Sentence examples for preordained in from inspiring English sources

"The result is preordained in most of these districts.

The jihadis instead saw themselves at the vanguard of a war that many among them believed had been preordained in the formative days of Islam.

So perhaps it is easy to view Hillary Clinton's nomination as the Democratic party's candidate for president of the United States as "inevitable" – even preordained – in 2016.

The firing was preordained in the script on how to stave off major N.C.A.A. penalties, and keeping Pearl around would be carrying way too much baggage into those enforcement hearings, writes David Climer in The Tennessean.

In 1985 he was wishing the same for another show of his: "Moonlighting," whose run as one of the top series ever was by no means preordained in its first year.

These views, formed along contemporary faultlines of power and patronage, drove a widespread Sunni resistance, a mix of non-ideologues enraged by losing jobs, status and dignity, and others, like the jihadis, who believed the war had been preordained in Islamic prophecies.

In a single two-week period this summer, seven people were killed by extremists in Borough market, the Conservatives failed to win their preordained majority in the general election, and a fire ripped up the sides of a 24-storey block of public housing in west London, killing 71 people.

Is the technological future preordained — printed in the circuits of today's technology — or will it surprise us? (If the latter: In a good or a bad way?) Finally, in experimenting with nature, how much are we actually experimenting with ourselves?

The end result would be a physiologic state in which obesity is almost preordained, and one in which the carbohydrate-insulin connection could play a major role.

Sharapova's comeback was all but preordained; only once in her previous 32 Grand Slam appearances had she succumbed in the first round.

The entire tragedy in Waco, from its obscure origins in America's spiritual outlands to its spectacularly appalling conclusion, seemed haunted and in some cases preordained by the events in Jonestown.