(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.
Predestination
Definition:
(n.) The act of predestinating.
(n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.
Example Sentences:
(1) When under the present experimental conditions bleeding takes place into this cellular tissue, it splits without any particular, predestined cleavage plane, although most often close to the fibrous matter of the dura.
(2) Monodisperse suspensions of epidermal cells appear to "implant" and establish small epidermal plaques in the uterus only at sites predestined to accept conceptuses.
(3) This procedure has been applied with prophylactic and therapeutic benefits in mice predestined to develop leukemia and reticulum cell sarcoma.
(4) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
(5) The pathological family-structure seems to reinforce the situation and the existence of inadequate behavior of patients with anorexia nervosa, who are often introverted and predestinated for conditioning.
(6) Phospholipase D (PLD), an enzyme predestined for the preparation of new phospholipids, was isolated from cabbage and purified in a highly efficient way by using a combination of hydrophobic chromatography and a specific calcium effect.
(7) When Chinese premier Li Keqiang meets the Queen this week the protocol will doubtless be spotless, while his trade and investment mission is also predestined to be a success.
(8) Predestination of fiber tracts and alternative proposals to the pedestination theory are considered to explain QRS aberration due to exclusive His bundle lesions.
(9) Although platelets are primarily predestined to exhibit this function, certain pathological conditions can lead to exposure of a procoagulant surface in other cells as well.
(10) In order to manifest such feelings through concrete actions,” he said, “we have engraved in our hearts the histories of suffering of the people in Asia as our neighbours.” But he added: “We must not let our children, grandchildren, and even further generations to come, who have nothing to do with the war, be predestined to apologise.
(11) High sensitivity range of iodide concentration and simplicity of performance predestinate described method for epidemiological studies in iodide deficiency regions.
(12) Treading in the footsteps of the late Samuel Huntington, these vulgar Huntingtonians suggest that Ukraine's eastern, Orthodox cultural legacy somehow condemns it to democratic failure, while Poland's western, Catholic heritage predestined it for democratic success.
(13) The data illustrate that: (i) primary stimulated cells predestined to produce IgA anti-LPS antibodies home mainly to the intestine, while cells predestined to anti-fimbrial antibody production have a greater tendency to populate the mammary gland; (ii) after repeated antigen stimulation and maturation of the immune response the cells are directed from the mammary gland to the intestine.
(14) By demolishing the idea that Europe is predestined for “ever closer union”, Grexit would actually make it easier for the prime minister to sell continued membership to the British.
(15) There is no predestined level for the goal of therapy.
(16) After studying Vogt's fate maps, Spemann wrote (in 1938) that "the question which at once calls for an answer is whether this pattern of presumptive primordia in the beginning gastrula is the expression of a real difference of these parts, whether they are already more or less predestined or 'determined' for their ultimate fate, or whether they are still indifferent and will not receive their determination until a later time."
(17) The chancellor, Angela Merkel, has argued that her birthplace, a wealthy port city and a “beacon of free trade”, was “almost predestined” to host the gathering of the world’s leading industrialised and developing economies.
(18) The large percentage of histopathological findings confirms, that the appendix--being a rudimentary lymphatic organ--appears to be predestined for inflammatory changes.
(19) On the other hand this modern noninvasive, picture yielding and ever reproducible method is predestined for objective confirmation of the late complaint after maxillary sinus operation.
(20) The most important advantage of wound-immunization is the speed and ease with which it can be administered, a fact which predestines it for vaccination in emergency cases.