Preestablished

Pakistani terrorists functioned like commandos, making an amphibious landing near Mumbai, infiltrating the city, converging on a set of preestablished targets and killing at least 173 people, mainly with AK-47s. ❋ Steven Simon (2010)

Rather, their brains come prefitted with an area for absorbing linguistic information—not just absorbing it, but actually sorting the bits of speech they first hear into preestablished categories. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

As with Boehner's preestablished commitment to more spending on Medicare, political parties put rewarding their constituencies -- in the GOP's case rich people and old people -- above ideology. ❋ Adam Serwer (2010)

“Death is usually due to the failure of a preestablished escape mechanism.” ❋ Kathy Reichs (2010)

The second is that if these problems arose, the companies activated a response plan to halt the suspected violation immediately, to investigate the circumstances thoroughly and in an unbiased manner and to penalize guilty perpetrators according to preestablished guidelines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the surfaceIn the days following the crash, nearly 30 vessels sweep through preestablished search grids in rows of three, about a quarter mile apart, looking between the boats for bodies and debris. ❋ Unknown (2008)

__Do you prefer well-defined work tasks using preestablished methods to solve familiar problems? ❋ Nicholas Lore (2008)

Given that, it just makes perfect sense to exploit this preestablished exception i.e. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first of these, universalism, asserts that whatever their origins, truth claims should be subjected to preestablished, impersonal criteria. ❋ Hansson, Sven Ove (2008)

There are lists with the preestablished routes that we have to follow with absolute precision and concentration. ❋ Marcos Witt (2007)

Suddenly the air traffic controller radioed to tell me that he had noticed that I was more than five miles outside the preestablished route printed on the lists I had in my lap at that moment and that I should have been following without deviation. ❋ Marcos Witt (2007)

Leibniz's account of mind-body causation was in terms of his famous doctrine of the preestablished harmony. ❋ Kulstad, Mark (2007)