0 present participle of predetermine --
1 to decide or arrange something at an earlier time: --
It's impossible to say how much a person's behaviour is predetermined by their genes.
This conduct is most often associated with a professional who believes that his/her referral source will provide future business on the basis of receiving a predetermining finding.
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.
It also constructs the poor as objects of charity, predetermining their roles in civic society.
I have always thought that the predetermining conditions were almost at birth, depending on the condition of the family and the extent of love within that family.
The first objective is that of predetermining the solutions and therefore of guaranteeing legal certainty to the citizens and to the economic operators that are victims of torts.
He is predetermining that the industry will be typified by the obsolescence of its equipment.
We are not predetermining anything: nothing is ruled in and nothing is ruled out, as the saying goes.
We are asked to pass a motion predetermining the situation.