Your phone, alas, is not ordained.

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Tonight's result was not pre-ordained but it was predictable.

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Still, failure is not pre-ordained.

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Unhappily for Mr Raffarin, that does not mean victory is pre-ordained.

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And yet it is not a plan that is pre-ordained to succeed.

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And while the battle for Germany was still raging he cautioned subsequent generations not to assume that there was something providential or pre-ordained about the allied victory.

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I'm mean, I'm not a fan of the comments because I think they move us away from the fact that people have a right to return to New Orleans, not because they're black and that it's a God-ordained space for a black city.

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