Sentence examples for pre-ordained sequence from inspiring English sources

The request for bids called for a "waterfall" approach to software development, where all aspects of the project would follow a pre-ordained sequence and likely cost the state nearly half a billion dollars.

Newly generated neurons possess an intrinsic pre-ordained sequence of events that determine at least some of their structural and functional phenotypes.

What's more, single-stranded DNA tags can be attached to particles and structures too small to see so that they will assemble themselves, by pairing into double helices, in pre-ordained ways dictated by their 'genetic' sequence – a kind of smart dust, if you will.

But nothing is pre-ordained.

Still, failure is not pre-ordained.

This year is starting to feel pre-ordained again.

"Many of its results were in many respects pre-ordained".

Critics believe that the body has been set up to come to pre-ordained conclusions.

"The triumph of McDonald's and its imitators was by no means pre-ordained".

Pre-ordained constitutional rules would seek to limit the accretion of power.

The contents page concedes that the novel must fit some pre-ordained shape.