Sentences with phrase «predetermined the outcome of»

A predetermined outcome of the present course: no more TeeVee ads for delicious crab cakes shipped to your door.

The clarity provided by the Bedford case is helpful but the ratio of the BC Fed case was clearly never a precedent that predetermined the outcome of the issue now before the Law Society and to be before the Court.

We can not speak for the judge / commissioner, or predetermine the outcome of a hearing.

Not exact matches

The outcome of the development is, in a given environment, predetermined by this program.

Neither do I mean to suggest that there is some final outcome that the course of world history is predetermined to attain.

But it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if, instead of rioting, the people went to the local police stations and lay down on the steps, the footpath, along the road, and refused to leave until they got a predetermined outcome (eg a review of the evidence, apologies etc, or a form of forgiveness and grace as Jeremy has suggested here).

«It is to trust that the outcome of allowing the tension of the old and the new to be felt can be a creative synthesis which can not be predetermined or planned» (LL 131).

We have free - will, but outcomes have predetermined results based on the condition of our heart.

Life is predetermined to the extent that the outcome of our eternal living arrangement is based on whether or not we accept Christ into our heart, and live according to the word of God.

Each of the votes were marked by violence, and in the case of Bayelsa and Rivers, extreme violence; and in all of them, the fact that the federal government desired a predetermined outcome, even if it did not go so far as to outrightly impose its preference, was clearly evident.

With numerous races in 2015 not being contested and some outcomes predetermined because of major party cross-endorsements, how significant will the drop in voter turnout be, especially among non-party enrolled voters, considered swing voters?

Chairman of the party in the state, Dan Orbih, who addressed the media, alleged that the outcome of the exercise had been predetermined by the ruling All Progressives Congress.

undertaken, not to discover some underlying truth, but rather designed to obtain a predetermined and biased outcome as part of a marketing effort.

He defines systems in his work as «a way of communicating an intelligible idea in terms of shapes colours and forms, or an organisation principle that I predetermine and allow to run to see what the outcomes will be...» In his painting here, Triangles within a Dodecagon, he takes the regular twelve sided shape as its starting place and bases an equilateral triangle between two of the vertices, or along one of the sides.

The film isn't the results of research it is the research, and so the outcome of the piece was not predetermined.

Unlike procedures that elicit predetermined outcomes, the criteria to arrive at the completion of these distinctive works are inexplicable.

They are revelations of the potential for something beautiful to happen when a human interacts with the materials and processes of the physical world in an open but intentional way, without a predetermined outcome in mind.

In their overzealous overreach, according to Debenham, the Fish and Wildlife Service rejects science and traditional tribal knowledge that do not agree with their predetermined outcomes, and seeks mitigation measures, such as idling of wind turbines for extended periods, that can make any profitable energy project uncertain of revenue if not uneconomical.

The whole point of the Mann paper is that synthetic regional data could entirely fool the Wyatt et al method, which in effect is shown to predetermine Wyatt's outcome.

Given the demographic trends and continuing drought, those laws are like a tin can on the track of an oncoming train: it's a predetermined outcome that legislators will eventually grant people the means to face the drought the way Australians have.

It's also interesting to note that in their Summary of Michael Mann's 12 January 2010 interview, the Committee reported that, «he had never falsified any data, nor had he had ever manipulated data to serve a given predetermined outcome (my bold)»

Unfortunately, the outcome of her article was predetermined by the narrow scope of her question.

The outcomes of trials in which the government had a strong political stake, such as those touching on Islam as it related to political life and national security, the legitimacy of the monarchy, and the Western Sahara, sometimes appeared predetermined.

The only way the NEB panel can be sure of having any influence on the project is to give a recommendation of «yes with conditions,» so the outcome of the hearing process is predetermined.»

Mrs Martin brought a claim of unfair dismissal on the basis the redundancy was a sham, namely there was a predetermined outcome to the redundancy selection exercise.

Binary options trading: Binary options trading is a form of trading in which traders expect to earn a predetermined payout or nothing at all (they are also called all - or - nothing options) based on the success of their «prediction» of the outcome of a specific market event.

Two reviewers independently extracted data regarding participant and intervention characteristics, assessment techniques, and outcomes and assigned overall quality and strength - of - evidence ratings using predetermined criteria.

For example, if a mediator has intimate knowledge of the area and the claimant group, or other Indigenous groups residing in the area, then he or she may run the mediation with a predetermined outcome in mind.

Some of those outcomes (such as behavior often labeled «innate» or «instinctive») are relatively invariant, but this invariance reflects a dynamic rather than a static constancy, ensured by a system of stable... developmental interactions, not a predetermined set of instructions encoded in the genes.

In that theory, invariant developmental outcomes can not be identified with an organism's «nature,» if by that term is meant a set of predetermined and unalterable features, such as a genetic blueprint.

Too often, the ability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to fully participate in decision - making processes is stymied by factors such as inadequate timeframes, predetermined outcomes, a lack of access to all relevant information and insufficient consideration of our decision - making processes.

There have been suggestions in recent years that the whole notion of meaningful citizen participation in lawmaking has fallen out of fashion — that no matter how hard you try, or how sincere your efforts, the legislative outcome is predetermined by forces beyond your control.

I, personally, attended the futures meeting and like anyone who attended, who has any understanding of how to control a discussion or obtain a predetermined result, you would have easily realized how this entire discussion was funneled to a specific outcome from before the meeting was even held.