Sentence examples for preordain from inspiring English sources
"preordain" is a correct and usable word in written English
It generally means to predetermine or to decree in advance. Example: We all know what the outcome of this election will be; it's almost as if it was preordained.
verb
To determine the fate of something in advance
Nor did RBS's funding before ABN preordain nationalisation: in mid-2007 its absolute level of debt and interbank borrowing was similar to that of Barclays, the only big British domestic bank to avoid a state capital injection.
Indian officials, Mr Chidambaram included, often suggest that abundant funds and capital spending almost preordain fast growth.Drill down deeper, however, and things are less reassuring, says Sajjid Chinoy of J.P. Morgan.
Exposure to violent imagery does not preordain violence, but it is a risk factor.
But ne'er-do-well heirs crash and burn all the time proving that access to money and power does not preordain success.
While the government allows for the appearance of democratic practices, it makes sure to control the levers of authority to preordain the outcome, analysts and human rights groups charge.
Usually generals try not to preordain decisions for presidents in testimony, so it was widely seen as a sign of the military looking past Obama to the next commander-in-chief.
"There are many things going for us – but nothing is preordained".
But in truth the British presidency has achieved little that was not preordained, such as the formal choice of countries to join the euro and the start of talks with the five leading eastern candidates for joining the EU.
English joy is confined only by the fear that the loss will fire up the visiting Australian team for up until this Test it had seemed preordained that Australia would triumph.The next Test is due to begin on June 19th at Lord's cricket ground.
In July 1969 the American embassy in Jakarta sent a confidential cable to Washington saying that the Act of Free Choice was unfolding "like a Greek tragedy, the conclusion preordained".
Money was the instrument through which later societies unshackled themselves from preordained social orders and became individualistic.With money came speculation, bringing in turn those endemic financial crises.
