Sentence examples for preordination from inspiring English sources

Serendipity and coincidence are the photosynthesis of romance, hinting at some kind of supernatural preordination, the sense that two people are made for each other.

TURNBERRY, Scotland — Not the onrush of history, not the seeming preordination of the champion, not the brutal crosswind off the firth or crowds of thousands of Scots who roared almost exclusively for his astounding 59-year-old opponent could stop Stewart Cink from winning the 138th British Open on Sunday.

In the years since 9/11, producers have found rich thematic material in the arguments for and against preordination, resulting in series like "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Lost" and now "FlashForward," which begins in such a spirit of bracing suspense that I am challenged to recall another pilot that lured me so quickly into addiction.

In the Principles I:40 41 discussion, Descartes appeals to divine incomprehensibility to make sense of how human freedom and divine preordination are to be reconciled.

He does admit that "we can easily get ourselves into great difficulties if we attempt to reconcile this divine preordination with the freedom of our will, or attempt to grasp both these things at once" (AT 8A:20, CSM 1 206).

If Descartes holds that potential being is strictly speaking nothing, and if his ontology and his commitment to divine immutability, divine preordination, and (his particular conception of) omnipotence bar possibilities from his system, it is not exactly clear what to make of the possibility of mind and body existing in separation.