Sentence examples for predetermined like from inspiring English sources

I didn't want any of the encounters to feel perfunctory or predetermined, like little boxes being checked on his roster of goodbyes.

"I felt like the Hernando Police Department came into it predetermined like it was attempted murder, and they had a pretty good little case," Ms. Milam said.

Our vulnerability to this attack was not something predetermined, like the cyclical shedding of a lobster's armored shell.

These groups are not institutionally predetermined like students in a class but form themselves autonomously in terms of networks of people or as communities.

And so haunted by memories of the carnage he saw and caused in Iraq, the feral title character of "Guinea Pig Solo" pursues a dazed, predetermined, Woyzeck-like course to a grisly homicidal conclusion.

As personalization becomes more pervasive, however, it has the potential to invisibly channel consumers who might mistakenly think they are browsing freely, limiting their experience to the views algorithms have predetermined they might like and act upon.

It comes to more than 5percentt of the discretionary budget, that part that excludes predetermined costs like interest payments on the national debt and programs like Social Security.

We suggest that the damped oscillations predetermine callus-like outgrowth.

Video S2: oscillations in auxin concentration simulated in the decapitated root may predetermine callus-like outgrowth.

There are, of course, notorious cases of corporate money buying predetermined conclusions, like the reports once put out by the Tobacco Institute to rebut concerns about smoking and cancer.

The working class belongs to no one: its orientation, far from predetermined, as the left liked to think, is a function of politics.