(v. t.) To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To provide.
(v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had been drawn up following “an extensive consultation process” and schools were “reasonably not expecting any changes in the foreseeable future”.
(2) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(3) Only in the presence of concentric hypertrophy is it possible to foresee the improvement of LV function; LV hypertrophy can be also reduced in concentric hypertrophy, but in the short term the reduction is too small to assume pathophysiologic significance.
(4) Mexico today, and for the foreseeable future, remains a mecca for organised crime.
(5) We foresee a markedly expanded role for this technique in major pulmonary resections, esophageal procedures, and cardiac surgery in the near future.
(6) But it is easier to foresee scenarios in which Italian growth and inflation are even weaker than now projected, and debt ratios keep rising.
(7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(8) Even the gloomiest of predictions about the British exit from the EU do not foresee the collapse of the close cultural ties or military alliance between Washington and London.
(9) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
(10) Undoubtedly, another challenge to the specialty, currently and in the foreseeable future, is the debate over animal rights which began to ferment in the late 1970's, after lying relatively dorment since the 1950's.
(11) Given that private ownership of health care facilities and services is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, central control of the funding of health care will make it possible to regulate the private sector, and bring it into a national health plan to provide health care for all.
(12) The diagnostic workup for basilar impression foresees X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.
(13) For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity,” Abbott said late last year.
(14) If Americans themselves don’t know what their president is planning to do, how can the Chinese know?” Speaking in Taipei, the Taiwan capital, on Tuesday Tsai said that despite her surprise conversation with Trump she did not foresee “major policy shifts in the near future because we all see the value of stability in the region”.
(15) The authors describe a mathematical model which allows to foresee glycosylated hemoglobin variability as a result of alterations of blood glucose equilibrium.
(16) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
(17) Speaking in confidence, three-quarters of these officials admitted that – despite what they say publicly – they could not foresee a return to growth in the near future.
(18) Complete control of epidermal cancer is now a foreseeable reality.
(19) "We need accommodative monetary policy for the foreseeable future," he said.
(20) The young age structure means that the population will continue to increase for the foreseeable future.
Foreseen
Definition:
(p. p.) Provided; in case that; on condition that.
Example Sentences:
(1) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
(2) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
(3) With further research, it is foreseen that this questionnaire may be used by occupational therapists as a part of a screening interview for identifying mothers who may be at risk for failure to provide adequate sensory experiences for their children.
(4) Still, some economists suggest that if the Fed could have foreseen what has ensued in the weeks since it raised rates, it might have reconsidered.
(5) Clinical evaluations were foreseen every 3 months, while endoscopy and hematology, gastrin plasma levels and intra-ocular pressure assessment at the end of the 6th and 12th month.
(6) The natural history of the tumour which includes the growth patterns, the growth rate and the tendency to metastasize may influence the choice of the surgical procedure; surgical intervention might be more or less extensive than previously foreseen.
(7) Hall's work developed in other ways, too, that could not be foreseen back in 1963.
(8) -in the second case, poor indications for selective intubation of the left main bronchus by left upper lobectomy initially foreseen, whereas pneumonectomy was necessary, hypoventilation, anoxia, cardiac inefficacy.
(9) But it was an outcome he could never have foreseen on that summer's night in 1961, as he wandered through the Cliveden gardens towards his place in history.
(10) Few new drugs are available or foreseen for the near future, mefloquine and artemisinine being the leading contenders.
(11) It is foreseen that in the next years the systems for aided decision making will be programmed making use of methods belonging to both categories, and particularly, the expert systems will be planned using both artificial intelligence techniques and mathematical and statistical methods.
(12) Khan could not have foreseen that his own death would mark a turning point, as ordinary citizens finally accepted that a disease that felled one of the country’s most admired doctors had to be real.
(13) Routine use of this technique is not at present foreseen due to the complicated and time consuming nature of the procedure.
(14) On the basis of the revision of the anatomy of this region and looking forward to a widespread use of the Cavitron in neurosurgery, a more radical approach to this lesion is foreseen.
(15) The availability of these new compounds has allowed a better understanding of the selective physiological role of each of the metabolites of testosterone, and to provide the basis for the development of new hormone antagonists to be used in those clinical conditions for which an inhibition of the actions of testosterone is foreseen.
(16) With greater understanding of underlying mechanisms many of the untoward interactions now being increasingly reported might be foreseen and avoided.
(17) So, for example, they want the business cycles that are an inherent affliction of capitalism to be foreseen, planned for, minimized and overcome by government intervention.
(18) Lynn's friends say it would have been beyond her comprehension, having expressed her wishes so clearly and her admiration and love for her parents so fervently, to have foreseen that the mother who tended to her every need for the 17 years of her illness, would be prosecuted for following her wishes and helping her to die.
(19) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(20) Describing himself as disappointed but "entirely unsurprised" by results coming in, Mandelson said: "Nobody could have foreseen the extent to which the whole vote over the last 24 hours has become a referendum on the Liberal Democrats in general, and Nick Clegg in particular."