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Foregone
Definition:
(p. p.) of Forego
Example Sentences:
(1) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(2) Barcelona’s tormentor-in-chief put his penalty to Cech’s right and, although Wenger insisted he will play his strongest team in the return leg, that moment makes it feel like a foregone conclusion.
(3) Ultimately, it is only the explicit recognition by the medical profession, government agencies, corporate insurers, and the general public of the nature and significance of this market failure and foregone benefits which can lead to remediation.
(4) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
(5) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said he did not accept that the AV result was a "foregone conclusion", despite opinion polls suggestions the yes campaign is heading for defeat.
(6) "And all the best to the young chap who said that England winning was a foregone conclusion.
(7) Built into the name of the inquiry are the foregone conclusions: first, the desired equivalence of Nazi and Soviet crimes; and second, the limitation to consider the crimes of "occupation regimes", leaving little scope for investigation of the genocide committed by local forces, in some cases before the occupation began.
(8) A pretty large majority of the policy elite thinks this will get approved although it’s not a foregone conclusion,” Moran said.
(9) But the climate change levy raises less than is foregone by the national insurance cut.
(10) 1.17am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, bottom of 1st Lance Lynn pus a 1-0 fastball right in the wheelhouse but Carl Crawford can only lift it to center field - John Jay is waiting, and has it, which, by the way is no longer a foregone conclusion following his dismal performance last night.
(11) Experts say the outcome of the election is a foregone conclusion and only voter turnout will be a gauge of popularity for Sisi, who has enjoyed cult-like status since he ousted his predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013 .
(12) Boris Johnson It is almost a foregone conclusion that the London mayor will return to parliament as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip following the resignation of former deputy chief whip Sir John Randall, meaning he will spend a year combining the jobs of mayor and MP.
(13) And given the constrained nature of the UK private medical sector, the effect of tax relief would most likely be not a saving to the NHS but a considerable cost to the Treasury in income foregone to fund the tax relief, and an increase in the fees that doctors and private hospitals could charge.
(14) This translates into about $900bn of foregone goods and services this year alone – a tremendous waste reflected in an unemployment rate of 7.9% and a poverty rate of 15%, significantly higher than the average of the past 30 years.
(15) That, of course, was basically a foregone conclusion roughly seconds after Derrick Rose went down for the Chicago Bulls and it became obvious they were the only true championship-caliber teams in the whole Eastern Conference.
(16) They wanted to present the revocation of our contract and the reduction in our pay to the citizens of Philadelphia (and, more importantly, the rest of Pennsylvania, where Corbett stands a remote chance at the polls) as though it were a foregone conclusion that our city’s educators are irrevocably opposed to the needs of our kids – that we wouldn’t have stepped up or sacrificed enough.
(17) A foregone conclusion is that central neural and endocrine control of gastrointestinal functions is based on a complex array of interconnecting brain structures, neurochemical systems, and hormonal modulators.
(18) Thompson said today's decision showed that the BBC Trust's PVT was not a foregone conclusion, as some critics had claimed.
(19) But the broadcaster, SABC, decided to make only nine programmes, because the winner was a foregone conclusion.
(20) Adolf Eichmann's trial on charges of war crimes might, in the eyes of some people, present a foregone conclusion.