, to keep the flavor profile consistent.
This deep seated hatred preordained that members of the opposing gangs could not conceive of any circumstances that could justify reaching across the divide.
When the movie reached its several preordained climaxes — in which our heroes find what they've been looking for all along — I found myself moved.
From the moment he and Elwood meet, they're familiar trains — the lone gunman and the broken-down hero — running on tracks whose intersection is preordained.
Rehnquist had the luxury of doing nothing in particular in that Senate trial with an outcome preordained by the mutual agreement of the two parties.
Today, the politicians in power take offense at any cultural criticism as if their actions are preordained and as if those actions are inherently Jewish.
But it has more in common with the other two in that it is made to fit a preordained profile of aroma, flavor and texture.
It may be an impulse, especially among those who hold the resources and power necessary to do it, but it is not preordained by any means.
"Proactively nurturing your Twitter account," as you will all no doubt be aware, typically being one of the preordained sentences that signals the end of times.
That is not preordained, but even if power is dispersed regionally, China, India and Brazil all stand differently politically, which could cause tensions of their own.
Her goal is to construct narratives that ultimately free the viewer from preordained ideas and to have them scrutinize the works by letting their imaginations roam.
Kim's brainstorming with President Xi on common strategy on the eve of a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in April was virtually preordained.
Much twentieth-century modernist music sounded like—and actually was—the outcome of a preordained process, the working out of a utopian or a mathematical idea.
That the United Kingdom is on the brink of collapse reminds us that its integrity was not preordained—that it was, in fact, maintained by violence.
The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, an anticlimactic result that felt preordained ever since Kevin Durant broke The Player's Tribune 22019 months ago.
Both candidates mounted major efforts to lure voters to the ballot box for an Election Day that was all but preordained to have a light turnout.
Instead of tacitly accepting that inaction is preordained for the remaining two years of the Trump presidency, Congress should send Mr. Trump legislation addressing this crisis.
A group of prisoners act as a moving Greek chorus while Stevenson doggedly searches for the truth and McMillian awaits a fate that feels tragically preordained.
In Michael Crichton's original "Westworld," the robot revolt was as preordained as the dinosaur rampage in his "Jurassic Park," an example of chaos theory in action.
Trump on Trial In pressing toward their preordained vote of acquittal, Senate Republicans made it clear they see their fortunes and futures intertwined with the president's.
"Let us spend the next six months attempting to draw new voters to our party instead of demanding fealty to a preordained choice," the three wrote.
That got me thinking: There are so many threats to life on this fragile planet, cataclysms preordained in the stars and environmental disasters spurred by humanity itself.
In this manner, the outcome of sanctions is preordained; even if sanctions are kept in place for the next hundred years, they will not weaken Russian's resolve.
By following a sequence of a hundred or so programmed steps, each robot can construct a preordained structure: a wall, a staircase, or a four-sided building.
Yet despite her commitment to the role — and the generally fine supporting performances — this timorous tale sidesteps uncomfortable realities in favor of soothing whimsy and preordained uplift.
Second, conspiracy theories are circulating that suggest certain people become infected for a preordained reason — like the idea they could be part of a global pedophile ring.
Preordained opening hours mean that the time the line should start moving is predictable, which can sometimes cause customers to become more agitated as the end approaches.
Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, a Republican, and Doug Jones of Alabama, a Democrat, do not possess enough power to change the preordained outcome of the vote.
But the nature of A Thousand Thoughts defies this, incorporating what you could call "active editing" to introduce a dynamic element to the preordained nature of cinema.
Every day, these physicians battle against what has often been genetically preordained—removing tumors and dangerous tissues, reconstructing bones, flesh and organs, or just attempting to alleviate pain.
"You can't stop what's meant to be," he tells her, begging for a chance to prove that the circumstances that brought them together are preordained, not merely happenstance.
Clinton both advertised and picked up big gains over the summer were not on their way to some preordained outcome, like the one in the last presidential contest.
Sengupta refers to the Hindu notion of karma, a preordained destiny based on the virtues and sins of previous lives, a psychic past that is impossible to escape.
Mr. McQuade said he thought too many of his colleagues were hung up on sending guests to venues they could walk to or were preordained as tourist-friendly.
But Shiffrin has already won 21 World Cup races — Vonn had four victories at the same age — and expanding her reach in the sport was all but preordained.
But what is also not acceptable, is the FCC's refusal to cooperate with state attorney general investigations, or allow evidence in the record that would undercut a preordained outcome.
Bialowieza's value, he argues, lies in being a laboratory for natural processes, not a museum cabinet stacked with a preordained mix of species, much less a source of wood.
In addition to providing another rationale for the non-prosecution of drug crimes, the preordained results of this "study" will set the stage for the elimination of criminal records.
But while the outcome for Mr. Garland may be preordained, at least for this year, the resolution of the political fight over the court vacancy is far from certain.
And in several cases, the result was preordained one way or another because both major party candidates in a given race were women, as in the Arizona Senate contest.
The orderly, preordained world that Beetle insures is upended when seemingly random events caused by human folly—instances known as Zed—overwhelm the company's machinery, rendering its predictions futile.
He has often made victory look so easy, even preordained, crossing finish lines at less than full speed with his arms spread wide and a grin on his face.
Mr. Modi's ascent, like that of many demagogues today, was preordained by the garish dreams of power, wealth and glory that colonized many minds in the age of globalization.
She said Mitchell told her their marriage was preordained and that she would be by his side as he took seven times seven wives and successfully battled the Antichrist.
Ms. Murata said she wanted to write from the perspective of someone who defied conventional thinking, particularly in a conformist society where people are expected to fulfill preordained roles.
While the team's pitching rotation was cobbled together with bric-a-brac from across the baseball spectrum, just about every aspect of the Cubs' offense seemed all but preordained.
They weren't kids of the primary school variety, but fully-fledged, weird-smelling teens who gelled their hair and effortlessly fell into the top tier of a preordained social hierarchy.
In a genre that's largely defined by its hero-villain dichotomy, Ward was the (relatively) ordinary guy who reminded us that good and evil aren't preordained destinies, but everyday choices.
Nothing about Hitler's ascent to power -- from an obscure blowhard spouting crackpot racial theories in beer halls in 1920s Munich to becoming the master of much of Europe -- was preordained.
Opponents of Trump's decision to reduce the size of Grand Staircase and nearby Bears Ears National Monument feel the decision was preordained, and the public comment process mere window-dressing.
That conclusion seems preordained by the authors' starting assumption that chronic Lyme—"a vaguely defined term that has been applied to patients with unexplained prolonged subjective symptoms"—doesn't really exist.
Unlike Dolla $ign, whose stardom seems preordained—his father, Tyrone Griffin, Sr., was a member of Lakeside who encouraged his children's musicianship—TeeCee's career is almost the result of happenstance.
There came to be a not entirely hyperbolic narrative of McKinsey's preordained white-shoe path through the world — the Harvard Business School recruit turned McKinsey consultant turned rising corporate titan.
And I'm just raising the fact that there are considerations there, which is that you are then limiting political discourse to a set of preordained voices and outlets and publications.
Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl halftime performance was widely criticized, but in many ways, that response was preordained, the endpoint of a backlash that had been swelling for months on Twitter.
UConn's admirers salute the team for setting a high bar, while critics lament the effect on the growth of the sport when the national title essentially appears preordained every year.
As the Verge noted, Facebook and YouTube both hemmed and hawed for months about Jones and Infowars before Apple forced their hands, even though the conclusion was more or less preordained.
The implicit message: If all of these negative forces really do start to harm growth, the Fed will slow the pace of rate increases, rather than stick to some preordained path.
The castration certainly underlines the depravity of the villains, who with each bullet and flick of the blade strengthen the case against them, paving the way for their preordained bloody punishment.
The reason for Congress to hold hearings is not to reach a preordained result, but rather to answer in a public setting the question of whether the president's conduct is acceptable.
The senator is sending a message, to her constituents as well as to Mr. McConnell, that she does not want to be viewed as a rubber stamp for a preordained acquittal.
The menacing conclusion of Trump's frail syllogism – that "everybody would be very poor" if he were impeached, due to the epic and preordained market plunge – is also hyperbolic, false and revealing.
But for all the inequities, there is no script in sports, nothing preordained, and after hearing about and thinking about the number 60 for months, the Bulldogs used it for fuel.
But before it gives Bridget her preordained happy ending, Baby teases us with all the different paths she may have taken — and they're all more interesting than where she actually ends up.
With or without a god in the picture, plenty of people believe it's a sin to fight the universe's "preordained" plan for humanity, where men dominate women and white people run society.
This means that strategists are running extra long campaigns, and the people behind "Shape" will be working to keep the film in the fore without making it seem like the preordained winner.
Democrats are understandably disturbed by Mr. McConnell's stated intent to conduct a trial that is quick and superficial — slapdash, to coin a term — with an outcome not only preordained but pre-announced.
Four years ago Democrats saw the antithesis of democracy — a back-room, preordained front-runner whose critics were labeled either misogynists or de facto enablers of the G.O.P. Michael BuitrónLong Beach, Calif.
It's only the fourth time in a century that an incumbent isn't on the ballot and in at least one of those elections, eight years ago, the winner, Mr. Emanuel, seemed preordained.
Punk makes me feel like I can do anything, because the wallsI see around me aren't real; religion, politics, standards, status quos—punk rock takes the power away from all those preordained establishments.
" It's the beginning of the process, not the end, they said, and they stressed "there is not a preordained course of action in terms of how these issues are going to be resolved.
Maybe all Rose really needs is to get away from the pressure and expectations that came with being a homegrown son of Chicago who was preordained to lead the Bulls to a title.
After boarding five different trains, the scientists dropped the plastic bags at preordained stations and punctured them with the tips of their umbrellas before exiting the subway to rendezvous with their getaway drivers.
But Mourinho's history at top clubs, including Porto, Chelsea (twice), Inter Milan and Real Madrid, is well established, so much so that one might say the future at Manchester United is almost preordained.
The problem for the Kremlin is how to generate excitement in a lifeless campaign with a preordained outcome and a candidate who finds campaigning distasteful and the idea of a presidential debate unthinkable.
In pressing inexorably toward their preordained vote of acquittal, Senate Republicans made it clear they see their fortunes and futures intertwined with the president's, and are not willing to rock the 2020 boat.
He does not, like so many of his peers, prioritize style over everything else; he does not sacrifice his individuals for the glorification of a preordained idea; he prefers earthy pragmatism to philosophy.
For weeks, the demise of the Supreme Court filibuster had seemed preordained — like a moldering stadium with a demolition date — even as members lamented the inevitability as a low moment for the Senate.
To allow the articles of impeachment to go to trial when the outcome is preordained would make a mockery of the impeachment process and offer an opportunity for President Trump to claim exoneration.
The swapping out of Daniel for Jack and the addition of a fetus skews the Bridget Jones triangle somewhat, but it's still the same damn shape, forcing Baby to conform to its preordained narrative.
Why they might not: Prestige-season biopics are risky business since they're so often formulaic uplift-machines that are designed to shove the audience's emotions through preordained motions of sadness, anger, and renewed hope.
But his route to being granted one of the first doctoral degrees in American civilization by Harvard and becoming an English professor at Smith College and Harvard was, much like history itself, hardly preordained.
There's this thing where it's like, you could spend money on it, or you could find some pinecones outside, but you spend the money because it already comes from this preordained world of taste.
Projecting adult success onto any 2000-year-old is a fool's errand, of course; hyped young athletes across all sports, both boys and girls, regularly fail as they travel seemingly preordained paths to stardom.
" The charges against Papadopoulos, "a bit player in this whole sorry melodrama," were "preordained at the very moment he agreed to be interviewed by federal agents because if they want you, they got you.
The action could feel spring-loaded, preordained, but what follows is a stunning and strange encounter with a self-described "bandit" who attempts to mug Joseph during his loop through the tree-lined neighborhood.
Punk makes me feel like I can do anything, because the walls I see around me aren't real; religion, politics, standards, status quos—punk rock takes the power away from all those preordained establishments.
You could follow the preordained path, but the fastest route is as the crow flies, which will take you off the road, into caves, through verdant wineries, over mountains, and in and out of forest.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: ...part of its charm resides in the eerie, almost dreamlike effect of continually producing familiar elements, reshuffled and reconfigured, a reaching back to the past and hinting at a preordained future.
None of that was preordained in the late 1960s, when the Dyes took a helicopter over thousands of acres of sugar cane and a lone sugar mill in La Romana that became Casa de Campo.
As he monomaniacally pursues a cryptic trail, his own descent into madness feels preordained, and we're left to muddle through a hallucinatory denouement that smacks more of old-school acid trip than science or magic.
" Nokia declined to comment on the note and would neither confirm nor deny its authenticity, but a spokesperson told The Verge: "We now need to see how the strategic review progresses — there is no preordained outcome.
Playing a father whose concealment of his sexuality leads him to suicide, Zubin Varla projects a scarily indrawn quality that keeps you guessing moment to moment about his damped-down desires, however preordained the bruising conclusion.
Less than a year after Brexit stunned this country, and seven months after Donald Trump won in the United States, a political outcome that seemed certain and preordained was upset by people actually going to vote.
If we were consequentialists, it would be nearly impossible to act anywhere without some sort of preordained guarantee that a conflict area — which likely hadn't been "stable" for years or decades — could all of a sudden stabilize.
It says much about Vivier and his music's preoccupations that such a tragic coincidence has been assumed to have been more than an accident — that it was somehow preordained or even asked for, a kind of suicide.
Here are some lessons from the last several months of corruption trials: It was all but preordained that Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos would be convicted again when they stood trial for the second time this year.
Yet I also returned from my trip thinking that this American anxiety tends to be misplaced in one crucial way: China is not preordained to supplant or even match the United States as the world's leading power.
They're so focused on setting up the endgame that they forget to tell interesting or coherent stories in their own right, which leads to the feeling that everything is just sorta happening to reach a preordained conclusion.
In this telling, the way Clinton won the primary is the reason her victory feels hollow: It was nearly preordained, and the seriousness of the challenge Sanders posed just shows what a flawed candidate she really is.
I loved the little party she threw for June, and the ways she seemed to be trying to get the various Handmaids to break out of their preordained scripts and talk about literally anything other than the weather.
Still, it seems preordained that there will be a series of plays in which San Francisco blankets Baltimore's receivers, creates a ton of interior pressure, and still fails to keep Jackson from finding his way to the edge.
With transfer agreements, "if a patient has a problem, there is already a preordained method by which the patient is transferred," former Ohio Department of Health Director Theodore Wymyslo testified in the Toledo case in state appeals court.
If everyone has a preordained destiny — a theme Game of Thrones has maintained since the beginning — the episode served as a bracing reminder that life can always take a sharp turn from what you thought was the designated path.
A few items on the menu seem preordained, less a function of Ms. Hyun's culinary imagination than of the needs of a young East Village crowd: a pork belly taco, truffle mac and cheese, avocado as a solo act.
Each tiny metro line follows a preordained set of standards, determined by Dovak, which include lines that are at most three pixels, angles extending no less than 45 degrees, and all metro designs fitting inside a 120-pixel circle.
That Tavares, the No. 213 overall pick by the Islanders in the 221 draft, would be tasked with helping end the Leafs' 274-season Stanley Cup drought — or that he would play pro hockey at all — was not preordained.
His meeting Thursday morning with Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, was one of several that have lasted at least 45 minutes, with some stretching on for an hour — a considerable time given the preordained futility of the sessions.
That Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks' shared performance of it at the C.M.A. Awards on Wednesday night caused such a stir was perhaps preordained — even in this most sonically polyglot of country moments, there remains deep, deep resistance to change.
Political prognosticators, like yours truly, have been telling Americans for months that the outcome for President Trump is all but preordained: Party-line impeachment by Democrats in the House, a party-line vote against removal by Republicans in the Senate.
In return, members of the evangelical "old guard" — from Jerry Falwell Jr. to Tony Perkins — have continued to vociferously support Trump, even going so far as to suggest his presidency was preordained by God, despite the protestations of an increasingly vocal evangelical minority.
But it also empowers a junta-stacked senate and several unusual committees to baby-sit incoming governments—which includes giving these bodies the right to intervene should elected politicians choose to pursue their own policies instead of sticking to the generals' preordained plan.
So though Cabello's departure from the group — in December 2016 — generated endless fan commentary, it didn't quite captivate casual pop listeners the way Zayn Malik's departure from One Direction had, or inspire the mainstream cultural speculation of Beyoncé's seemingly preordained solo launch.
Instead, restless senators, accustomed to constantly checking their phones, conferring with staff and spending little time on the floor, fidgeted through the proceeding, appearing by turns exhausted and frustrated, as the trial consumed hour after hour even though the result was preordained.
When the show's relentless sadism is preordained, as it seems to be for the time being, there's no lasting tension, no real emotional conflict, and no brighter day in the morning that can make the violence of the present feel less exploitative.
It would be a decade before the leader of ISIS — a group considered too extreme even by al-Qaeda's standards — would publicly announce the establishment of a Muslim "caliphate" in 22019, one supposedly preordained to force the non-Muslim world to submit to Islam.
If the president, Sergio Mattarella, gives the green light, Mr. Conte will assemble a team of ministers, who are expected to be preordained by Mr. Di Maio and Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant League party, and Mr. Di Maio's new coalition partner.
Since scientific liberalism of the kind Mokyr details believes that history doesn't have a preordained plot, and that the individual case, not the enveloping essence, is the only quantum that history provides, it is hard for it to dramatize itself in quite this way.
Judge Seeborg's 126-page opinion said that Secretary Ross's purported consultation with the Census Bureau was "a cynical search to find some reason, any reason, or an agency request to justify that preordained result" – the very definition, according to Judge Seeborg, of an arbitrary and capricious act.
Since then, they have passed the performance duties on to Ayesha Antoine and Felix Scott, who do what they can to make their account of two reluctant lovers' inevitable commingling feel freshly minted, even if the trajectory from initial lust to hard-earned love is preordained.
Analyst: Launch 'preordained' by North Korea Trump's administration has delivered a drumbeat of warnings about the dangers of North Korea this week, using presidential statements, an unusual White House briefing for the Senate, and a White House lunch for UN ambassadors to underscore that Pyongyang is a priority.
In a World Series filled with drama and headed to a Game 63 on Wednesday night, it seems almost preordained that the Dodgers will now send Darvish to the mound to start the game, which means he will be pitching again to Gurriel, with everything on the line.
Yet, if the ultimate outcome has seemed preordained for weeks, lawmakers nonetheless felt compelled on Tuesday to frame the confrontation on their terms: Republicans have argued that the responsibility for their own prospective vote — upending Senate tradition to bypass the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations — actually lies with Democrats.
According to Ars Technica's report, the records in question could shed light as to just who was filing the fraudulent comments—which, along with the agency's later-debunked claims of a cyber attack on the comment system, ultimately could have helped the FCC reach its preordained conclusion despite widespread public opposition.
Specifics surrounding exactly how and where Barrow met Tusk, as well as his planned route for getting to the preordained meeting point, were reportedly kept quiet for fear of impassioned Remain campaigners possibly attempting to intercept the letter and disrupt the timing of the agreed plan for this historic event.
In a single two-week period this summer, seven people were killed by extremists in Borough market, the Conservatives failed to win their preordained majority in the general election, and a fire ripped up the sides of a 24-story block of public housing in west London, killing 71 people.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WILMINGTON, Delaware — The quirks, diversions, and counter-narratives offered by small museums often feel preordained to shake up engrained attitudes and assumptions, and so it goes with the Delaware Art Museum, which, to be honest, didn't seem at first glance to be a such a promising prospect.
Say he wanted a forum debate to reach conclusion X: One member of the restricted group would suggest X, a second would argue for contradictory conclusion Y, and over time a third would post a variation on X—and so on, subtly driving the rest of the unwitting employees toward the preordained conclusion.
"While Morningstar stated it never claimed its star ratings are not preordained to be a 'predictive measure,' many investors and advisors alike consciously drift into the realm of utilizing five-star-rated funds like a cat to catnip," said Jon W. Ulin, certified financial planner and managing principal of Ulin & Co. Wealth Management.
As Americans, we tend to take free elections and smooth transitions very much for granted; but as we have seen since the Arab Spring (and before), they are not par for the course in the Middle East and North Africa, where the political process, if any, all too often involves bloodshed and preordained results.
On our trip, it became a joke: "What does the spreadsheet say we're doing for lunch?" my boyfriend would ask, and I'd read it out like it was preordained (because it was.)   The experience was so successful, our trip so seamless, that today, I make a spreadsheet using that same template for every vacation.
This is not a new thematic fixation for Fuller: The first series he created on his own, 2004's Dead Like Me, doesn't contain a romantic life/death pairing, but it is about a group of dead people helping usher the living to their preordained deaths, while simultaneously struggling to function as dead people in the living world.
Day 281: "Walk In" / "Walk Out" – Tha Carter, 2004 It was all preordained, the moment Dwayne Michael Carter finally got through on the phone to the Cash Money brothers, Baby and Slim, who he'd been calling for weeks—they were New Jack City in the Crescent City, dope pushers with a vision of an empire built around a Carter.
After five years of unfamiliar futility that was prolonged by disappointing draft picks, comical mismanagement, and humiliating free agent pitches that eventually convinced their front office to pay Timofey Mozgov like the preordained savior Jim Buss always knew he was, the Los Angeles Lakers finally landed the exact (only?) player who could resurrect their reputation as the wealthiest franchise in NBA history.
Though the outcome of Trump's trial has appeared preordained for weeks — conviction and removal from office would require an unrealistic 20 Republican defections— potential witnesses and new evidence released by House Democrats last Tuesday could entangle the vice president in a mess he has deliberately tried to sidestep as he considers a White House bid of his own in 2024.
And while the eventual couplings are never in doubt, the preordained nature of the piece allows for ample comedy at the expense of that evergreen topic, class — the subterfuge ramped up by the director, Paul Miller, so that unsuspecting playgoers become occasional confidants of a rambunctious ensemble of actors who might be more appealing if they tempered an exuberance bordering in some cases on egotism.
There is no way to tell if the words incited the music; if the music, playing in the songwriter's head or in the studio as the song came together, incited the words; if a certain run on Michael Bloomfield's guitar or Al Kooper's electric piano put the feeling of a rubber band snapping back in your face as Dylan sang the line "Now the fifth daughter on the 12th night"; or if the words incited the musical phrases that made the words seem less written than preordained, facts outside time or intention.
It's not just that you went home and read Thomas Merton and reread a line you'd underlined in his book "Seeds of Contemplation," which stated in no uncertain terms that humility was the only antidote to despair—that you read it a few times and then went into a deep contemplation out on your back deck, smoking a cigar, wondering if there was a way to become humble before the preordained humiliation of a chemical addiction, wondering if the narrative thrown around your brother would look just as absurd when folks in the future found out that it had nothing at all to do with the way the compounds locked into receptors but originated with something else that was, at that time, out on the deck, out in the world, as mysterious to you as it was to everyone else.

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