0 If an action or event is predestined, it is controlled by God or by fate: --
It seems the expedition is predestined to fail because there have been so many problems.
What is so sickening about this catalogue of malaise is that there is nothing predestined or inevitable about it.
I do not know whether we are to regard this as predestined.
Furthermore, we are uniquely predestined to deal with crises in the world because we have a wide range of instruments available to implement our strategies.
There are indeed forces of the spirit; great movements towards a predestined sanctuary which cannot be crushed or deflected.
The economic crisis and the climate crisis were not predestined by fate.
The results of the various competitions are not yet known; they are not predestined; in sport, anything can happen.
History had no predestined path: contingent circumstances, chance, and human will would together determine which of the multiple possibilities contained in the present would become fact.
And it was the presumption of homology that guaranteed the identity of individual freedom with the freedom of all of humanity in the predestined historical unfolding of the absolute spirit.
