| 单词 | preordain |
| 例句 | It was preordained, a bulletproof future they’d tricked themselves into believing was guaranteed to them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She felt like she’d been dropped onto the page, among the letters, or like the book had somehow drawn the Current to them, as if it were all preordained. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He gave his whole soul to love; he allowed himself to believe that his feelings for Hatsue had been somehow preordained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no room for chance in this world; all occurrences were preordained, and were caused either by the ancestral or evil spirits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With Congress clamoring for approval, Truman’s decision seemed preordained. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She has never believed in fate; it would’ve been dispiriting to accept that her life so far unfolded as it did according to some preordained pattern. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This rejection was a gift from your grandparents, who never tried to console me with ideas of an afterlife and were skeptical of preordained American glory. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For some of my classmates, college was preordained. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Would that mean God preordained them to marry no matter what? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The ossifying conviction that he was living out some ancient and preordained plan, encoded in his blood, built into the architecture of his name. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They did not answer her, for that would have taken time, and very basic enzymes of survival raced through the bloodstreams of the Meecham children as they headed for their preordained hiding place. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the final opera of the four, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner made mayhem with the Icelandic concept of Ragnarok - the destruction of the gods as preordained by fate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Sammy Cantu assured him the meeting would take place at the preordained time, maybe the agent had simply arrived early in order to look the town over and get his bearings straight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Presbyterians said her getting well was preordained. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In retrospect, history often seems preordained; vulnerabilities seem garishly announced, outcomes a matter of course. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series win for series star King was all but preordained; she's won four Emmys within the last six years. The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z At the end, though, even he seemed vulnerable, and Tosca’s stabbing him played out not so much as self-defense but as something preordained. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Failure is preordained, and "When We Leave" walks a delicate boundary between tragedy and a flimsier, easier form of pathos. 'When We Leave': Clashing cultures, stifled freedom ? and great acting 2011-04-07T19:23:04Z His face and his voice preordained him for a life of playing tough guys on television, film and in an extensive stage career. Bruce Gordon, TV Mobster, Dies at 94 2011-01-26T03:30:11Z In fact, “Nomadland’s” success seemed so preordained that the best picture prize wasn’t announced at the evening’s end: Instead, the climactic moment belonged to the two most competitive categories this year. Perspective | The 2021 Oscars, like the year they celebrated, were destined to be the most anticlimactic ever 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z But his ascension is not preordained: Between now and 2018, his leadership will be scrutinized by Disney's board, which will select the company's next leader. How Robert Iger's 'fearless' deal-making transformed Disney 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Three Choirs festival Hereford Cathedral Until 28 July Central to Bach's handling of this passion is the sense of the events being preordained. St John Passion – review 2012-07-26T15:43:26Z Unlike in Europe — where, in many regions, decisions about which grapes to plant were culturally preordained — Californians faced no such restrictions. You Can Teach an Old-Vine Grape New Tricks 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z She is not for determinism, and having lived umpteen lives as a host in Westworld where not only are events preordained but unremittingly brutal, you can understand why. Westworld recap: season 3, episode 5 – panic on the streets of LA 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Air travel, which forces passengers to behave in strict and regimented ways, to pass through tubes and gates and sit in preordained seats, was turned into a spectacle of choice, freedom and flow. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z We are conditioned to think of ownership as preordained and inevitable, bestowed through some natural order of things. Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “There’s a preordained desire to see certain people at least be nominated,” he said. Oscar Race Leaves Showbiz Reporters Hungry to Guess Winners 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z There are other customs and beliefs embedded in the story that clash with Western social ideals — for instance, the concept of a society rigidly divided into preordained castes. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z Nevertheless, some Russian officials are convinced that seizure of that country's cultural property is a preordained outcome of the court's decision. Dispute over archive leads Russia to nix art loans 2011-05-16T11:01:05Z This staging is effective because it is clinical, its motions carefully choreographed, as if not only dreamed but also preordained. Review: ‘Il Trionfo’ and ‘Pelléas’ at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z So in many ways, the sun-streaked conflict and misty boredom of “Siesta Key” is preordained, and also comforting. Review: ‘Siesta Key’ Returns to Reality Television’s Awkward Youth 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z In that climate, the movie's success was hardly preordained. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z The histories of kingdoms, which can seem preordained in retrospect, are built from such moments, when choices about shifting loyalties or how to define values reverberate far beyond the moment of reckoning. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Cobragrams and Faceless Men 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z That coincidence felt to me like a gift, as though our subsequent great bond were preordained. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Awards on Wednesday night caused such a stir was perhaps preordained — even in this most sonically polyglot of country moments, there remains deep, deep resistance to change. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It helps that no one wrings more theater from the preordained: Mr. Fieri arrives at a chosen spot. Guy Fieri, Elder Statesman of Flavortown 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Before that, Vuong said, “I thought all poets were preordained. The government decided. Obama or Bush or whatever said, ‘You, you, you.’ How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And each of course is pretentious in his or her own preordained way. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z He sensed himself as multiple selves, thrown into a world that preordained a single, given moral code. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z There’s a preordained quality to these early scenes, but Hornby moves Barbara along funnily enough through a few odd jobs and auditions before she reads for a part in a dreadful pilot called “Wedded Bliss.” From the author of ‘About a Boy,’ a comic novel set in the 1960s traces the rise of a sitcom star 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The tour is a self-guided, independent hike with guests following a preordained route. A New, and Historic, Hike in Ireland 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A chorus of MPs drilled them with preordained questions. Waiting for Murdoch 2011-07-22T18:00:01Z Even in that desperate scene, her presence was gracefully sad rather than melodramatic, with Lisa’s suicide seeming both shocking and somehow preordained. Review: A Young Soprano Meets the Hype at the Met Opera 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z And without that central sizzle, “The Pajama Game” can take an awfully long time to get to its preordained happy ending, notwithstanding the incidental pleasures along the way. Musical Revivals Offer Mixed Rewards 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z So there are still unknowns for this most documented and preordained of franchises. What Star Wars: The Force Awakens has to do to beat Avatar 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Her first reaction upon hearing her diagnosis was “embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness” in anticipation of the “preordained banality” that awaited her, she tells us. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In "Tupelo," Cave yowled of a prodigal infant born into the world, its future preordained. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Warner Bros. also ramped up the merchandising until, to many fans, the release of “Batman” felt like a preordained “event.” How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Films featuring iconic figures such as Dracula or Sherlock Holmes or James Bond aren't usually classified as remakes or sequels, even though the stories invariably trundle along preordained lines. Have remakes lost the plot? 2010-05-20T21:59:00Z Somehow, Damon's David Norris must outrun his fate in a world in which human destiny is preordained. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z As in any corrido, his actions were as preordained as they were doomed. 'A Narco History' explores Mexico's drug violence — and U.S. culpability 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Sonny’s anger will be the death of him; it’s preordained: He must die so that his youngest brother, the deliberate, mercilessly disciplined Michael, can take over the family’s murder business. Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Eisenhower's singular accomplishment, though, was in his delicate handling of nuclear weapons, whose prohibition was far from preordained at the beginning of his first term. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z Aside from the disarming simplicity of the third movement’s Ländler, Schiff’s playing sounded excessively manicured and oddly denatured, with every nuance and every turn of phrase sounding preordained. Review | Andras Schiff graces the faithful with a recital akin to a religious experience 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z And there are, unexpectedly, even surprises in store on a journey whose endpoint seems preordained. Review: Women’s Hard Choices, Cutting Deep at Williamstown Festival 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z "That said, this was never preordained to be a blockbuster kind of weekend and late August is typically a slowdown period for the summer movie season," he said. "The Help" holds on at top of storm-hit box office 2011-08-29T15:05:12Z The question is: Why are so many gathered for what is largely a scripted and preordained event? ‘This is preposterous,’ says the media about the media’s convention overkill 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z So perhaps this fellow’s path was preordained: Rainbow, 40, is a breakout YouTube star. Your Son Will Come Out Tomorrow: Randy Rainbow’s Memoir of Love, Turmoil and Trump 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The Quantum Leap project is restarted and the original hero, Sam Beckett, is still missing, so a Scott Bakula guest appearance seems pretty much preordained. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In the show, day after day, Westworld’s hosts wander in preordained narrative “loops,” which the park’s guests are free to unsettle, join, or terminate at their leisure. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z But never underestimate Larry David, whose “Curb Your Enthusiasm” took what was probably the one spot that wasn’t preordained. ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Reservation Dogs’ Are Among the Emmy Snubs 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Our intimacies made most of our outcomes feel preordained. Growing up black in the whitest city in America 2014-03-17T23:00:00Z I feel like so many films and filmmakers do go into these experiences with preordained ideas that they're trying to fulfill. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Yet despite her commitment to the role — and the generally fine supporting performances — this timorous tale sidesteps uncomfortable realities in favor of soothing whimsy and preordained uplift. Review: Boldly Going Toward Independence in ‘Please Stand By’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Publishers have less control over what readers see online than what they encounter in a store, so they funnel more marketing and advertising dollars into titles that are preordained successes. Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z “People wonder why they should vote when the result has been preordained by the legislature that drew the maps this way.” A tour of what may be the nation’s most bizarrely gerrymandered district 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In classic films noirs, the characters rarely have real choices; their paths are riddled with bullets and preordained. | 'Source Code': Don?t Know Who You Are, but Don?t Know Who I Am 2011-03-31T21:49:12Z “Disliking” rather than “hating”, because to inspire such a passionate response as hate would require more than a preordained blockbuster usually offers. Captain America: Civil War – how I was bludgeoned by a blockbuster 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet everything about her “12 Little Spells” tour is preordained. Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Though Ms. McNally, a daughter of Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in the McNally Robinson bookstores run by her parents, her current role was hardly preordained. Up Close: Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan 2011-10-12T22:41:28Z If that crime doesn’t feel preordained, with the grim inevitability that defines tragedy, the drama goes limp, no matter how nicely vocalized. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Willy learns too late that he’s an unwitting participant in a game where winning is the unattainable dream, losing the all but preordained outcome. Broadway's Old New Hit: Death of a Salesman 2012-03-27T20:23:55Z Each year, a handful of movies emerge from the festival circuit with awards-season accolades all but preordained. Movies That Give Us Hope for a Less Homogenous Oscars 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z That the night’s big winner was La La Land, a musical about burying oneself in one’s art, felt preordained. The Golden Globes Send a Muddled Message Post-Trump 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Being with them brings to mind that Black Mirror episode where new partners have preordained expiry dates, and dating is merely a self-serving means of getting over somebody else. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The castration certainly underlines the depravity of the villains, who with each bullet and flick of the blade strengthen the case against them, paving the way for their preordained bloody punishment. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “There’s something beautiful about thinking my love was preordained by the stars,” she said. A New Dating App Asks: Do Our Stars Align? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z His older brother, Jake, sets out to stop him, burdened by conflicted feelings about his preordained path as a coal miner. Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z That the mobilization would occur so quickly around the Actors Fund seems preordained, considering the natural and technical resources of the industry and the lead role celebrities have long played in fundraising. Perspective | This remarkable ‘Hairspray’ video raises the roof. Even better, it raises money for entertainers in need. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Romney did succeed in changing the emphasis of news coverage for what was largely a preordained event; broadcast networks spoke immediately about his decision upon opening coverage of the Senate vote. TV news ready to shift gears after impeachment saga ends 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “The researchers preordained the outcome by forcing people to choose between two categories,” Dr. Patterson said. Studied: When Color Is Reflected in a Janitor?s Outfit - Studied 2011-10-14T23:24:54Z Do we live and die by accident or according to some preordained plan? Francis Spufford’s New Novel Imagines Lives That Might Have Been 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Yet the timing, despite Miranda’s early inclination to get the movie out by streaming last year, seems preordained. ‘For the culture’: The moment arrives for ‘In the Heights’ 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z There is no showrunner and no preordained arc to the 10-episode series, which will develop, relay style, over the course of the spring, with each writer handing off to the next. 10 Playwrights Script a Web Series. Is It Theater? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Predicting that losing his badge was preordained, since he’d been mucking things up from the get-go, Gus probably figures he’s let Molly down one last time. 'Fargo' Recap: Fool's Paradise 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It was all but preordained: Mad Men would secure its place in television history with a final Emmy win, and therefore hold the record for most “Best Drama” victories with five sum Emmys. Why 'Game of Thrones' Won Over 'Mad Men' at the Emmys 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, out here in their respective corner pockets of the American pool table, the results seemed preordained yet somehow beside the point. From a cheerful Texas stadium to an anxious Boston party, here’s what the 2020 starting line felt like. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z What’s more impressive, these characters never seem preordained for significance or for stumbling into pivotal moments. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Some of this was preordained by the producers, but not all of it. Oscar’s White Night 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Their betters keep telling the rabble that survival depends on everyone staying in their “preordained, particular positions.” The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z “In this freedom, there are no preordained questions, no easy answers, no ready definitions,” she writes. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z She has rebelled against her preordained role, but later, in the toymaker's loft, hides in plain sight, in a roomful of dolls. Only God Forgives: Kristin Scott Thomas and other big-screen Barbies from hell 2013-05-30T17:00:01Z In Michael Crichton’s original “Westworld,” the robot revolt was as preordained as the dinosaur rampage in his “Jurassic Park,” an example of chaos theory in action. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z There’s a wobbly feeling that can arise in the gut after bearing witness to an action that seems cosmically preordained. A Truly Perfect Thirty Seconds of Queen 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z So as a mass-culture artifact arriving in the universe, this album’s significance is preordained, which is pretty much the only weird thing about it. Adele’s ‘25’ and our problem with unstoppable sadness 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z While chaos may not be preordained, it’s hard to imagine things proceeding in an orderly way unless Trump wins in a landslide. Perspective | Here’s what the media must do to fend off an election-night disaster 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z It was the sort of thing that seemed magical, preordained. Modern Love: When the Words Don?t Fit - Modern Love 2011-10-27T22:33:23Z Similarly, newcomer and preordained smash Hamilton pulled in over $1.3 million, selling enough premium tickets to push its haul past 111% of its projected maximum gross. Broadway Box Office 7/27: Jim Parsons Is Worth $1 Million, 'Hamilton' Even More 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Murata said she wanted to write from the perspective of someone who defied conventional thinking, particularly in a conformist society where people are expected to fulfill preordained roles. For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Her apocalyptic homecoming seems the preordained conclusion to Ash's dark transformation and Constance's anguished memories. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But his route to being granted the first doctoral degree in American civilization by Harvard and becoming a history professor at Smith College and Harvard was, much like history itself, hardly preordained. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z In India this led to a long series of legal actions against numerous authors and would-be authors, actions the end result of which — conviction and imprisonment — was almost always preordained. Book review: ‘Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature,’ by Robert Darnton Maybe she only held onto the notion of a preordained path in life because she was afraid to be wholly responsible for her own. Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z My decision wasn’t premeditated or preordained, but rather an improvised refusal. It’s My Job to Watch. With George Floyd’s Death, I Had to Look Away. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z I’m the type of traveler who bristles at preordained schedules and obligations, and I actually enjoy planning ski vacations to new destinations. Take the hassle out of your ski vacation with an all-inclusive resort 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Failure is preordained, and “When We Leave” walks a delicate boundary between tragedy and a flimsier, easier form of pathos. | 'When We Leave': When Two Cultures Collide Under One Roof 2011-01-27T23:45:37Z But their chances of establishing a dynasty — one that seemed almost preordained just a few years ago — is increasingly at risk of being slammed shut. Dynasty derailed: Inside the October issues keeping the Dodgers from another World Series 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z If you reach out right now and pick up a pen, was even that insignificant action somehow preordained? Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z “What we made clear is there is no preordained outcome,” Lighty said. New California law takes a step toward single-payer healthcare 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z The theater of this all but feels preordained. A Newsom-DeSantis debate? Bring it | Tom Philp 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z That Boeing B-29 bombers that would carry the bombs had already been assembled on Tinian Island, 1,500 miles south of Japan, and the military decision to use the bombs was preordained. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z None of that, however, mattered in the GOP’s show-trial proceeding, where the verdict was preordained and all that mattered was sating the animal spirit of the Republican base. Column: For Adam Schiff, censure is a gift from House Republicans 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The outcome seems preordained: Republicans blocked many of those same bills last year. Senate Democrats Seek to Highlight G.O.P. Opposition to Abortion Rights 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z In his witness statement, Harry complained that royal family members are cast in preordained roles by the tabloids. Takeaways From Prince Harry’s First Day of Testimony Against U.K. Tabloids 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z But the impact of applying the Chevron doctrine in any particular case is far from preordained. Will a Supreme Court decision in fisheries case tie the hands of all government regulators? 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “There are certain things that have felt preordained in my life, and my children feel to me like the whole reason I’m on this earth,” she explained. Ben Affleck or Brad Pitt? Gwyneth Paltrow dishes on who was better in bed 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Being on this preordained path led to my feeling of choosing motherhood. Our monsters, ourselves: Claire Dederer explains her sympathy for the canceled 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Final action by the state House could come next week, although the outcome is not preordained. Analysis | Ohio Republicans try to change rules to defeat abortion rights amendment 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The problem of nationwide injunctions is magnified by the likelihood that conservatives filing in one- or two-judge court divisions will obtain a preordained result. Column: How right-wing judge-shopping in Texas is erasing Americans' rights everywhere 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The greatest championship teams often speak of things such as fate and destiny, suggesting their immortality was preordained. The worst team in NBA history doesn’t want to be forgotten 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z But while his success might seem preordained, it's easy to forget that reality show contestants and former boyband members are usually consigned to the great pop dumper, never to be seen again. Brit Awards 2023: Harry Styles steals the show with four wins 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z The Church committee was a bipartisan effort to unearth evidence; this has the hallmarks of an enterprise with preordained conclusions and a desire to wreak revenge and inflict political damage. Opinion | A new House ‘Church committee’? More like an exercise in revenge. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The outcome for that playoff game 12 years ago seemed preordained. Seahawks fans leave out the swagger and hope for Beast Quake II 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Williams’ skillful intentional affectlessness renders her characters slippery, difficult to pin down into preordained binaries of good and evil. Review: Killer-doll horror-comedy 'M3GAN' is delightfully deranged 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump has condemned the committee’s investigation as a partisan “kangaroo court” and said its findings were preordained. House Jan. 6 Committee recommends criminal charges against Trump, lawyer Eastman 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z That result was hardly preordained when the year opened. Analysis | Biden vs. Trump? In 2022, there was a clear winner and a clearer loser 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z That Ms. Lake and her supporters would dispute a losing result in the race for governor was in some ways preordained. Kari Lake Claims Her Voters Were Disenfranchised. Her Voters Tell a Different Story. 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z There will be another election in 24 months, but the results are preordained. What my election loss says about our calcified two-party system 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z If the region stands pat, the outcome is preordained: longer, more frequent delays for those who live and work here. Opinion | Decades in the making, the Silver Line reaches its destination 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Luck, by its very nature is not something that can be preordained or controlled. A big win for democracy? Not so fast: This was a welcome reprieve — but that's all 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s very clear they had preordained conclusions they wanted to come to.” G.O.P. Senator’s Report on Covid Origins Suggests Lab Leak, but Offers Little New Evidence 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Realmuto on first base after a single, a strange calmness descended upon Citizens Bank Park, as if the outcome were preordained. Bryce Harper’s blast lifts the rollicking Phillies to the World Series 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s almost preordained that Washington and Cal will have gritty, down-to-the-wire games, the last three of which either went to overtime or were decided by two points or fewer. Huskies’ gritty win at Cal earns UW bowl eligibility. And that’s something to savor. 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Cuomo has accused James of preordaining the findings because she intended to run for governor. Cuomo’s return: Ex-gov launches podcast, laments downfall 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The preordained outcome sets the stage for a dangerous new phase in Russia’s seven-month war, with the Kremlin threatening to throw more troops into the battle and potentially use nuclear weapons. Occupied Ukrainian regions to ask Putin to annex them 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z More often, however, data are represented by isolated points floating in an abstract mathematical space, with no obvious, preordained connections. How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z "The government should therefore not be permitted to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion," they added. Trump lawyers reject Justice Department request on classified documents 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Cantil-Sakauye called the confirmation “preordained” and the hearing a “joyous” one, praising Guerrero as well qualified not only to lead the court, but also to serve as the top administrator of the judicial branch. Patricia Guerrero confirmed as California's next chief justice, will go before voters 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, continuing in the family business wasn’t preordained. Column: Cesar Chavez's grandson wants to introduce his 'Tata' to a new generation 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z That it would be a victory party was preordained - the incumbent governor was running unopposed for the Republican nomination in November. Charlie Crist: Florida Democrats pick challenger to Ron DeSantis 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The guilty verdict, which most experts considered preordained in a legal system in which defendants are rarely acquitted, leaves Griner’s fate subject to diplomatic wrangling between Russia and the U.S. Your Friday Briefing: Russia Sentences Brittney Griner to 9 Years 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “There is no preordained timeline by which the teams must be sold.” Walmart heir acquires Everett’s Flying Heritage Museum from Paul Allen’s estate 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The outcome was preordained, but Democrats opted to hold the vote anyway in an effort to draw a distinction with Republicans on the issue in anticipation of the midterm elections. Bipartisan Abortion-Rights Bill Sets Up a Midterm Debate 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Photo by James Bareham / The Verge This may all seem preordained, but it’s not a guarantee, especially if car companies flub the sales pitch. The future of cars is a subscription nightmare 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “Given the lopsided political makeup of the District, it is impossible to panel a jury that is not entirely comprised of people preordained to find Webster — a presumed Trump supporter — guilty,” Monroe wrote. Judges keeping Capitol riot trials in DC amid bias claims 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z But none of that really matters when the outcomes are preordained. Our Fourth of July nightmare: A republic in the tightening grip of minority rule 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Still, despite the “preordained lunacy” of her life, Bran believes escape is possible — eventually. Review | With ‘Avalon,’ Nell Zink proves again that she’s a fearless satirist 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z There was no cross-examination of witnesses, no counter to the preordained narrative. Opinion | The Jan. 6 committee proved that Biden won, but is that really the point? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Nazar spoke as though the crop shift had been preordained and was not a matter of choice. Green Energy Complicates the Taliban’s New Battle Against Opium 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Multiple senators said their preference was to see if there was a deal to be had before taking another preordained vote on legislation that is doomed to fail in an evenly divided Senate. Senators Grasp for a Bipartisan Gun Deal, Facing Long Odds 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The outcome of Tuesday’s session was all but preordained, given that the state requires only a simple majority to override a veto. Legislature overrides Indiana governor’s veto to bar male-born athletes from girls’ sports 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Although the variants increase risk, they do not preordain kidney disease. Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The appearance of a carefully choreographed presentation with a preordained result detracts from its credibility. Opinion | The Jan. 6 committee proved that Biden won, but is that really the point? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z They provoked and antagonized Russia until Russia filled its preordained role. Russia, the U.S. and the Ukraine war: Dance of death in an age of self-delusion 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Gugino did not testify at the arbitration hearing, in part because he believed that the process was slanted and the outcome preordained. Opinion | A police-friendly arbitrator made an all too common decision in Buffalo 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z One outside observer who had been cautiously optimistic about CNN Plus’s chances last month said Thursday that its demise “was always preordained” by the corporate takeover on its heels. CNN to shutter $100 million streaming service, CNN Plus, after a month 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z With that trophy essentially preordained, they are left to find other targets. Liverpool, Manchester City and a Bar Set Too High 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z And once Taiwan was gone, Washington's position on the Pacific littoral could be effectively broken and a retreat to the mid-Pacific preordained. The geopolitics of the Ukraine war 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z If the outcome wasn’t preordained, it certainly was decided within the first 10 minutes. No. 4 Baylor women rout Oklahoma State in Big 12 tourney 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In the end, the devastating outcome felt preordained. 13 days: Inside Biden’s last-ditch attempts to stop Putin in Ukraine 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In the meantime, though, another Olympic cycle is yielding an outcome that can feel as preordained as any in international sports. A Fast-Moving Sport Slogs Through Two-Nation Dominance 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z By doing so in trials whose results are essentially preordained the government further hopes to cover its policy in a patina of legality. Opinion | Under Cuba’s repressive regime, the show trials never end 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Scottsdale, Arizona-based Axon contends that the agency is biased against the companies or individuals it targets and the results of its "sham" internal enforcement actions are preordained. U.S. Supreme Court takes up Taser maker's battle with FTC 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Though the effort seemed preordained to fail, Mr. Schumer has made it clear that he will still pursue a vote and a rules change. Senate Opens Voting Rights Debate, With Legislative Defeat Looming 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The Senate will take up the vote this week, with the outcome seemingly preordained. Analysis | As Biden ends his first year amid many challenges, is there a second act ahead? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Corey Glave, an attorney for Torres, said that the decision to fire the deputy had been “preordained” by sheriff’s administrators before a thorough investigation was conducted and that he had been used as a scapegoat. The O.C. sheriff fired a deputy for tossing evidence. Now he has to be reinstated 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “We take no position today because the outcome is preordained.” Maryland lawmakers take up gerrymandering, veto overrides 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The most remarkable aspect of the game is that neither the precise order of these events nor their exact form is preordained. Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It is a phrase, often attributed to the French philosopher Auguste Comte, that suggests much of the future is preordained by the very simple trend lines of populations. What Will the World Be Like in 20 Years? 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z And there is Harper, who arrived on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a teenager, preordained with expectations so tied to his name that he never really could exceed them. Angels’ Shohei Ohtani wins AL MVP award; Phillies’ Bryce Harper captures NL honor 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Sometimes prophecies and predictions must be forced into being; outcomes are never preordained. "Critical race theory" is a fairytale — but America's monsters are real 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z That the team with the fewest wins of any playoff team this year would ultimately win the National League pennant was hardly preordained. The Braves, survivors all season long, stun the mighty Dodgers to advance to the World Series 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Serge Thill played 14 games for Luxembourg in the 1990s, back when the team seemed preordained to lose every match. For Thill, taking Luxembourg to a World Cup is family affair 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In one chapter, the book explored the possibility that Mr. Trump could lose, but it came down squarely on the side of a preordained victory. The Trump Prophets Regroup 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z But that result was, in many respects, preordained by arithmetic. Opinion | California’s recall election confirmed everything that is wrong with today’s Republican Party 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z And in authoritarian Russia, where election outcomes are effectively preordained, would it make a difference? Activists in Russia Push to Make Domestic Violence a Voting Issue 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z That de-normalizing lens, fortified by perspectives from Afghans, provides an invaluable service, recalling many of the Bush White House’s human rights scandals while reminding us that none of them were preordained. Perspective | What more is there to say about 9/11 on its 20th anniversary? TV specials grapple with that very issue. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Baker said that something about this job, this time, feels preordained. Dusty Baker feels the weight of being loved and hated by baseball 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z "But this crime was not borne of desperation, nor was it preordained by his upbringing," the government's sentencing memo reads. Inside a doomed migrant boat journey from Mexico to California 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Yet the transportation secretary job was never preordained. ‘Outsider’ Buttigieg plays a skillful inside game, positioning himself for the future 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z The audience knows that the answers to those questions are mostly preordained. Review | The movie ‘CODA’ reminds us that cliches sometimes work — and brilliantly 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing scientific or preordained about working eight hours a day, five days a week. Opinion | 8 Hours a Day, 5 Days a Week Is Not Working for Us 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Based on the inspector’s observation, Ms. Espinosa said, the next step — a death sentence — was preordained. To Kill a Swan? Dispute Over a Bird’s Fate Ends With a Twist. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z That was largely preordained by the Trump administration’s failure to hold the Taliban accountable to the terms of a deal signed in February 2020, administration officials said. Biden Sends Dueling Messages on Afghanistan 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z That was largely preordained by the Trump administration’s failure to hold the Taliban accountable to the terms of the deal signed in February 2020, administration officials said. Biden Says Afghans Must ‘Decide Their Future’ as U.S. Troops Withdraw 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In some sense, her interplanetary destiny seemed preordained even before she was born: her father hails from a rural community in Pennsylvania named Venus. Is NASA about to Lift the ‘Venus Curse?’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Republicans behave as if they possess secret knowledge that predicts or preordains their future victories. Republican attacks on democracy are a national emergency. Will Democrats ever fight back? 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z No spoilers here, but “Dream Horse” follows a route as preordained as the steeplechase ovals its title character runs, around and around and around. Review | Toni Collette elevates the formulaic but feel-good racehorse movie ‘Dream Horse’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Unlike most human parents, these winged insects will never have the opportunity to know for sure if their young make it through the preordained stages of their lives. Billions of cicadas are about to take to the skies. Here's what to expect 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z His fate seemed so preordained that colleagues wondered when rather than whether he’d resign. The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Neither the outcome of the putsch nor the fate of the resistance is preordained. Three Months After Coup, Myanmar Returns to the ‘Bad Old Days’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “None of that is preordained. None of it is absolutely inevitable,” Gen. Milley told Pentagon reporters Thursday at a briefing alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Gen. Mark Milley: Taliban victory after U.S. troop pullout is not ‘preordained’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But the deepest source of anger is a feeling shared by many Jews that the court's ruling was preordained. Sarah Halimi: How killer on drugs escaped French trial for anti-Semitic murder 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Though Cheney grew up in proximity to power, it wasn’t preordained that she would seek it herself. Liz Cheney vs. MAGA 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Defence lawyer Mark Geragos described the outcome as a "preordained conclusion" on US network Fox. George Floyd: When will Derek Chauvin be sentenced? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z US defence lawyer Mark Geragos called the conviction a "preordained conclusion", telling Fox News that "given the tsunami of coverage and public consternation, the best he ever could have hoped for was a hung jury". George Floyd: Chauvin conviction a giant step forward, says Biden 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z One expert called the conviction a "preordained conclusion." After Derek Chauvin conviction, longtime defense attorneys sound off: 'A preordained conclusion' 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z New York had exerted its timeless pull on them; it was there that they could trade hometown destinies for big-city dreams, the preordained for the possible. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But given its proximity to the District, its current identity as a sprawling Washington suburb was perhaps preordained. Once slated to become an airport, Burke, Va., took off as a family-friendly suburb 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z There is a perception that something seemed frustratingly preordained last week when the charges to be filed against South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg in connection with a fatal car accident last September were announced. Editorial Roundup: South Dakota 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z But the outcome was preordained: Republicans in both the House and Senate repeatedly and publicly signaled weeks ago that they were going to acquit Donald Trump no matter what the evidence against him. Republican Party is now a terrorist organization — and none of this is a surprise 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z "And everybody knew if there wasn't a conviction, all heck was going to break loose. It was the preordained conclusion." After Derek Chauvin conviction, longtime defense attorneys sound off: 'A preordained conclusion' 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “The result of this trial is preordained,” said Cruz, who had mounted an effort to contest the electoral college results on Jan. 6. Republican senators show emotion, but little evidence of changed minds 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “The result of this trial is preordained,” Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said flatly. Senate Agrees Trial Is Constitutional, as Trump Consolidates Votes for an Acquittal 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z “The result of this trial is preordained. President Trump will be acquitted,” Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said Tuesday. William Belknap’s impeachment trial looms large over Donald Trump case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The outcome may seem preordained in the unprecedented second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Analysis: Trump’s Senate trial matters regardless of outcome 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Manning going into the hall was all but preordained. Game changers: Manning, Woodson, Megatron headed to Hall 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The Senate hasn’t even begun Mr. Trump’s second impeachment trial and an acquittal already appears preordained. Trump’s Shadow Lingers Over Divided G.O.P. 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z “The timing of the University’s actions and decision appear to be preordained and more about financial convenience and expediency than a fair and complete factual determination by the University,” Lyons wrote. Tennessee Fires Football Coach Amid Investigation 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Somehow, it felt like the preordained coda of a presidency that repeatedly pressed all limits and frayed the bonds of the body politic. A Preordained Coda to a Presidency 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z "I firmly believe your soul leaves this planet when it's been preordained to," she said. Losing a child to cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z But if Bryant’s path to stardom felt preordained, it was rocky. Kobe Bryant's death shocked L.A. and the world amid ominous start to 2020 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z They all proclaimed their innocence during the trial, sometimes in vehement outbursts suggesting the outcome of the proceedings was preordained. Court Finds 14 Guilty of Aiding Charlie Hebdo and Anti-Semitic Attacks 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z An examination of Mr. de Blasio’s decision shows that, for all the apparent last-minute suspense, it actually was all but preordained. How de Blasio Backed Himself Into a Corner on Closing Schools 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The paper might as well rehire the con artist Jayson Blair to sit in his apartment and snort coke while filing fictional variants on the preordained narrative the paper demands. The ruling elite's war on truth: America's leaders are increasingly disconnected from reality 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It was not preordained that the United States would have a shortage. Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z From there, he built a résumé that made his ascendance at Ebenezer seem preordained. Can Raphael Warnock Go From the Pulpit to the Senate? 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “His myriad misleading statements, coupled with his publicly stated preordained opinions about this subject matter, convinces the court that Mr von Spakovsky testified as an advocate and not as an objective expert witness.” 'Just like propaganda': the three men enabling Trump's voter fraud lies 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The show’s ending is preordained: “All the Republicans will vote yes; all the Democrats will vote no,” Graham said. Perspective | Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has seven kids. And don’t you dare forget it. 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z A life in fashion, it seems, was preordained for young Oldham. Clutch your pearls! This man is turning the jewels into gender-neutral, playful accessories 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Even with all the horrible things that have happened in such a short time this year, I will tell you that the outcome of this moment is not preordained. Tim Wise on Trump, RBG and why we must fight to save multiracial democracy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The Lakers are the top seed whose presence here felt preordained; the Nuggets are the underdogs who cheated death numerous times to ruin the anticipated all-L.A. showdown. Analysis | Instead of Battle for L.A., Lakers get cardiac Nuggets in the West finals 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z All others beware: The route of the film, like Lucy’s drive home, is preordained — a Google Maps version of a plot, with absolutely no surprises. Review | Two 20-somethings meet cute — way too cute — in ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z One that judges bodies of color as preordained sources of disease and menace—dangerous even down to their DNA. COVID19's Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Harris’s presence on stage Wednesday was not preordained. Kamala Harris accepts vice-presidential nomination on historic night 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z It is a less riveting narrative, in part because the outcome seemed so preordained. Review | Trump tried to shut him down, but Robert Mueller was his own worst enemy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “Amazon’s success was anything but preordained,” he said before noting that the company had invested $270bn in the US over the last decade and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. 'Too much power': Congress grills top tech CEOs in combative antitrust hearing 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “In its zeal, BLM simply engineered a process to ensure a preordained conclusion,” the judge wrote. Trump says Biden threatens ‘our very way of life’ with plan for avalanche of red tape 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z This bigotry endangers the people who are thought to look dangerous, while waving through threats that do not fit the preordained description of a hazard—the European traveler, the international businessman, the uniformed cop. COVID19's Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Bug spends much of the novel trying to outrun the fate preordained by his father — and to protect his own sons against the same. In a groundbreaking crime novel, Black lives matter in the rural South 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z He traveled the country as the Trump campaign’s national-security chairman, forming what felt like a preordained relationship with the man he was certain God planned to use for good. The Fall of Jeff Sessions, and What Came After 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z They’ve shared the preordained “amplifying” social media post that just reads “This,” followed by a link to something profound from a black voice. Perspective | When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Stempel’s dominant — and preordained — run on the show lasted from Oct. Herbert Stempel, whistleblower in quiz show scandals, dies at 93 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Stempel’s dominant – and preordained – run on the show lasted from Oct. Herbert Stempel, whistleblower in quiz show scandals, dies at 93 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Republicans always ruthlessly played to win their preordained outcome. Opinion | Joe Says It Ain’t So 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z His striking physical resemblance to his grandfather, channeling his clothing, gait and corpulence, secured his place as the latest iteration of the country’s preordained leadership. Rumors over Kim Jong Un's health make one thing clear: North Korea's cult of personality endures 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The White Buffalo is Jake Smith’s stage and recording name, one of the most accurate monikers in the business, seemingly preordained. Review: The White Buffalo’s rumble fills songs with emotion 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z It was therefore perhaps preordained that, barring a political sensation, he will likely have to fight for re-election against Obama’s former right-hand man. Stage set for Biden v Trump as Democrats seek return to Obama era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “We’ve become more flexible with each other, and things are far less preordained,” Jack explains. Our eureka moment: what I learned from swapping breadwinning roles with my husband 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z “Though this leaves less breathing room between an expanding economy and a contracting one, a recession in 2020, predicted by many in 2018, or even in 2021 is not preordained,” the report said. The days of fast growth are ending for L.A. and California, report says 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The roughly half of the country that wanted Trump to be impeached and begone knew his acquittal was all but preordained in the Republican-controlled Senate. Impeachment loses its constitutional gravity in Trump case 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The stance by the two Democrats was perhaps as undramatic as the outcome of the impeachment trial itself, which had been preordained by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to end with an acquittal. Washington Sens. Murray and Cantwell vote to convict Trump on impeachment articles 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z This is doubly true now, as Republicans force Trump’s preordained acquittal, and Democrats decide who will lead them against Trump. Opinion | Is Bernie Sanders really happening? 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z And with the final impeachment vote requiring a two-thirds majority to convict the president, the outcome seems preordained. ‘A massive historical story’: Trump’s impending acquittal could have profound ramifications for future presidents 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z In pressing inexorably toward their preordained vote of acquittal, Senate Republicans made it clear they see their fortunes and futures intertwined with the president’s, and are not willing to rock the 2020 boat. Once Skeptical, Senate Republicans Are All In on Trump 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic. Infinite scroll: life under Instagram 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The thought of the trial continuing, with no end in sight and the result preordained, incites despair in many of them. To Senate Republicans, a Vote for Witnesses Is a Vote for Trouble 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z That Bolton — a conservative hawk serving a generally non-interventionalist president — would turn on Trump and his team seemed all but preordained, more a question of when than if. All the president’s disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z For a sportsman whose future seemed preordained from his earliest days, it’s a pity the outcomes of his promising second act will be left unknown. Kobe Bryant ranked at the very top in the pantheon of US sports megastars 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z If the race turns into a blowout, it’s better to vote early in the calendar, before the result is preordained. Washington’s presidential primary is no longer a meaningless ‘beauty contest’; this one really counts 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Nearly a century later, the Republican defence appears to be based on blind faith in Trump and the verdict on his conduct is preordained. Case for impeachment fails to disturb McConnell's sweet dreams of acquittal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The most unpredictable, too, partly because the outcome doesn’t seem preordained, as it appears to be in most of Europe’s major leagues. Domestic league domination in Europe is a problem that Sevilla works around 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The impeachment circus, which will culminate in a preordained, choreographed and televised show in the Senate, coincided with The Washington Post’s release of what is being called the Afghanistan Papers. The impeachment's moral hypocrisy 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Is the oath meaningless blather glossing over the certainty of a preordained conclusion — or can it serve some useful function notwithstanding that reality? Opinion | What does ‘impartial justice’ mean to the Senate? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “If you have a preordained outcome that is negative to your actions, why walk into it?” he said. Trump Impeachment Trial in Doubt as Democrats Weigh Withholding Articles 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z As in many such programs, the drama was largely scripted and the outcome was preordained. House impeaches Trump: part history, part reality show 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The outcome of this particular battle is preordained. Opinion | Partisan impeachment will only add fire to our ideological warfare 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The outcome of the political struggle was largely preordained: House Democrats voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday night, but the Republican-controlled Senate probably will vote to acquit him early next year. Impeachment split screen: As House votes in Washington, Trump rallies in Michigan 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Congress is barreling toward a House impeachment vote and Senate trial where the results seem preordained. Analysis: In a polarized era, will impeachment become a new normal? 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But regardless of their sleazy tactics, the outcome of the whole thing is preordained. Trump will survive impeachment, for now: But make no mistake, this hurts him 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The outcome looks preordained by our politics: The Democratic House will impeach; the Republican Senate will acquit. Opinion | The entire country should be grateful for Fiona Hill’s commitment to the truth 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Quoting a precedent from the federal appeals court in Washington, Judge Bates said that an agency’s subsequent explanation “must be more than a barren exercise of supplying reasons to support a preordained result.” Opinion | Can the Supreme Court Save Itself? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Another: A sense that the outcome—House impeaching, Senate acquitting—is preordained. Trump teases impeachment testimony amid scandal fatigue 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z They claim an environmental review was rushed, incomplete and preordained and that it presents only a fraction of the long-term damage that will occur if drilling rigs are allowed into what’s now a wilderness area. Critics gear up for response to lease sale in Arctic refuge 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Not only does Polachek not want to know what other people think she should be doing, she doesn’t want to preordain it herself. Caroline Polachek: 'Women in music are taught that once you’re 35, you’ve expired' 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z With five justices who are solidly in favor of gun owners’ rights, the outcome would seem nearly preordained. Opinion | Watch Out, America — The Supreme Court Is Back in Session 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z If his partnership with Man Ray was fortuitous rather than planned back then, it now seems preordained. William Wegman: ‘Weimaraners are serious and try hard. They’re spooky and shadowy’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Maybe all of this was preordained anyway, given the recklessness of the current occupant of the White House. Opinion | Impeachment will define the 2020 election 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Why waste time on speeches and testimony when the outcome is preordained? A Summer of Unprecedented Brutality in Moscow 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes — often — the stories we tell are not neat, and rounded, and the journeys they describe are not direct and preordained. At Arsenal, Rewriting the Story May Take a Bit More Time 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z We’re locked into a routine, both the performer and the critical corps professionally obligated to take his bait, his transgressions every bit as preordained as our objections to them. Shock and bore: how Dave Chappelle lost his comic touch 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Trump also said that he is the "Chosen One" sent by god or preordained by Fate to rule. Trump's words of warning: "I always find a way to win." Take him seriously 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z "But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die." Parents fail to free sons over daughter's murder 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Nessel urges that the commission consider affordability in all recommendations and not preordain particular outcomes without the appropriate review and examination by interested parties in cases before the commission. Michigan AG: Consider affordability during energy assessment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The answers that the commission may propose appear preordained by its makeup. Mike Pompeo’s Faith-Based Attempt to Narrowly Redefine Human Rights 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Durant usurping James as the consensus top player long felt preordained. Analysis | At stake in the NBA Finals: The title of ‘best player in the league’ 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Everyone, in Ohio and the nation, suffers when outcomes are preordained and engineered to the extremes. Opinion | My district was gerrymandered. The damage is easy to measure. 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z In the sliver of time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Lehman Brothers, it seemed like markets embedded in liberal democracies were the preordained future. Capitalism is failing workers. People want a job with a decent wage – why is that so hard? | Richard Reeves 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z She said she supports Congress investigating Mueller’s findings “based on evidence” and without a “preordained conclusion.” Hillary Clinton: Anyone other than Trump would have been indicted for obstruction 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Unlike the 2018 NFL Draft, when the Cleveland Browns kept us guessing until practically draft night, the first overall pick seems to have been preordained for months. NFL mock draft: Cardinals face conundrum 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Initial reaction was perhaps preordained by a four-page summary released by Barr last month and offered a textbook example of Washington’s bitter partisanship and polarization. Trump claims 'game over' on Mueller report as Democrats say game on 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z D. Bruce Poole, a former state delegate and former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party, called Busch’s ascension to one of the most powerful positions in Maryland politics almost “preordained.” Hundreds bid final farewell to Maryland’s Michael E. Busch, ‘speaker for us all’ 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z That future, however, is not preordained, for Americans overwhelmingly want stronger privacy protections. Opinion | How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Park concluded that there is no preordained right to victory on the battlefield. Navy cybersecurity faulted 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z And I’m just raising the fact that there are considerations there, which is that you are then limiting political discourse to a set of preordained voices and outlets and publications. YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Everything in the drama was building up to a preordained conclusion that could not be altered ,even if the internal logic of the narrative did not support it. Is the Trump-Russia political drama over? Not at all: Bill Barr's ending fell flat 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It's been two years since DJ's preordained Masters win went spiraling down a staircase. Masters 2019: Rory's Grand Slam, Tiger's 15th major and other early storylines we're watching en route to Augusta National - Golf Digest 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In order to do so, he engaged in “a cynical search to find some reason, any reason, or an agency request to justify that preordained result.” Opinion | Ross’s census sabotage was ‘arbitrary,’ ‘capricious’ and ‘cynical,’ says a federal judge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z And the worst thing is, we accept that as somehow preordained, beyond our capacity to fix. An A+ in amorality 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z "What ensued was a cynical search to find some reason, any reason, or an agency request to justify that preordained result," the judge said. Census question on citizenship ruled illegal by 2nd judge 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The rise of T. rex is a lesson in how evolution works, Dr. Brusatte said: with no preordained plan. Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Once and Future King 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Standing Rock attorney Jan Hasselman said the tribe believes the February memo shows that the Corps didn’t seriously seek tribal input and that its findings were preordained. APNewsBreak: Tribe says Corps’ pipeline findings preordained 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Take for instance Saturday’s 64-55 win over Colorado, which felt inevitable, preordained and uneventful even. Three impressions from Washington’s latest win: Matisse Thybulle closing in on Pac-12’s all-time defensive greats 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Characters sleepwalk through an existence that leads them to a preordained fate. How Colombia’s ‘Birds of Passage’ directors flip the script on the typical narco movie 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z As the Patriots neared the Chiefs’ goal line, a winning touchdown and a ninth Patriots Super Bowl appearance this century seemed preordained. New England Patriots Down Kansas City Chiefs in Overtime for Super Bowl Berth 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z A seemingly preordained slate of candidates, overwhelmingly conservative, was elected to leadership positions, while the minority liberal contingent voted frequently as a bloc to sustain filibusters. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The success they’ve achieved was hardly preordained, and it wouldn’t have happened without Verhelst, a figure on Antwerp’s creative scene long known for production design and fashion exhibitions at museums. Focused on Sustainability, Graanmarkt 13 is a Go-To for Tastemakers 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It essentially robs millions of voters of their voice, since the outcome is preordained. North Carolina editorial roundup 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In September, 2017, it filed for bankruptcy—an outcome that was practically preordained, and which led to the loss of more than thirty thousand jobs. Can the Deal to Compensate Toys R Us Workers Be Replicated at Sears? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But this warm reception was far from preordained. If you go vegan, can you take your meat-loving community with you? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z They called the turnabout “particularly puzzling” and said the record of events suggests that approving the project “was a preordained decision.” Federal appeals court rejects permits for Atlantic Coast Pipeline 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “Legacy political strategists will say that the structural impediments of ballot and presidential debate access, the overwhelming advantages of the two parties’ fundraising and voter turnout operations preordain failure. Inside the Beltway: Biden/Romney 2020: It could happen 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The last Russian presidential election — theirs, not ours — was less preordained than the CFP. Perspective | The College Football Playoff is more rigged than Wall Street and as scripted as WWE 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z To make the West happy, the Ukrainian parliament has enacted laws to preordain the outcomes of certain high-profile trials, allowing the abuse of defendants by senior prosecutors toward defendants and the bribing of witnesses. The struggle for the rule of law in Ukraine 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In her report, DeVos criticized the previous administration's decision, saying that it “ignored or mischaracterized significant evidence,” and that it “suffered from insufficient evidence, circular reasoning, and a desire to achieve a preordained result.” Betsy DeVos revives for-profit-college accrediting group that approved Corinthian and ITT Tech 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “It can be frustrating to look back and see the result was preordained, but in this case it may have been preordained,” said longtime GOP strategist Tucker Martin. How GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock lost her Northern Va. district 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The Trump administration and its global ilk hold an implied understanding of gendered behaviors as immutably tied to biological sex – naturally preordained, fated, and therefore correct. Trump's laws cannot erase trans people, but it can allow others to hurt them | Moira Donegan 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Democrats, meanwhile, condemned the investigation, the results of which were made available to senators on Thursday, as preordained and dictated by the White House. Senate votes 51-49 to send Kavanaugh nomination to final floor vote 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The episode feels like just another link in the chain of difficulties for which Lara seems preordained. Review | ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’ is good at what it does, but seems awfully familiar 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z She implies that she was somehow preordained for the prominent history-shaping role she currently occupies. Review | Stormy Daniels’s memoir: Funny, vulgar, brash and believable 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The intelligence community was manipulated into analyses that served a preordained, misguided purpose. Opinion | Are liars really worse than simpletons? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z By following a sequence of a hundred or so programmed steps, each robot can construct a preordained structure: a wall, a staircase, or a four-sided building. What Termites Can Teach Us 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “They squashed viewpoints from scientists that they didn’t agree with or that didn’t line up with the preordained conclusion.” ‘Shocked and disappointed’: Pair of researchers say they felt pressed by federal wildlife officials to bury risk on endangered beetle 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z If God is in charge and everything is preordained, then Trump is just part of God’s plan. Review | Is it God’s plan for Mike Pence to be president? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z That was the problem, he wrote in 1999, frustrated that his life seemed “preordained” to fall into the inescapable orbit of Navy service. John McCain couldn’t escape the pull of the Naval Academy. Now he’ll be buried there. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Strike-authorization votes are a standard pressure tactic and do not preordain a walkout, but district officials appear to be worried. Mayor Eric Garcetti offers to mediate between L.A. school district and teachers union in contract talks 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Much twentieth-century modernist music sounded like—and actually was—the outcome of a preordained process, the working out of a utopian or a mathematical idea. The Sounds of Music in the Twenty-first Century 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z But in the end, war erupted — not because it was preordained, Platt argues, but because of factors that could have been avoided. Review | What a previous trade war with China might teach us 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It was a preordained result, which surprised nobody and firmly established Cambodia as a de facto one-party state. Cambodia: Hun Sen re-elected in landslide victory after brutal crackdown 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z The electoral college effectively preordains the outcome of presidential elections in all but a dozen or so “battleground” states. Opinion | Actually, there are alternatives to Trump or Democrats 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z "There are two big takeaways from these documents — the first is that they show with absolute clarity that the outcome of the monuments review was preordained," Weiss said. Trump officials drafted plans to eliminate marine monument off New England 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Though it doesn't happen immediately, because these two are the best-looking folks in the film, their hookup is preordained. Review: Keanu Reeves is stranded in the low-energy romantic thrills of 'Siberia' 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “We never thought the judiciary would be as conservative or corporate. This was an expansion that was not preordained by doctrine. It was preordained by the political philosophies of judges.” How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z It is tempting to see this as another milestone on the way to the yuan’s preordained supremacy. Why foreigners are keen buyers of Chinese government bonds 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It was never preordained he would be the one to accelerate the isolated nation’s nuclear weapons program, and force the US president, Donald Trump, to sit down for a meeting of equals. Kim Jong-un: The story of the boy dictator who bested the US president 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But it’s just not true that such over-the-top success was preordained. Vegas Golden Knights’ stunning success should not raise expectations for Seattle’s expected NHL team 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But soon enough, drabness and dull plot mechanics set in, as the film’s — what else? — ragtag team of rule-breakers rushes to hit yet another preordained mark. Review | The young Han Solo movie is here. And let’s just say a robot is the best part. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z All the key roles were so well cast it now seems almost preordained. ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ a Disquieting Masterpiece, Turns 50 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Long before Flynn was indicted, two of the lawyers said, it was all but a preordained conclusion in Washington legal circles that he would face charges and, potentially, a long prison sentence. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty. Now his supporters are trying to exonerate him. 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Hearing more whoops of delight from the audience, I thought about a vision of the near future in which half the human race will converse in preordained cliches. Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless | John Harris 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes, a person’s profession seems preordained, as is the case with one of Broadway’s most prolific poster artists, Frank “Fraver” Verlizzo. One of Broadway's most prolific poster artists puts five decades of work into a single book 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z By the middle of Monday, his visit seemed a last gasp: He was told that the decision was all but preordained, officials said. Unswayed by Allies, Trump Is Expected to Leave Iran Deal, Diplomats Say 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “There were times in my youth when I harbored a secret resentment that my life’s course seemed so preordained,” he wrote in his 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers.” John McCain rebelled at the Naval Academy — and as a POW — long before he was a Senate maverick 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z With or without a god in the picture, plenty of people believe it’s a sin to fight the universe’s “preordained” plan for humanity, where men dominate women and white people run society. The Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t quite get modern American misogyny 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Without a "preordained outcome," Hill said, the summit could backfire. Scrambling behind the scenes and lowering expectations: Preparing for Trump to meet Kim 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The path towards autonomy is far from preordained. People must retain control of autonomous vehicles 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Given her family connections to the sport, she knows it was almost preordained that she would play basketball. Kelsey Mitchell, a Coach’s Daughter, Is Chasing Records and Wins 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z His success in 2018 is almost preordained, and it aligns with the simple physics unique to Day’s career. We're buying this former World No. 1's stock before the Masters and here's why - Golf Digest 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Political outcomes, even ones that may seem inevitable or even historically preordained, are always less clear in advance than they are in retrospect. Leaders like Zuma may be doomed. But they fight every inch of the way | Martin Kettle 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z But whether through happenstance or divine intervention, these phenoms found their calling and fulfilled a seemingly preordained destiny. 'It's a little bit cosmic': Nathan Chen and the inevitability of greatness 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He disliked being called a pacifist or a “peace researcher,” telling Progressive magazine such descriptions were “quite naive” and that conflict was often preordained and necessary. Gene Sharp, scholar who provided intellectual underpinnings to international peace movement, dies at 90 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z She later told James Baldwin that her emerging relationship came to feel “somehow, preordained.” 'I am not a symbol, I am an activist': the untold story of Coretta Scott King 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Although the Kremlin is fighting this outcome with additional pipeline construction and other initiatives, it seems the shift is preordained. U.S. as world’s largest energy producer will shape global markets 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z They are not the Mannings, not a gilded lineage whose professional successes feel preordained. A Brooklyn Family’s Long March Finally Reaches the N.B.A. 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The problem for the Kremlin is how to generate excitement in a lifeless campaign with a preordained outcome and a candidate who finds campaigning distasteful and the idea of a presidential debate unthinkable. Victory Assured, Putin Seeks Turnout as Final Affirmation 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But for all the inequities, there is no script in sports, nothing preordained, and after hearing about and thinking about the number 60 for months, the Bulldogs used it for fuel. The Year in Sports 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s easy to romanticize Martinez as a chosen one whose success was preordained. From protests to cupcakes: These are our best stories from 2017, and our most-read 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Smith will have a chance to prove herself, but nothing is preordained. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z But what is also not acceptable, is the FCC’s refusal to cooperate with state attorney general investigations, or allow evidence in the record that would undercut a preordained outcome. Read the dissenting statements of the Democratic FCC commissioners slamming net neutrality repeal 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “Any fiscal plan that preordains political pressure on budget cuts for human services and social services will really hurt people of color,” Morial said. Analysis | Five ways the GOP tax plans help wealthy whites and hurt minorities 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The night felt like June or July or August, those glorious months when the Dodgers ruled the sport like preordained kings. Dodgers regain their summer swagger in Game 1 victory over the Diamondbacks 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z In either case, whites are preordained to walk that special path. Opinion | How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “Whether it’s a Democratic district or a Republican district . . . the result is preordained in most of the districts.” Supreme Court takes up Wisconsin as test in partisan gerrymandering claims 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Gardner noted that Kobach said at the previous meeting there should be no “preordained” or “preconceived” notions about what the group will conclude after studying data and hearing from experts. Trump voter commission leader comes under fire as panel meets in New Hampshire 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Nor do you meddle in a vote where the outcome appears preordained. As Germans prepare to vote, a mystery grows: Where are the Russians? 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z His short political career demonstrates a total lack of ability to form any independent opinion not preordained by the conservative billionaire-funded think-tanks that promote the decrepit political ideology to which he adheres. Is NASA a science agency or a giant subsidy for aerospace corporations? 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Opinions and pundits rule the airwaves with “news anchors” who usually lead the guests with questions that have preordained answers, thereby attempting to sway the audience to the agenda of the hosts and networks. Calendar letters: Trump and the state of news today 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s easy to romanticize Martinez, whose number will be retired Saturday, as a chosen one whose success was preordained. Edgar Martinez’s improbable path to becoming a Mariners icon 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In the early weeks of April, it was preordained that Johnson would win a major in 2017; the only question was how many. 2017 PGA Championship: Dustin Johnson—remember him?—seeking to avenge missed opportunities - Golf Digest 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z History is neither preordained truth, nor is it a prepackaged commodity. US history is a Pandora's box. There has never been a better moment to open it | Yuliya Komska 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z 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. Opinion | The Trump election commission exists solely to justify a Trump lie 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z In Reeves’ mind, the character’s death was almost biblically preordained. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' director Matt Reeves on that emotional ending — and where the story goes now 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s easy to romanticize Martinez, with that sweet swing still emblazoned in the minds of Mariner fans, as a chosen one whose success was preordained. Edgar Martinez’s improbable path to becoming a Mariners icon 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In fact, for people who understand the transitory nature of this place, what happens next seems almost preordained. New Island Appears Off U.S. Coast 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z One upside of the current volatility in world affairs is that nothing is fixed, nothing is preordained. Can Brexit be stopped? The answer is in our hands | Jonathan Freedland 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z In a sense, the surprising deal is preordained by his mission to construct the everything store: A company that delivers everything to everyone, at the best possible price and within the shortest amount of time. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ grocery ‘Waterloo’ is now his biggest opportunity 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z And their story line is preordained: A forced confession, a show trial, a sentence to years of hard labor with little chance of appeal. 3 Americans Remain Imprisoned in North Korea 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The difference, he added, is that American elections are generally fair and so, “We are much more vulnerable to such manipulation than is Russia,” where results are often preordained. Analysis: Will fight to halt Russian meddling get lost in Trump vs. Comey spat? 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Technology is not preordained to save us from inequality, but without a free, fair and open network with which to rally and marshall the forces of justice, the battle is lost before it’s even joined. Technology is making the world more unequal. Only technology can fix this 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A third consecutive NBA Finals matchup between the Cavaliers and Warriors was practically preordained entering the season. LeBron James vs. Kevin Durant? Yes please 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “There was nothing in the judge’s order that preordains the outcome,” Epstein said. Prosecutors reverse course and file charges against engineer in 2015 Amtrak crash 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But now he is fighting for history and legacy, and one of those battles is against another figure whose ascent is even more bizarre, yet perhaps no less personally preordained. Review | Before Michelle, Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. Then politics got in the way. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The question becomes whether that means his fate is preordained by virtue of his blood, his faith, or his skin color. Kendrick Lamar’s Holy Spirit 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In that respect, the attack on Thursday night was almost preordained. Striking at Assad Carries Opportunities, and Risks, for Trump 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z As a trustee for Rupert Murdoch’s two young daughters, your own silence was preordained, but nonetheless disappointing. Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “It becomes instead one of how it falls according to various preordained privilege categories.” Review | The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Like other Orthodox residents here, he believes their presence is preordained. Inside the contentious Israeli settlement that counts Trump as a donor 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z There was an even bigger logic problem: Anyone seeking to steal the election would have done so in the handful of states that determined the outcome, not in two where the results were preordained. Trump versus California: The feud turns from rhetorical to real 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Much like his swearing-in on 20 January 2009, the schedule on Obama’s final day in office is largely preordained by a number of traditions. Obama's last hours as president: a cup of coffee, farewells and a letter to Trump 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z UConn’s admirers salute the team for setting a high bar, while critics lament the effect on the growth of the sport when the national title essentially appears preordained every year. Washington Women Paint a Target on Those Other Huskies 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Somber, well-judged and admirably ambitious, “Live by Night” nonetheless falls short of being essential, its familiar moving parts heading predictably toward a conclusion that feels mechanical and preordained. With ‘Live by Night,’ Ben Affleck makes an un-thrilling period crime thriller 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Allen Ivanov’s sentence was preordained after he pleaded guilty last month to three counts of aggravated first-degree murder as well as two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Allen Ivanov to get life in prison for killing 3 classmates at Mukilteo party 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The subtext is that it has two stars at its center who can convey hunger and avidity at one moment and a shiny sense of preordained fame and fortune the next. In ‘La La Land,’ Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling pay homage to the musical 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In fact, given the 2007-2008 financial crisis, they were virtually preordained. The clock is ticking on a global shift to the far-right 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Dan Fogler must believe in magic, because landing his latest role in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” felt to him like it had been preordained by the cosmos. Dan Fogler on finding the 'sad clown' in the new 'Harry Potter' world of 'Fantastic Beasts' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Nothing about this process is preordained, of course. Is the Slide Into Pure Identity Politics Inevitable? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The sentence was preordained after Allen Ivanov pleaded guilty last month to three counts of aggravated first-degree murder. Allen Ivanov to get life in prison for killing 3 classmates at Mukilteo party 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z They voted in overwhelming numbers, not for Trump, so much as against what they perceive to be the preordained establishment candidate being crammed down their throats. Donald Trump’s victory is a worker uprising: Labor and the left now need to fight like hell 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Yes, events followed a preordained sequence on the stage: Napoleon’s army advanced; the Russians retreated; flames surged across the skyline. Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The extraordinary overweighting of Mr. Trump’s ham-handed and self-defeating remark will only feed the widespread public impression that the media are trying to preordain the election’s outcome. The Media Do Scarlett 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But the answer is not to start a new process whose outcome is preordained. It’s not the ‘locker-room’ talk. It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And there’s no preordained decree that this can’t be the year for one of those upsets. Why the Whole Trump-Clinton Election Could Probably Just Be Held in Pennsylvania 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z By Mr. Timberg’s account, his father’s career did not fulfill its early promise, a failure that exacerbated both his sense of preordained failure but also his wife’s heavy drinking. Robert Timberg, Marine and journalist who wrote about Vietnam’s scarring legacy, dies at 76 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z They anchor their very contemporary political gripes in an ancient creed, which says that much of this was preordained. Losing ground, fighters and morale – is it all over for Isis? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z "After the injuries he suffered after 2012 - missing the worlds in 2013, requiring a serious knee operation less than two years ago - this victory was never preordained. He just makes it look that way." Rio Olympics 2016: David Rudisha retains 800m crown 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z At that point, his future will be short and preordained. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z God preordained the United States and its people for a special place among nations. U.S. not so “exceptional”: American hypocrisy and the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But they also remind us that her later success was not preordained. Meryl Streep: A League of Her Own 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Some in the organization believe a sizable amount of his defensive value derives from the team’s preordained shifts. In pursuit of Reds outfielder Jay Bruce, Dodgers could part with Yasiel Puig 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Though a trade involving Chapman ahead of the Aug. 1 non-waiver deadline seemed preordained, the deal raises more questions than it settles. Yankees Ship Chapman to Cubs, but Intentions for 2016 Remain Cloudy 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Gerson may be right to be appalled by the sheer ferocity of the nativist and prejudicial forces being unleashed, their appearance on the American political landscape was all but preordained. The progressive identity politics that fed Donald Trump’s rise 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The US Soccer Hype Machine is a peculiar feature of American football culture, a media/fan hybrid always on the hunt for the latest young player preordained to “save” the game in the States. Jordan Morris, Jürgen Klinsmann and surviving the US Soccer Hype Machine 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “It was a meaningless mime, a ritual, a kabuki drama in which the outcome was utterly preordained. This is not the far-reaching and fundamental reform we were promised.” Isis leader probably in favour of Britain leaving EU, says David Cameron 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The success of such a law in a conservative state like Mississippi was practically preordained, they said. As States Expand Gun Rights, the Police Object 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Its title and astonishing opening credits notwithstanding, "Game of Thrones" has never felt mechanical or preordained. In Season 6 'Game of Thrones' goes off-book but, as always, keeps us guessing 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In some sense her political affinities were preordained. At Columbia University, Daring to Back Clinton 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But while the outcome for Mr. Garland may be preordained — at least for this year — the outcome of the political fight over the court vacancy is far from certain. Senator Grassley and Judge Garland Meet, and Rehash the Obvious 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, preordained, unexamined ideas are just another way the media continue to fail the public, and when it comes to Hillary Clinton, the failure is spectacular. They’ll always despise her: The media has its Hillary narrative, and they’re sticking to it 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Donald Trump, sure to be a mystery to future historians, is heading for his preordained crackup, tripping over a tongue bigger even than his hands. Obama is tougher on America than he is on its enemies 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z This was how Alam found the eight girls: hustling to earn a dollar or two a day, the weight of their families on their slim shoulders, their futures preordained. Bangladeshi surfer girls go against the cultural tide 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In hindsight, it’s easy enough for people today to imagine that progress on civil rights was preordained. Bernie’s idealism is his greatest virtue: America needs dreamers — and now more than ever 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Above all, the meetings are a well-choreographed display of political theater, in which all major decisions are preordained. China's leadership sessions: decisions, political theater and at times 'outrageous speech' 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Its global role and mission, a responsibility to spread American values around the world, was divinely sanctified and historically preordained, thanks to the genius of its founding fathers. American exceptionalism in a time of American malaise - BBC News 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z A major production executive and Democratic insider — female — told Ms. Daunt that the candidate had not reached out to the Hollywood sisterhood, and also suggested her nomination was not preordained. Inside the Beltway: Donald Trump practices ‘Art of the Deal’ on the media 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The case is airtight, the verdict is preordained, and there is no punishment that is too harsh for the depraved criminals at the nation’s leading provider of women’s health services. Constant humiliation won’t stop them: No end to the GOP’s anti-Planned Parenthood crusade — even though it always backfires 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The book is said to include the text of 19 speeches by Mr Putin, and highlights key quotes in bold that the introduction says "predicted and preordained" world events. Russia: Book of Putin quotes 'given to officials' - BBC News 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But that is secondary to the headlines and sometimes personal success that they achieve en route to their preordained dead end. Should Democrats Gun for a Shutdown? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But like many traditions that in retrospect seem obvious and preordained, the "Peanuts" special almost never happened. 50 years later, Charlie Brown turns out to be a 'Christmas' winner after all 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z We may be living in a “peace bubble,” where “progress toward greater peace” is not preordained. Economic magicians wanted 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The pace of volatility in contemporary politics is unprecedented, as a 74-year-old Vermont socialist is revealing to the preordained candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Trump: Odd Man Out 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z The jihadis instead saw themselves at the vanguard of a war that many among them believed had been preordained in the formative days of Islam. Why Isis fights | Martin Chulov 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z A second feature specific to Chinese politics in a crisis is the determination not to let the facts get in the way of the preordained script and to reinforce unity around that script. The politics behind China's stock market turbulence - BBC News 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Frankly it is almost refreshing to see audiences not automatically flock towards the preordained big movie on a given weekend in at least numbers great enough to generate a vaguely okay opening weekend. Box Office: 4 Reasons 'Fantastic Four' Flamed Out 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “It’s all about trying to preordain the outcome, circle the wagons and close off debate,” Mr. O’Malley told the Hill while campaigning in Iowa. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has Democrats wait to debate 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z So the good news is that Relativity was out there since 2011 releasing a bunch of smaller-scale multiplex fare to compete with the preordained blockbuster releases. On Relativity And Hollywood's Other Second-String Studios 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In the course of four years of research, one of our conclusions is that believing you must find some preordained “passion” and then pursue jobs that match it is all wrong. The Key To Finding Job Happiness 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z As he brings his characters to what seem to be preordained, increasingly gruesome ends, our horror is exponentially compounded by the fact that we never hear it coming. ‘The Tribe,’ about deaf teens in the Ukraine, marks an audacious debut 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And yet, it occurred to me about two-thirds through the film that none of this felt particularly preordained. Magic Mike XXL review: bigger, looser, and here to please 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In a preordained arrangement with President Reagan, Bush retained Nicholas Brady, the former chairman of the board of the blue-blood Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co., as Treasury secretary. Wall Street is all in for Jeb! Enron, Goldman Sachs and the forgotten Bush legacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The album, “1989,” was a preordained blockbuster that presented country radio stations with a dilemma: whether or not to play it. Bro-Country Grows Up 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The good news is that even a calendar year filled with arguably preordained blockbusters can offer some “good” lessons in terms of constructing Hollywood hits. From 'Jurassic World' To 'Fifty Shades,' Universal's Boffo 2015 Isn't Just About Tent Poles 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z I will not admit that defeat is preordained. A Copa América Confession 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But its success was not preordained, nor was its box office triumph the sort of lightning-fast mega-kill we now associate with tent poles. 'Batman Begins' Perfected The Reboot And Saved The Comic Book Movie 10 Years Ago 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Beyond that Universal did not announce, title, and date a would-be sequel years in advance as a proverbial declaration of preordained success. Best Part Of 'Jurassic World' Marketing: No Sequel Spoilers 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This may result in some missed connections and broken parties, but it would be miles ahead of the “random requests in the Tower” system currently in place, given that the areas would imply preordained priorities. If Bungie Built 'Destiny' Around Groups, They Need To Help Players Find Them 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s not much to say on this one, but it’s example on how Universal didn’t neglect the small-to-low budget genre entries in a year with a number of preordained blockbusters. From 'Jurassic World' To 'Fifty Shades,' Universal's Boffo 2015 Isn't Just About Tent Poles 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z As such, the success of Cinderella matters more to Disney in the long run than the preordained triumph of Avengers: Age of Ultron or even the presumed mega-success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 'Cinderella,' Not 'Avengers' Or 'Star Wars,' Is Disney's Most Important Blockbuster Of 2015 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z None of this preordains a full-scale financial crisis. China’s coming crash? 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z It shows that deflation is not the preordained outcome of ageing. Money for old folk 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Is that really a bad result? Is it preordained that voters in Iowa or New Hampshire must be empowered to determine which candidates are to be treated seriously? A chance for more democratic primaries, thanks to Citizens United 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It was indicative of a rare summer movie season where even most of the preordained blockbusters were more-or-less intended for grownups. 'Ghost,' 'Total Recall,' And The Adult-Skewing, (Mostly) R-Rated Summer Of 1990 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr McMurray said it was a "bogus consultation exercise geared to providing a fig leaf for their preordained but undisclosed cuts to bus and rail services". Translink railway consultation: Unite union considers industrial action 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z While a strong launch hardly preordains campaign success, a smart debut can reap more than media buzz. 2016 prospects treasure opportunity of their campaign launch 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z And tis better to use a big movie to provide prime advertising space for a smaller movie than to merely sell another preordained blockbuster that doesn’t necessarily need the help. Why Universal Teased 'Straight Outta Compton' With 'Furious 7' Instead Of 'Jurassic World' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Not because the change they won was preordained; not because their victory was complete; but because they proved that nonviolent change is possible; that love and hope can conquer hate. Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The film is probably the most preordained blockbuster this side of The Phantom Menace, so in that sense there really is no incentive to try anything different in terms of the visual marketing. 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' Poster Gets Comically Claustrophobic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Why should voters go to the polls when gerrymandering has become so scientifically precise that the results of legislative elections are preordained? Virginia’s powerless voters 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z A network publicist I knew called him “Brain” and among those in the business, his rise, as Tom Brokaw prepared his own exit from the NBC Nightly News’ anchor’s chair, seemed preordained. Anchor’s Away: Brian Williams’ Biggest Sin Was Making Himself the Story 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The preordained blockbuster used its trailer space not for another preordained blockbuster but for another comparatively smaller and demo-specific offering. Why Universal Teased 'Straight Outta Compton' With 'Furious 7' Instead Of 'Jurassic World' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The only reasonable conclusion is that Roberts and Alito saw the writing on the wall: it is preordained that the Court will vote for nationwide marriage equality later this year. Alabama’s Marriage Victory, and the Nation’s 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The period of cheap oil that began in the 1980s wasn’t preordained. Gas, Still Not as Cheap as It Used to Be 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Whatever you think about any one of these, I’d argue that the crucial point is the broader one: Middle-class stagnation is not preordained. Trying to Solve the Great Wage Slowdown 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But unlike a species of plant or animal, a business is not genetically preordained as to how big it will get. The paradoxes of successful business growth 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The tragedy is that none of that is preordained - it is a choice. Tidings of Comfort 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z In the course of many pre-trial hearings, both the defense and the prosecution have acknowledged not only that the first phase will be short but also that its outcome is all but preordained. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Pre-Trial Hearing 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Al-Qaeda aspired to be a vanguard of preordained worldwide Islamic revolution, one designed to reestablish an Islamic caliphate and hasten Judgment Day. If Al-Qaeda Is Myspace, ISIS Is Facebook 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Three-term Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge's victory was virtually preordained when the Democrats national campaign arm abandoned the race after Landrieu failed to win reelection outright on Nov. 4, forcing Saturday’s runoff. Republican Bill Cassidy defeats Mary Landrieu in Louisiana Senate race 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z This is an election, there is no preordained result, anybody that knows me well enough, particularly over the bidding and the delivery of London knows that I'm absolutely focused. Why does Lord Coe want the top job in world athletics? 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “It felt a little preordained,” Mr. Chapman says of his grade-school decision to become a professional musician. Colony House builds on musical legacy 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Nothing is preordained, said Donilon, adding, “International relations is not a subset of physics.” Obama, Xi to meet in Beijing amid political and economic strains It’s the most preordained blockbuster this side of The Dark Knight Rises. New 'Star Wars' Gets New Title 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z It is awfully hard to innovate when so many of your bedfellows believe that all questions have been settled; all alternatives have been foreclosed; all outcomes have been preordained. The Reagan Reflex 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The idea, he said, is to make sure players are invested in their performance and not make them feel as if their success is preordained by a front-office strategy. World Series 2014: G.M. Brian Sabean Is Giants’ Implacable Leader 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z When it comes to marketing preordained franchise blockbusters you can trust the audience and go minimalist or you can give the whole game away. The 'Saw' Franchise Was A Triumph In Spoiler-Free Marketing 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Our preference orderings do determine our actions; but they are not preordained. Will Americans ever vote for a far-reaching wealth tax? 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z There’s nothing preordained or natural about our current economic circumstances. Nation listing from our income imbalance 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The sixth pick of the 1992 major league draft, he took a path to the organization highlighted by a series of fortunate events that in retrospect might seem to have been preordained. The Impact of Derek Jeter’s Numbers, Especially the One on His Back 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But he sounded several notes of caution, wondering whether the setup might be subject to manipulation, favoring “a preordained outcome directed by public officials” on a given issue. Online Petitions Proposed to Offer New Yorkers a New Way to Speak Out 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The results also suggest that the progression of autism isn’t inevitable, and that its symptoms aren’t entirely biologically or genetically preordained. A New Parent-Based Therapy May Treat Autism in Infants 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Traditional handicappers such as the Rothenberg Political Report, the Cook Political Report and Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball show too many races still too close to call to suggest the outcome is preordained. 8 questions — and answers — about the midterm elections Like an Oscar season without a preordained front-runner heading into October, this summer was the least predictable, and thus most exciting, season I’ve seen in ages. Why Summer Box Office Was Down in 2014 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Foreign journalists who attend official news conferences in China are familiar with their often preordained nature, with only a select few reporters being permitted to ask questions. Chinese Journalists Barred From Canadian Leader's Trip 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And Shyamalan used his capitol to continue to craft his own would-be blockbusters rather than get pulled into one preordained franchise after another. 'The Sixth Sense' Made M. Night Shyamalan Our Last Original Blockbuster Director 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z A playoff rematch with the A’s, of course, is hardly preordained. Athletics Acquire Jon Lester and Tigers Pick Up David Price 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z With preordained success like that, what do you gain from spilling the beans this early? 'Avengers 2' Doesn't Need A Marketing Campaign 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “The outcome was not preordained,” Mr. Cunningham said. Anxious Moments for an Afghanistan on the Brink 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But such rivalry was not preordained, he added. U.S., China try to emphasize potential for cooperation They are not naturally occurring arrangements in the world but rather more recent inventions; the way they operate is not preordained. Disruptive Innovation And Education 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But most of the time that involves preordained blockbuster sequels being even bigger hits thanks to the strength of China, Russia, or the like. 'Pacific Rim 2' May Be A Box Office Game-Changer 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “It was preordained. Chile were a great team but we found strength.” Brazil shootout hero Júlio César: I have won the country’s trust back 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Shortly before he died, Dr. Ajami wrote in a Wall Street Journal column that the current “sad state of affairs” in Iraq “was in no way preordained.” Fouad Ajami, influential scholar of the Middle East, dies at 68 The moment this World Cup achieved lift off was not before kick-off, when the Brazilian national anthem was sung a cappella with such passion it appeared victory was preordained. Brazil and Croatia remind us what the World Cup is all about 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But Mikitani was dissatisfied with the preordained track ahead of him. Grand Bazaar 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The preordained career paths that ordinarily would have been theirs — the government posting, the academic career … were gone.” The Tiananmen Massacre: 25 Years Later, Three Students Tell What They Saw 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Grant’s sentence was all but preordained after his attorneys reached a plea agreement with prosecutors on May 7 just as his trial was about to begin. Victims’ advocates tell of suffering of Grant’s rape victims at sentencing 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t know if there are many of these cases, but as they happen, the result would seem to be very clear. And preordained,” he said. Same-sex marriage is new test for Catholic institutions used to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ 2014-04-07T09:00:00Z Once again, she made a decision preordained to create some unhappiness. With gay-discrimination bill, Arizona Gov. Brewer again finds self at center of standoff 2014-02-28T00:42:00Z After the House authorized an increase in the federal debt ceiling without conditions, the bill went to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where its passage was preordained. Cruz Acts Out in Senate Drama 2014-02-13T20:35:26Z Manning, as one of three sons of longtime NFL quarterback Archie Manning, seemed preordained for success from almost the moment he was born. Peyton Manning vs. Russell Wilson a contrast in styles, ages 2014-01-22T01:51:29Z Officials said the president would probably remind those watching that Mr. Mandela’s success in life was not preordained. Obama, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton Share Flight to South Africa 2013-12-10T11:47:54Z It was a huge boon for the Clinton campaign, for it looked almost as if Kennedy was handing the torch to the next generation of Democratic leaders, and that the Arkansan's success was somehow preordained. The JFK myth v reality 2013-11-22T09:50:39Z Grantham’s asset allocation deputy Ben Inker does note that all this need not necessarily be preordained, especially if the country enters a “golden age” of corporate investment and economic growth. This Market Is Going Higher, Warns Jeremy Grantham 2013-11-20T11:06:31Z Perseverance, adaptability, and self-improvement would become subordinate to to what people would see as innate talent and near certain prosperity preordained by one’s genes. Are We Too Close to Making Gattaca a Reality? 2013-10-28T15:15:00.397Z Yet another difference is that the brouhaha over the Fed choice wasn’t preordained. Did Larry Summers Get Borked? Not Really 2013-09-16T17:07:31Z Exposure to violent imagery does not preordain violence, but it is a risk factor. Gray Matter: Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing? 2013-08-23T19:22:02Z Analysts said that publicizing the hearing was the party’s attempt to lend legitimacy to a trial in which a guilty verdict and long prison sentence were almost certainly preordained. At Surprisingly Open Trial in China, Fallen Politician Shows Defiance 2013-08-23T06:34:22Z The technique involves turning a computer-designed object into a real-world part by controlling a high-powered laser beam which melts and fuses thin layers of metallic powders into the preordained shape. Nasa tests 3D-printed engine part 2013-07-15T12:24:32Z But this was never preordained, nothing else but the culmination of a lifetime of relentless work and ceaseless ambition. Murray blows apart greatest British sporting hoodoo 2013-07-07T22:14:08Z But ne’er-do-well heirs crash and burn all the time proving that access to money and power does not preordain success. A Sports Agent With Hollywood in His Blood 2013-07-06T21:21:40Z That it took an epic Game 6 to get there seemed preordained because, truly, some other force was guiding Ray Allen’s overtime-forcing 3-pointer. Leading Off: Heat Draw a Line in the Sand 2013-06-19T15:11:04Z Governments in Europe and Britain today are obsessed with hitting preordained and unconditional targets. COLUMN - If Europe wants Thatcherism, it must abandon austerity: Kaletsky 2013-04-16T22:08:48Z But most of these projects will have been preordained — interesting stars, clouds or galaxies already seen in different parts of the spectrum by other telescopes. Radio astronomy: The patchwork array 2013-03-13T18:20:31.127Z Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images There are games that seem almost preordained, settled before the first kick. Wales may have done England a favour by running Ireland so close 2013-02-07T22:00:03Z "Which buffoon had failed to read my preordained script correctly?" Shane Warne: a wax mannequin manqué who is growing old disgracefully 2013-01-08T12:42:02Z |
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