Sentence examples for preordained conclusion from inspiring English sources
The Bahraini president of the Asian Football Confederation, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa was appointed to head up a taskforce that, in typical Fifa style, would work for months on end before reaching a preordained conclusion.
Such voting, which critics called fraudulent, always had a preordained conclusion.
Here, as if overwhelmed by the task she has set herself, Goonan has reduced all her characters to puppets, obeying not the dictates of their ambitions and consciences but the author's need to push the story to its preordained conclusion.
As Mr. Conlon and others have argued, the dominance of serialism allowed it to define the story of its own victory, making its triumph seem like a preordained conclusion.
That he was to report directly to Mr. Powell and to be involved with task forces created by Mr. Powell to find strategies to improve educational quality and to lower costs by May — by some estimations a short amount of time to reach anything other than a preordained conclusion — only increased the hand-wringing.
The plot spoiler is in our hands — Wainaina obviously figured out that he must write to survive — yet the story of how he achieves this dream is gripping less for its preordained conclusion than for the way it unfolds in Wainaina's jazzy style: riffing, inside-jokey, un-self-conscious.
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".
A farcical UN-observed 1969 referendum to confirm Indonesias sovereignty unfolded like a Greek tragedy, the conclusion preordained, cabled a U.S. diplomat.
Newman says money spent on studying climate change has been "to largely preordain scientific conclusions".
Also the authors readily acknowledge that, while they encountered only three negative studies compared to the hundreds of positive studies, the methodology was specifically designed to identify and collect articles that were positive toward EM, making the conclusions somewhat preordained.
Both at the time and in odd hours since, watching actors and directors working together, I have wondered just what was the cause of the ever more open hostility between Burton and Ritt, and I have come to the conclusion that it was preordained.
