(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.
Forerunner
Definition:
(n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
(n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.
(n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role such a unit may have as a forerunner of the formation of similar units in other specialities of medicine is emphasized.
(2) This spontaneous mechanism of O2 reduction with the generation of oxidized drug free radicals and reduced oxygen free radicals is unprecedented among anticancer drugs, suggesting that fredericamycin A could be the forerunner of a new class of anticancer drug.
(3) In the first two trimesters they are the forerunners of the immature intermediate villi, whereas in the last trimester the mesenchymal villi are transformed into mature intermediate villi.
(4) "Bean has done to Goldoni what Goldoni did to his forerunners.
(5) Omeprazole and lansoprazole are the forerunners of a group of substituted benzimidazole compounds that block the gastric proton pump.
(6) He was thought to be the forerunner for The Tonight Show after Johnny Carson retired in 1992.
(7) So in that sense I prefer the days of Cathy.” In the 60s and 70s, Loach belonged to small leftist groups: the Socialist Labour League (forerunner of the Workers Revolutionary Party ), the International Socialists , the International Marxist Group, all critical of both western capitalism and the Stalinism of the Soviet Union.
(8) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(9) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(10) The finding of elevated D2 dopamine receptors in schizophrenia in living patients may be the forerunner of a new biochemical approach to psychiatry.
(11) A radiolabeled form of the benzonaphthazephine, SCH39166 was used to characterize the binding of this D1 antagonist in cortex, and an autoradiographic comparison of the localization of [3H]SCH39166 to [3H]SCH23390 (D1 antagonist and forerunner of SCH39166) binding was performed.
(12) Sir Christopher Bland, who was chairman of Trust forerunner the BBC board of governors from 1996-2001, said his advice to Fairhead was to "cancel her subscription to any cuttings agency and grow a second skin".
(13) It may be a forerunner of similar confrontations to come elsewhere.
(14) It is therefore the forerunner of later computer processing developments and, in the words of English Heritage's report: "A uniquely important site, arguably as significant to the information age as Ironbridge is to the industrial revolution."
(15) In South Africa in the 1940s a team headed by Sidney Kark embarked on work in the Pholela region of Natal that became the forerunner of ideas that were later formalized and systematized under the rubric of community oriented primary care.
(16) The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
(17) These educated young women may be forerunners, and an increase in diagphragm use in the general population may be seen in the near future.
(18) It would be easy to knock The X Factor and its forerunners as pop poison, ruining Christmas for everyone between the ages of eight and 80.
(19) After Skorodumov’s death, the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, raided his collection.
(20) When these headaches are recognized as a forerunner to stroke, they may allow an opportunity for preventive treatment.