Linking food allocations with centrally pre-decided quotas regardless of the reality on the ground is a method to reduce the share of the poor in national resources.
The contest tested participants' versatility in arguing both for and against a pre-decided topic.
To get an idea of what he felt like, try stopping a stopwatch when it is showing a pre-decided number of milliseconds.
He's keeping his eyes open and does not appear to be selecting information on the basis of support for a pre-decided result.
Instead, the policy was pre-decided, the desired facts were predetermined, and the intelligence agencies were told to justify it.
They should really stop doing studies which try to prove pre-decided points with lots of backwards logic.
We were at the mercy of the winds completely; nothing could be pre-decided.
The students were in groups of friends following their pre-decided routes.
You will know that on occasions, Government is accused of appropriating elements of research for its pre-decided purposes.
How long has it been since we saw a convention actually choose the candidate, rather than the whole thing being pre-decided in the primaries?
Synonyms
prearranged, arranged in advance, established in advance, set, fixed, preset, pre-agreed, pre-established, pre-planned, agreed, settled