preordained

I still take issue with your idea that the HFT is injecting itself into some preordained transaction.

That seems a lot like changing the terms of the argument (asymmetrically!) to fit a preordained conclusion.

It wasn't an acquisition, but Office was the preordained killer app in the early Mac days.

Conversely, positivity doesn't encourage action: if you believe that a positive outcome is preordained, there's no need to take action.

Given any historical event with winners and losers, it reframes it as a contest between innovator and non-innovator with a preordained outcome.

Another notion is that the outcome was preordained when the coins were made.

But it is not preordained that every monarch will become mentally warped.

This is preordained, since he always says positive things about Apple products.

Then they base their opinion on the chosen narrative, but of course once the questions are framed and facts established, their 'opinion' is preordained.

Round 2: the game has changed, but the outcome, even if preordained, remains as yet unknown.

Do you really believe that everything in your life is preordained?

The losers of that fight have been preordained and now everything just has to play out How do I know this?

Math.max" example, Oracle explains that the developers could have called it any number of things, including "Math.maximum" or "Arith.larger." This was not a situation where Oracle was selecting among preordained names and phrases to create its packages.