Critics, led by Western states and the timber companies, argued all along that the outcome was preordained and noted that states and communities in the West were given no role in the decisionmaking.
With the largely preordained voting at the Democratic State Convention yesterday, it was no surprise that Bill Mulrow, a Westchester businessman, would win the party's designation for comptroller.
The legislature's actual action — required by the state constitution — was preordained and almost unanimous, but was accompanied by repeated testimonies in praise of Ms. Underwood, who had been serving as solicitor general before her elevation to New York's top law enforcement position.
At the same time, banks are required to funnel that money at preordained higher rates to favoured businesses, mainly state-owned enterprises (SOEs).The financial repression guaranteed profits for banks and an easy life for bankers, but made savers lose money.
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.
Lest anyone believe Vice President Pence's claim that "this commission has no preconceived notions or preordained results," Trump was on hand last week to state clearly what its agenda is.
Faulting Captain Fuentes for commenting publicly on the case, Mr. Sciarra said: "He was in the paper saying, 'This is reprehensible, and these guys can't be state troopers.' It became clear that the outcome was preordained".
A similar fault line has shown up in recent weeks in the CDU, between those who want the party to push for more economic freedom and reform and those who do not want it to be too "capitalist".At least in relative terms, the outcome seems to be preordained: the SPD will argue for a somewhat larger role for the state than the CDU.
An Arizona appellate court upheld those accounts, known as ESAs, ruling that they did not violate the state constitution because the money went to parents and was not "preordained" for private or religious schools.
