Say this trend holds, and Romney is the foreordained choice in 2012.

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But is it foreordained that stocks will deliver a terrific return?

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It is foreordained that the Corps will ask for new locks, and will say that without them the competitiveness of U.S. grain exports is at risk.

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Was it foreordained that Microsoft stock would keep going up?

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In this context, the protection of Huiyuan was almost foreordained.

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Unfortunately, it is not foreordained that Mr. Clinton's new-found interest in American leadership and engagement overseas will overcome the cumulative effects of inattention to these issues on public attitudes and preferences.

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Most of the winners, if not foreordained, were expected.

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Still, it might make sense for you folks in New York (or in California or Texas or many other states where the outcome seems all but foreordained) to go to the polls.

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Irwin Jacobs had run the publicly held company as his own one-man show, and it was all but foreordained from the moment Paul joined up in 1990 that one day Paul would take over when Irwin stepped down.

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