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Police then said several suspects had been arrested following what appeared to be a "targeted and predetermined" assassination.

Obama’s subtle and possibly unconscious change from the cosmological to the temporal is significant in showing that liberals, too, think that history is somehow predetermined in their favor.

But Jerold Mande, a former federal food policy advisor in three administrations, worries that Kennedy's own views and biases will mean some of the solutions he's reaching for are predetermined and unsupported by the evidence.

Despite his improved execution and efficiency, it turned out he and the team had made a predetermined decision not to push him for a second inning quite yet.

This is because there has been a desperate search for a plausible theological justification for a predetermined political decision for Trump.