Instead of predetermining initiatives and responses, a policy of flexibility and responsiveness might be instituted.

But whether you favor astrology or a more rational concept such as genetics or behavioristic psychology, you must admit to a certain predetermining of our lives.

Both fatalism and predeterminism, by referring to the personal "fate" or to "predetermined events" strongly imply the existence of a someone or something that has done the "predetermining."

Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time.

More particularly there was a strong sense that life had been predetermined.

The outcome of this process was in no way predetermined.

The length of the game is predetermined by the players.

Further, he says, the structure of the brain is not predetermined for each individual.

It's too easy to ask closed questions which almost predetermine the response given.

And that predetermined the nature of the revolution when it came?

In events of this type the match points are predetermined.

The effort of both police and government is to predetermine political outcomes.

"The purchase price was predetermined at a set rate of return," he said.

Most States have predetermined the number of minutes that will be taught within a given content area.

If one can, then it clearly doesn't have free will but is predetermined.

These classes have predetermined items that the player cannot change.

The result of any deal is predetermined before the first cards are dealt.

"I would like people to understand us correctly: this decision was predetermined," he said.

The next thing he had to do was predetermined.

From 1999-2002, the two removed answers were predetermined by the production team.

Some battles in the game are predetermined and cannot be avoided.

Each card has a rule that is predetermined before the game starts.

In any case, length of stay does not predetermine his competence.

The pitcher can still control the result, but the tools he has to work with are usually predetermined.

He quickly added that the Pope's conclusion was not predetermined.

This means that the curriculum of a student's first two years is essentially predetermined.

"I think it was already predetermined basically on who they were going to go with.

The "look" of being an artist is predetermined by cultural precedent.