The word "foreordain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something was decided in advance, especially by divine will. For example, you could say: "The outcome of the election was foreordained before the day of the vote."
Abroad, it must promote and guarantee an expanded West (embracing Russia and Turkey) and balance the great powers of Asia.Like Mr Kagan, Mr Brzezinski does not believe America's decline is foreordained.
Given that candidates are sifted in advance for loyalty to the regime by a council of senior clerics, and that most of the opposition had declared a boycott, the outcome was essentially foreordained.
Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters' inability to change their lives.
The Calvinists emphasized that salvation is limited to those who are foreordained by God to receive it and are not capable of falling out of his grace.
Lassalle was for many decades considered a reformist heretic by the worker's movement, which then adhered to the deterministic notions of popular Marxism according to which the dictatorship of the proletariat was foreordained by history.
Then he announced yet another special meeting, to be held the following Monday — during which, it seemed foreordained, the board would reverse itself.
But, now that Iraq's demise is increasingly regarded as foreordained, it's worth recalling the optimism among Iraqis four years ago.
The earliest painting in the show, the miserable but interesting "Variations #7" (1959), suggests that his success was not foreordained.
Now all these events seemed foreordained: as if God had given him the chance to say goodbye to everyone before leaving this earth.
Like the modern yoking of art and money, and on account of it, this schism in scholarship was inevitable; but nothing foreordained the scale of Duveen's transmogrifications.
