With no one to mediate our feelings of fear, anger, anxiety and sadness and help us determine their appropriateness, before long they deliver us a distorted sense of self, a perceptual fracturing or a profound irrationality.
"Usually elections are determined long before the actual vote," said the political scientist Dimitris Keridis.
Railway infrastructure and capacities are to be determined long before the actual traffic is known.
The real gateway to the Olympic park had been determined long before – in the form of a gigantic shopping mall.
The next general election is at least a year away, maybe two, but its outcome may be determined long before then; the winners, the losers, indelibly marked by the coming propaganda war of headlines.
This is where our blind spot lies: success nominally attributed to the beneficial effects of education, especially graduating from college, is in truth largely a result of factors determined long before children even enter school.
The government was spurred on to make bigger commitments to child care when it became convinced that children's educational attainment, and therefore their power to earn, might be determined long before they got to school.
SAN MARINO — The nonleague girls' tennis match between Burbank High and San Marino had been determined long before the final singles set got underway.
This suggests that cell fate is determined long before it is apparent in cellular behavior.
Before long, though, it became difficult to determine who was on which side.
Before long, these delusions collide.
