| 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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| 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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| Critical to Calvinism was the doctrine of predestination, which regarded the salvation or damnation of each soul as preordained. |
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| But who can help but feel differently about an athlete who is genetically preordained for success? |
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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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| What would happen if I decided to choose a different path then what's been preordained? |
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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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| The coming correction was preordained by bad policy choices backed by erroneous economic theories. |
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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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| 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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| Instead of a rhyme scheme, the words at line end in the first stanza recur according to a preordained arrangement in the subsequent sexains and in the envoy. |
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| This exhibition reminds us that such a result was hardly preordained. |
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| Politicians have no business making preordained decisions on the future of people being brought before the courts. |
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| But it behooves us to acknowledge that the fruits of a virtuous circle of economic success are not preordained. |
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| No deviation from the preordained agenda and defined principles set by the Government has been reportedly accepted. |
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| At first, westerners tried to shrug this off as a temporary blip in the preordained scheme of things. |
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| Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate. |
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| Contrary to some ideologues, democracy is not a preordained state towards which everyone will move inevitably. |
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| How comfortable would you as parents be to distinguish between your two daughters simply because of their preordained sexual preference? |
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| The law does not apply itself, and the answers to constitutional questions are not obvious or preordained. |
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| It was supposedly preordained, ever since Peyton Manning shredded the Baltimore Ravens for seven touchdowns in the season opener. |
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| The witches generally represent some version of the Fates and make Macbeth believe that life is preordained. |
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| But I thought it was worth underscoring because when it comes to science, we assume all previous discoveries were preordained. |
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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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| It appealed to those in opposition of Calvinism, which includes the belief that the destiny of each individual is preordained. |
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| While considerable options for further monetary stimulus remain, their use is not preordained and will solely be determined by their appropriateness in achieving the inflation target. |
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| It is peculiar rather than universal, accidental rather than teleologically preordained. |
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| This is not a preordained situation where we cannot do anything. |
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| Aristotle also held that the level of a creature's perfection was reflected in its form, but not preordained by that form. |
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| While the Patriots' presence seemed preordained, the Giants' prospects were stuck on an endless loop of fair to middling as recently as Christmas. |
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| They are not preordained consequences of economic growth. |
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| Are we to believe that villainy preordained Egypt's crepuscule, a dark place? |
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| Historical destinies are directional, not precisely preordained. |
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| Those are also five minutes, including both the question and the responses from the various members, and we go around the table in a sort of preordained fashion. |
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| In their place, we are recognizing that there are no preordained boundaries in the way the natural system functions and in how humans interact with and within it. |
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| If you give over the floor to lawyers you are more likely to hear arguments based on the charter of rights, which inevitably takes something of a preordained path. |
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| It is not an immutable, preordained region but rather one of circumstance. |
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| Obstacles to trade will not be dismantled, which is what the main aim of the legal act should be, rather they will actually be preordained for when the directive comes into force. |
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| However, the outcome is far from preordained. |
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| Money was the instrument through which later societies unshackled themselves from preordained social orders and became individualistic. With money came speculation, bringing in turn those endemic financial crises. |
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| There are many things going for us – but nothing is preordained. |
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| If God wanted to judge and condemn us according to preordained values, the laws of Deuteronomy and the standards of the Beatitudes are already a matter of record. |
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