Sentence examples for preordained decision from inspiring English sources

"We haven't given the government these rights, and we feel this was a preordained decision," she said.

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.

She accepted the outcome in the gracious manner I have come to expect of her and she felt privileged to be nominated.No animosity and although she felt the decision preordained she was just happy to be considered.[sic].

BHP's decision was all but preordained after the Canadian government's decision earlier this month, which scuttled it for not representing a "net benefit" for Canada.

John E. Bierwirth, superintendent of the Herricks School District on Long Island, said he believed the decision was preordained.

Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, agreed with Ms. Cuomao's evaluation of the trial, noting that the 10-page verdict released Thursday night came several hours after the end of the trial, strongly suggesting that the decision was preordained.

By the middle of Monday, his visit seemed a last gasp: He was told that the decision was all but preordained, officials said.

But in a decision that was clearly preordained, the court declared Mr. Xu guilty and sentenced him to spend what may be much of the rest of his life in prison.

In some cases migration was premeditated or preordained; in other cases it was almost a spur of the moment decision.

Each decision they have made seems to be a link in a chain of almost preordained events.

Other dishes are preordained.