preordaining

Hopefully researchers will let the data speak for itself without preordaining an outcome which the data must be made to conform to.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research 2009

This stunning defeat causes another "helpful wave of indignation" [1] across the "homeland," preordaining a new US response.

Big "Sacrifice" Gambit 2007

I wrote earlier about how I thought much of Twitter's value came from not preordaining the way it should be used, the way Dodgeball did.

Consider Twitter - Anil Dash 2007

Would you go along with that or is that sort of preordaining something that is not a foregone conclusion?

CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Races Heat Up in Wake of New Hampshire Primary - February 5, 2000 2000

I mean I agree with you, I think that's preordaining something that's not a forgone conclusion and even if Bush does survive the McCain challenge I still think that he will be somewhat weakened by it.

CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Races Heat Up in Wake of New Hampshire Primary - February 5, 2000 2000

So I think you can certainly, just by going out and gathering empirical data, draw some conclusion that there's an element of preordaining here.

Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart ITY National Archives 1998

Derivation sees among the effects of the innate tendency to change, irrespective of altered surrounding circumstances, a manifestation of creative power in the variety and beauty of the results; and, in the ultimate forthcoming of a being susceptible of appreciating such beauty, evidence of the preordaining of such relation of power to the appreciation.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

As this previous preparation may be in the mind, in the form of a purpose, the word is often used in the sense of preordaining, or appointing.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

He recently grabbed headlines by accusing the local media of preordaining Landrieu the winner, saying, "There's a move afoot today to ensure that we have a majority white council, an inspector general that's white, a district attorney that's white, a U.S. attorney that's white, a head of education that's white."

Salon 2010

He recently grabbed headlines by accusing the local media of preordaining Landrieu the winner, saying, "There's a move afoot today to ensure that we have a majority white council, an inspector general that's white, a district attorney that's white, a U.S. attorney that's white, a head of education that's white."

Salon 2010