Yet sometimes the outcome of a tournament seems predetermined as if decreed by a committee of the golfing gods, and, when Els rolled in the putt for par, it seemed destined to be his day.
In an election that is expected to cost upward of $2 billion, and where the outcome seems predetermined, it even sounds a little revolutionary.
By comparison, the actual explosion and months of oil spill seem predetermined.
A cleverly but comfortingly structured romp of mistaken identity and stolen opportunity, it's a rare contemporary romantic comedy in which attraction doesn't seem predetermined; its characters actually work toward an appreciation of each other.
Dallas's political stance seemed predetermined from the day he was born, in Acton, west London, when his staunchly socialist parents, Nancy (nee Knowles and Jackk, registered him as a member of the Labour party and named him Karl Frederick (after Marx and Engels).
Hence the Lesson of the Zil: When you look back on it, history may seem predetermined.
The number of banks and their sizes seem predetermined, though, and it is not clear what happens when the arrays are large, exceeding the size of the banks.
Before the start of the season and even through the first quarter of games played, the outcome of the Eastern Conference playoffs seemed predetermined: the Indiana Pacers would square off against the Miami Heat for a spot in the NBA Finals.
But, Professor Sapolsky said in a follow-up e-mail message, a person's risk seems not predetermined but rather the result of interactions of genes and the environment, especially stressors in childhood.
Gartner's findings are from the end of 2011 and covering just over 500 consumers in the UK, U.S. and Australia, was run as a diary where people recorded what they did on their three most-used devices: those, it seems, were predetermined as tablets, mobile devices and PCs.
Preventive medicine that would take care early and appropriately of suffering children should not be confused with predictive medicine that seems to predetermine - here in a negative way - the fate of children.
