preordained

House Democrats are demanding answers for what they called a preordained decision to reject Plan B and complained that emails and memos that might have explained the decision may have been destroyed.

CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2005 2005

This outcome was preordained from the start of the surge.

Matthew Yglesias » Non-Surprise of the Day 2007

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 2003

By knowing what the future holds, and how "fixed" it is -- that it is somehow "preordained" -- does understanding that just enervate, or stimulate?

Brad Balfour: Q & A: Actor Nicolas Cage Looks Ahead With "Knowing" 2009

His betrayal of the Nazi high command comes in June 1944, a moment when the ultimate capitulation of the Reich is ultimately preordained, which is presumably why he makes his deal.

Inglourious Basterds | ATTACKERMAN 2009

By knowing what the future holds, and how "fixed" it is -- that it is somehow "preordained" -- does that just enervate, or stimulate?

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Brad Balfour 2009

He calls it "a fiasco of more of the same" with a "preordained" agenda.

One last chance: can we save the tiger? Patrick Barkham 2010

Also, I'm still confused as to how Obama was "preordained" to be the Democratic nominee, after he was largely an underdog prior to the start of the primaries.

McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008

While a sale isn't "preordained," he said, carving out the business "could well drive the recovery that we've been talking about."

Motorola to Spin Off 2008

This meritocratic spirit, he wrote, along with the Puritan commitment to education and to books, "preordained" that Boston would be "a literary city."

Birthplace of a Magazine 2005