"Otherwise the court will have predetermined the winner of the midterm elections," Mr. Schumer said.
"The Anita Hill hearing was a disaster, but they did have an FBI investigation; they did have other witnesses," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash). said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," charging that Republican senators had "predetermined the outcome" and set up a "he said, she said" showdown around Ford's allegations.
Because the team had predetermined the content standards their unit would be aligned with, they limited discussion of the multiple, inter-related scientific concepts (e.g., friction and force) that could have been incorporated.
"The Senate Republicans have predetermined the outcome... that this will be a he said, she says, by taking that away," Murray added.
Verlaine said that, because he had predetermined the structure of the album, only those eight songs and a few others were attempted during the recording sessions.
U.S. District Judge Terence C. Kern shot down the lawsuit filed by Abigail Ross, saying a jury wouldn't buy her claims that the university, in Oklahoma, had predetermined the accused student, Patrick Swilling Jr., was not guilty before a hearing.
In a transient expression condition, we have predetermined the optimum transfection conditions [DNA concentration (total 10 µg/10-cm culture dish), molar ratios (H∶L = 1∶1 or 1∶2) (data not shown), use of lipofectamine (LF -LTX reagent, and CHO-K1 ceLF -LTXng eight differeagentst cells tested].
In an approved short sale property agreement, the lender and the seller have already agreed to sell the home for less than the amount owed on the loan, and typically, the lender has predetermined what price is acceptable.
For the phone-hacking arrestees, therefore, the question is whether at this stage the parliamentary committee or the inquiry has predetermined their guilt.
