predetermine

Example Sentences

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If residents couldn’t make it to these, there were predetermined “public temporary refuge areas” within each neighborhood, such as street intersections and homes with large cleared backyards, that provide some increased chance of survival.

From Los Angeles Times

If personal behaviors are “predetermined” by nature or even by nurture, then personal freedom and any corresponding concepts of morality and personal responsibility are mute by definition.

From Washington Times

The process “was, from the outset, a biased effort to justify a predetermined outcome, not a fair analysis of the evidence.”

From Los Angeles Times

They accused him of mounting an investigation with a predetermined outcome favorable to Mr. Trump.

From Washington Times

He refused to give an answer, to bind himself to one reality or the other, to predetermine what his successful path could be instead of living presently.

From Los Angeles Times