What's the difference between elected and predestination?

Elected


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Elect

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (2) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (3) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (4) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (5) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (6) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (7) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (8) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (9) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
  • (10) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
  • (11) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (14) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
  • (16) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
  • (17) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (18) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (19) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
  • (20) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.

Predestination


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of predestinating.
  • (n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When under the present experimental conditions bleeding takes place into this cellular tissue, it splits without any particular, predestined cleavage plane, although most often close to the fibrous matter of the dura.
  • (2) Monodisperse suspensions of epidermal cells appear to "implant" and establish small epidermal plaques in the uterus only at sites predestined to accept conceptuses.
  • (3) This procedure has been applied with prophylactic and therapeutic benefits in mice predestined to develop leukemia and reticulum cell sarcoma.
  • (4) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
  • (5) The pathological family-structure seems to reinforce the situation and the existence of inadequate behavior of patients with anorexia nervosa, who are often introverted and predestinated for conditioning.
  • (6) Phospholipase D (PLD), an enzyme predestined for the preparation of new phospholipids, was isolated from cabbage and purified in a highly efficient way by using a combination of hydrophobic chromatography and a specific calcium effect.
  • (7) When Chinese premier Li Keqiang meets the Queen this week the protocol will doubtless be spotless, while his trade and investment mission is also predestined to be a success.
  • (8) Predestination of fiber tracts and alternative proposals to the pedestination theory are considered to explain QRS aberration due to exclusive His bundle lesions.
  • (9) Although platelets are primarily predestined to exhibit this function, certain pathological conditions can lead to exposure of a procoagulant surface in other cells as well.
  • (10) In order to manifest such feelings through concrete actions,” he said, “we have engraved in our hearts the histories of suffering of the people in Asia as our neighbours.” But he added: “We must not let our children, grandchildren, and even further generations to come, who have nothing to do with the war, be predestined to apologise.
  • (11) High sensitivity range of iodide concentration and simplicity of performance predestinate described method for epidemiological studies in iodide deficiency regions.
  • (12) Treading in the footsteps of the late Samuel Huntington, these vulgar Huntingtonians suggest that Ukraine's eastern, Orthodox cultural legacy somehow condemns it to democratic failure, while Poland's western, Catholic heritage predestined it for democratic success.
  • (13) The data illustrate that: (i) primary stimulated cells predestined to produce IgA anti-LPS antibodies home mainly to the intestine, while cells predestined to anti-fimbrial antibody production have a greater tendency to populate the mammary gland; (ii) after repeated antigen stimulation and maturation of the immune response the cells are directed from the mammary gland to the intestine.
  • (14) By demolishing the idea that Europe is predestined for “ever closer union”, Grexit would actually make it easier for the prime minister to sell continued membership to the British.
  • (15) There is no predestined level for the goal of therapy.
  • (16) After studying Vogt's fate maps, Spemann wrote (in 1938) that "the question which at once calls for an answer is whether this pattern of presumptive primordia in the beginning gastrula is the expression of a real difference of these parts, whether they are already more or less predestined or 'determined' for their ultimate fate, or whether they are still indifferent and will not receive their determination until a later time."
  • (17) The chancellor, Angela Merkel, has argued that her birthplace, a wealthy port city and a “beacon of free trade”, was “almost predestined” to host the gathering of the world’s leading industrialised and developing economies.
  • (18) The large percentage of histopathological findings confirms, that the appendix--being a rudimentary lymphatic organ--appears to be predestined for inflammatory changes.
  • (19) On the other hand this modern noninvasive, picture yielding and ever reproducible method is predestined for objective confirmation of the late complaint after maxillary sinus operation.
  • (20) The most important advantage of wound-immunization is the speed and ease with which it can be administered, a fact which predestines it for vaccination in emergency cases.