During this period, for instance, the author Fran Abrams has written: "on two separate days, at a preordained time and with no warning, hundreds of smartly dressed women from Oxford Street to Whitehall, all along Piccadilly and Bond Street, produced hammers from their muffs and laid waste to hundreds of square feet of shop frontage.
Abrams describes a London action in the early 1910s when, "on two separate days, at a preordained time and with no warning, hundreds of smartly dressed women from Oxford Street to Whitehall, all along Piccadilly and Bond Street, produced hammers … and laid waste to hundreds of square feet of shop frontage".
The plot is a satire on the Calvinist doctrine of predestination: the belief that God has, since the start of time, preordained the saved - those who will go to Heaven - and those heading for the other place.
When a flowing move by Steven Gerrard, Joe Cole and Kieron Dyer delivered the ball to him in stoppage time, it was preordained that Kramarenko would deny Owen.
Most of the time it was almost preordained; the 2010 men's champions, for instance, beat second-place Denison by 424 points.
Opposition leaders had declared the referendum a waste of time, and many Ugandans regarded the change preordained since President Yoweri Museveni had endorsed it.
He laid an extra layer of futility over his story by adding the perspective of the Planet Tralfamadore, where the inhabitants see all time as simultaneously present, and ended it with the preordained "Poo-tee-weet?" of a bird.
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.
For a long time, ecologists have thought this process, called succession, followed a fairly preordained course such that the same trees ultimately dominated the landscape once again.
It didn't go all the way — the sense of form stayed intact, with traded four-bar solos, preordained surges or dropouts, musicians joining songs and leaving them at appointed times — but there was an almost physical sense of challenge there.
Gaja's way to the pinnacle, however, was anything but simple, straightforward, or preordained, and is one of the wine trade's greatest success stories of all time.
