predetermining

This President gotta be genius in predetermining what kind of taxes will be implemented.

'Bush-ama' tax cuts: The $2.2 trillion decision 2010

But I don't like the idea of predetermining what the kids are going to turn out to be.

Tablet Magazine 2009

It's Election Day and with the polls still open, pundits aplenty are predetermining the election outcome as a pack, with few free thinkers straying from the herd.

Christine Pelosi: Election Day Update From the Field: Don't Suppress Us With Your Punditry: Let Our People Vote! Christine Pelosi 2010

The Obama administration is predetermining the fate of hundreds of thousands more.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: The Burden of Record-Breaking Deportations The Media Consortium 2010

So in a way, it looks like the U.S. is basically predetermining final-status issues in those negotiations.

Wonk Room » Special Relationship Vs. Special Privileging 2009

For example, they flippantly toss out terms like "land swaps," "settlement blocks," and "Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem" without any acknowledgment of what they mean to Palestinians or what consequences each has in predetermining realities on the ground.

James Zogby: Trying to Be Hopeful About Peace 2010

For example, they flippantly toss out terms like "land swaps," "settlement blocks," and "Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem" without any acknowledgment of what they mean to Palestinians or what consequences each has in predetermining realities on the ground.

James Zogby: Trying to Be Hopeful About Peace 2010

For example, they flippantly toss out terms like "land swaps," "settlement blocks," and "Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem" without any acknowledgment of what they mean to Palestinians or what consequences each has in predetermining realities on the ground.

James Zogby: Trying to Be Hopeful About Peace 2010

Thus, we limited beings affect the “future,” while Buddhas validly cognize “the future” without predetermining what “the future” will be.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Six: Using Analogies with Quantum Mechanics, Clearing away Doubts That Might Arise 2009

Even the names of recent theological intellectuals Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr., are usually invoked through the anti intellectual prism of predetermining a position and justifying that viewpoint by merely quoting one of these intellectual giants.

Byron Williams: Is 2009 the Year of the Intellectual? 2009