Sentence examples for to be foreordained from inspiring English sources

But many in the capital who once assumed his nomination and election to be foreordained seem to see Mr. Bush's experiences in the primaries only as problems and to conclude that the primaries weakened Mr. Bush and strengthened Vice President Al Gore.

Over recent years, there has been more and more scientific consideration of obesity as an expression largely of hereditary and environmental factors beyond a person's ready control, and there has been evidence that one person's fatness versus another's thinness may to a significant extent be foreordained.

Obviously, if Bobby Jones were returned to life and health and then given his old hickory-shafted mashie, persimmon-headed driver, and rubber-core ball in a match against Jordan Spieth, the outcome would be foreordained.

It has to happen, it's foreordained to happen, you can't believe that it will happen, that it is happening.

The Calvinists emphasized that salvation is limited to those who are foreordained by God to receive it and are not capable of falling out of his grace.

Even when the attacks became personal and tinged with anti-Semitism, Benjamin never complained, and once stated that it was "wrong and useless to disturb oneself and thus weaken one's energy to bear what was foreordained".

"The Rosie Project" is the kind of Panglossian comedy in which everything is foreordained to work out for the best.

Through an active correspondence they developed the idea revolutionary at the time that by its nature and substance U.S. democracy was foreordained to degradation and decay.

Thus one may see why the United States insisted upon cruisers of the largest size at the convention held in Geneva — a convention that was foreordained to failure, because the naval needs of two of the powers represented differ fundamentally and materially.

But it could also seem like an elaborate pretext to wage a war that was foreordained by Washington.

The Reformed theological tradition is known for its rather severe doctrines such as predestination, which is the view that since God is all-knowing and all-controlling, he knew before the Universe was created who will go to Heaven or Hell these "elect" are foreordained.