(n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
(n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
(n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
(n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said a two-and-half-year analysis by the government's Foresight programme on the implications for coastal defences had more impact in the corridors of power than any other research on the effects of climate change that he presented.
(2) One is over whether, with more foresight and better planning, an awful lot of money and heartache could have been saved.
(3) If TfL had wanted to enforce the rules and had the inclination and foresight to do so, we would not be in this position now,” Griffin says.
(4) Nobel's foresight is a reminder to us all that peace must be created, maintained, and advanced, and it is indeed possible for one individual to have an extraordinary impact.
(5) Out of this foresight came both formal and nonformal educational offerings.
(6) Has Piqué even had the foresight to write a book and make the title a hashtag?
(7) The first part of the mostly theoretical foresight will be followed by the attempt of a practical method and of preliminary results supposing a future simplification in the sense of a pantomographic method according to Paatero for the measurement of the alveolar regression.
(8) The deepening division between rich and poor (or salary between chief executive and blue-collar worker), the continuing appeal of affirmative action and multiculturalism to liberals and the relative absence of democratic social foresight and planning all pointed to basic and unresolved dilemmas.
(9) The difficulties inherent in planning and implementing a program in another country are numerous; however, with foresight and ample time for planning, the benefits to both students and faculty in the host and home institutions can outweigh the drawbacks.
(10) While interpretation of transference is neither a panacea nor uniquely mutative with adolescents and young adults, the authors believe it has an important role to play in expressive psychotherapy if used judiciously and with foresight.
(11) The threat of new drugs being available via the internet emerged in Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs , the 2005 review from Foresight, the government's future thinktank.
(12) Rather than intelligent foresight, or a difference in the mindset of those in power, he suggests the Danish capital’s avoidance of major carriageways is down to good fortune.
(13) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
(14) But it is Japan, which in 1912 had the foresight to donate thousands of cherry trees to the US, that wields the greatest cultural influence in Washington through its embassy.
(15) If foresighted leaders do not counter these voices then wrong will prevail from the inaction of good people.
(16) That evening, once again with a large plate of Celto-Iberian goatmeat in front of me, I raise a glass to Doña Pakyta and toast her foresight in preserving this stark and hypnotic landscape.
(17) Leslie says: “The primary problem was the banking crisis, and if you’d had the foresight that the banking crisis was coming, it stands to reason you could have braced yourself more for that crisis – and that obviously applies in fiscal terms, too.” Neat and softly spoken, 42-year-old Leslie knows what it’s like to lose a parliamentary seat: elected to Westminster in 1997 at the tender age of 24, for the seat of Shipley, in West Yorkshire, and served as a junior minister from 2001.
(18) Professor Sandy Thomas, director of Foresight's "Tackling Obesities: future choices" report, also dismissed the idea of a pre-watershed ban.
(19) Foresight , a UK government research body, says that by 2060 there will be 192 million more people living in vulnerable urban coastal floodplains, mainly in Asia.
(20) These require maturity and creativity and foresight.
Improvidence
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was Lindsay's misfortune to serve as mayor of America's biggest city at the height of the urban crisis brought on by the coincidence of racial conflict, labour unrest, rashly generous liberal reforms, fiscal improvidence and political confusion.
(2) The question this raised for aficionados of supreme court procedure is whether the court might use a device called "dismissing a case as improvidently granted".
(3) A minimal theoretical training is essential in order to prevent delusions caused by an improvident autodidactic approach.