What's the difference between foreseen and unforeseeable?

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."

Unforeseeable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being foreseen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other, less frequent toxic effects, namely aplastic anaemia or fatal hepatitis, may be ascribed to unforeseeable idiosyncratic reactions.
  • (2) Further development in manual suturing with reference to security from failure and reduction of the expenditure of time is unforeseeable.
  • (3) "I'm absolutely clear it's virtually unforeseeable I would ever need to use water cannon.
  • (4) Any great advances in reproductive technology are very likely to be controlled and commandeered by the state with all kinds of unforeseeable consequences.
  • (5) While the former is usually unforeseeable, the latter is known and accepted by both physician and patient.Recent statistics estimate that about one quarter of pregnant women have had a radiographic experience during the pregnancy, either for obstetrical reasons or in the course of medical and dental examinations.
  • (6) The eradication of pertussis as a worldwide disease is unforeseeable for the present and immediate future.
  • (7) These factors and the evolution of the disorders are often unforeseeable, and render the patient's re-insertion problematical.
  • (8) This procedure gives good control of the herniated organs, allows easy intestinal resection and good management of unforeseeable situations.
  • (9) Yet it took unforeseeable dimensions and became one of the defining moments in recent Brazilian history.
  • (10) The subjects needed to see targets of unforeseeable velocity for no more than 300 ms in order to develop a residual velocity that was characteristic of the given target velocity.
  • (11) This multifactorials genesis makes very unforeseeable, in each case, the long term result of surgery in the form of hypothyroidism.
  • (12) The considerable variability of elimination rate observed among patients (extreme values of half-life and clearance differ 10-fold) mainly account for the unforeseeability of plasma levels obtainable with a given posology.
  • (13) Nevertheless, unforeseeable complications may occur which obscure the results.
  • (14) The unforeseeable course, which is always severe in these tumours, is characterised by the frequency of local relapse.
  • (15) The physician is not responsible for unforeseeable injuries to a patient's health, unless he had failed to inform her fully about the operation's possible consequences.
  • (16) Priority is given to the following research trends, the results of which may significantly affect the efficiency of health- and preventive care rendered to workers: development and control of new methods for early diagnosis of health lesions prior to clinical pathology and prior to the occurrence of work disablement, whether temporary or durable; development and enforcement of methods allowing to single out workers susceptible to the effects of particular environmental hazards with the aim of avoiding unforeseeable health effects of occupational exposure.
  • (17) The course of the disease is unforeseeable, certain large hematomas may become reabsorbed without sequelae.
  • (18) SIDS is in most cases unforeseeable and unavoidable.
  • (19) There is also no requirement under the act for them to destroy data once it has been accessed, meaning that these associations can be revealed long after they were initially accessed, and for unforeseeable purposes.
  • (20) Separately, a group of Italian MPs had urged the House of Lords to vote down the proposals, saying that mitochondrial donation “could have uncontrollable and unforeseeable consequences” and would inevitably “affect the human species as a whole”.

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