(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.
Insight
Definition:
(n.) A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.
(n.) Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
(2) The metabolism of [1,3-14C]benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ) by liver microsomes from control, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats has been investigated in order to gain insights into the effect of mixed function oxidase inducers on the types and levels of specific metabolites as formed in vitro.
(3) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(4) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
(5) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
(6) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(7) Although not common, the disorder is the most frequently diagnosed disturbance of porphyrin metabolism in many countries, and further insight into its unusual pathogenesis may clarify the hepatotoxic effects of the 4 etiologic agents.
(8) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(9) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(10) We document for the first time abnormal microenvironments in thymomas that may offer insights into understanding normal thymic differentiation.
(11) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(12) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(13) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(14) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(15) To gain further insight into the side chain requirement at position 177 that confers maltose recognition, further substitutions of isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, proline, and serine have been made via site-directed mutagenesis.
(16) New insights into the biochemical and cell-biological alterations occurring in articular cartilage during the early phase of osteoarthrosis (OA) have been gained in the past decade by analysing experimentally induced osteoarthrosis in animals, mostly dogs and rabbits, while early phases of OA in humans so far have escaped diagnostic evaluation.
(17) V-HeFT, the first mortality trial in patients with heart failure, has provided important insights regarding trial design, including patient selection and efficacy criteria.
(18) The Guardian’s Jason Burke ( @burke_jason ) has insights into AQAP and al-Qaida in his frequent reportage for the Guardian.
(19) These new observations provide insight into the complex nature of GABAergic neurons and beta-cell GABA in regulation of islet function.
(20) This article will provide the nurse administrator with an insight into the development and implementation of a clinical career advancement program.