Predetermined

His depression is a long-established beast, its terms of engagement predetermined from the outset of the book and subject to only the sketchiest of examinations. ❋ Clare Clark (2010)

You could require it only be taken out for use in predetermined milieus — someone visits a theater with it, another a restaurant at which a call is to be made and received, another on a day hike through the Santa Cruz hills to test reception, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Individual behavior in an organization is relatively stable and predictable because organizational structure is characterized by predetermined goals, prescribed roles, an authority structure, rules and regulations, and informal patterns. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

ARBER, NATHANS and SMITH (1978) discovered the enzymes with which it is possible to cut a DNA molecule in predetermined places. ❋ Unknown (1989)

However, each single cell can only produce antibodies with a certain predetermined specificity. ❋ Unknown (1984)

One served to clamp the voltage in predetermined steps, the other to measure the current produced during activity. ❋ Unknown (1972)

The antiaircraft guns at Hamburg were not firing at individual aircraft, but instead were set up to fire in predetermined grid blocks over the target we were to bomb. ❋ Unknown (1944)

The chances are zero – that’s because she is ideologically required to come only to certain predetermined conclusions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, this is a major philosophical question – if everything is in reality deterministic, isn’t everything we do or think predetermined from the very beginning of time? ❋ Unknown (2006)

High food prices are therefore what scenario planners would call a 'predetermined element' - something we should expect for a decade at least, until supply conditions fundamentally adjust. ❋ Adam Gordon (2011)

I would like to start with the regulatory topic, you ended - the first one would be too big a discussion, the dust really settles here, the most important question for me that remains open is on the so-called predetermined breaking points so important, and how that is reconcilable with the integrated banking model. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the angle of the tubes are often genetically predetermined, which is why ear infections tend to run in families and why a few people still get them as adults. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While he is certainly correct to say that most assembly races in California are " predetermined, " he is wrong to place the blame for this predetermination at the feet of those who draw up the targeted lists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And finally, in case you haven't yet had your fill of McKinney, you might also want to know that someone answering the phone at the McKinney headquarters today has been saying all sorts of wacky things, including claiming that the vote was "predetermined" and a "lie," and that that the McKinney campaign received bomb threats. print share ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, how can you possibly still be accusing us of holding "predetermined" views of the Bush admin? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Taking the cyclical [pattern] of [poverty], some sociologists [take that] as a sign of social predeterminism. ❋ Hosang Lee (2007)

[Michael kay]:” You don’t want to fall victim to the [fallacy of the predetermined outcome], but you have to wonder how things are different if the [umpire] called that pitch a strike.” ❋ Lolknicks (2021)

My baby was ultrasounded as a [predetermined gay] so I gave him up to [adoption] at some [randoms] house for free, I didn’t even give the child a name or a basket just placed him there on the concrete. ❋ ITZEXEED (2022)