(a.) Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
(a.) Hypermetropic.
Example Sentences:
(1) If a subject who is sufficiently farsighted removes his corrective, positive, lenses and looks with one eye from a distance of one or a few meters, at a small lighted area such as the (continuously "on") indicator light of an electric toothbrush, razor, or smoke detector, and if a small object such as a pin is then moved slowly from above to below the subject's eyes (in a plane close to the eye), the subject will perceive the object moving normally from above to below until it encroaches on his view of the lighted area.
(2) Often, it is difficult to find the appropriate overview for circumstances, so that a sound and farsighted approach is essential, which-for its part-requires a constructive cooperation of all parties involved.
(3) It was during this time of reform, of fermentation, of maturation, that a group of farsighted American ophthalmologists decided to establish a society to further the aims and objectives of our specialty in America.
(4) Those birds appeared to be hyperopic (farsighted) by 2-7 D. In this study, examination with infrared photorefraction of the focusing of two unrestrained, feeding birds showed that they could focus objects at infinity and objects in their immediate environment and that they had modest powers of accommodation.
(5) It is from this foundation that the left and socially progressive forces should work to reaffirm the social democratic principles of the EU’s founders, and farsighted leaders such as Jacques Delors, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Labour’s own Roy Jenkins.
(6) Farsighted individuals or institutions will take steps to survive in a destabilizing health care market.
(7) However, we are most indebted to the farsighted and strong commitment of our member hospitals to diabetes care in their communities.
(8) Thus, whenever a Latin American country sought unilateral assistan ce, their own farsighted goals of health for their people have often bee n forced into a secondary place by guidance from shortsighted but technically proficient spokesmen of ultrasophisticated medical care.
(9) The most important thing is to get people out of bad situations … And to be frank it’s very, very difficult when you hear evidence like we heard this afternoon that shelters are operating on a one-year funding basis.” There needs to be a “farsighted” bipartisan approach to programs and policies: “You can’t have one-year funding and expect to get long-term results.” The hearing continues.
(10) It can be stated that we pedodontists have a degree of farsight in the treatment of traumatic injuries to the teeth regarding children (the theme of the lecture), since the injured teeth are treated not only as items to be restored but also as a part of the growing body with careful consideration on the effects with regard to orlo-facial growth.
(11) Wise, farsighted representatives would "refine and enlarge the public views".
Sagacious
Definition:
(a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
(a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(2) Election officials have also disqualified Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the man who until just a few weeks ago was the country's prime minister, under articles ensuring candidates are, among many other things, "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate".
(3) He is a kindly and sagacious presence on our television screens and, in this febrile pre-referendum climate, has attained mystical powers for Scottish nationalists.
(4) As the more sagacious judges tell us, managers are rarely as good as they are cracked up to be when they are winning, and not as bad in adversity.
(5) The nurse's sagacious management of neurologic, hemodynamic and pulmonary status and the ongoing support of the patient and family throughout the angioplasty procedure is crucial to a positive outcome.
(6) The tour was organised by the normally sagacious Dr Ali Bacher, who had been South Africa's last captain before the country was banished from Test cricket at the start of the 1970s.
(7) The captain who guided it through the rapids was the sagacious Lord Bragg, who would rather be remembered as the novelist Melvyn Bragg .
(8) And, now, perhaps seeing the peak of the native advertising bubble, and with the help of the ever-clueless New York Times , it is, sagaciously, ready to get out with whatever it can.
(9) Credit must also go to the sagacious Pékerman whose faith in the young star has allowed Rodríguez to truly blossom.
(10) Because he feels at home in the 12th century, an era of sagacious kings and sustainable cabbages.