preassigned

Inside, the intruders moved with an economy of motion, each carrying out a preassigned task.

Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

Inside, the intruders moved with an economy of motion, each carrying out a preassigned task.

Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.

Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.

Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.

Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

When it comes to the abortion issue in a Democratic Supreme Court nomination, everybody plays their preassigned role.

Context Matters 2010

Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.

Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

But more often, the frames are shoddily constructed and prefab: simplistic narratives that coerce the participants in a given story into preassigned roles, regardless of the complexity of what actually happened.

Robert Koehler: Cheap Frames 2009

ETC3 allows its users to select the parameters for the composition of some random poetry, based upon the “styles” of other poets, whereupon the software goes on to create a text that conforms to these preassigned constraints (be they in the form of a chosen subject, a chosen grammar, a chosen lexicon, etc.).

Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

With his place on the social scale preassigned by birth, Valentin is not so fortunate: “What I envy you is your liberty,” he observes, “your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you.”

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