(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.
Prescience
Definition:
(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I didn’t know that Rachel’s early writing - before she even thought of travelling to the Middle East, from her days as a schoolgirl, through college, to life working at a mental-health centre in her home town of Olympia, Washington - would be similarly fascinating, and contain such elements of chilling prescience.
(2) Arguments of considerable ferocity will arise as to whether a new piece of equipment would have been bought anyway with the risk that the government ends up funnelling billions of dollars to companies to subsidise their profits without achieving any real additional cuts to emissions,” you told parliament, with remarkable prescience.
(3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” With grim prescience, she even talked about how shooting Jewish people displayed attackers’ vulnerability, because it showed they felt unable to sit down and talk.
(4) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(5) With extraordinary prescience he distinguished emotional states associated with the suppression of digestion from those that were accompanied by accelerated gastric secretory and motor function.
(6) With what now looks like great prescience, Labour blogger Dan Hodges responded on Twitter: "Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him.
(7) David Lammy, MP for Tottenham paid tribute to his friend's intellectual range and prescience: "He was one of those 'cut-through' academics that could write in an incredibly erudite, Ivy-league way but who could also explain things in a way that could be understood by the ordinary man and woman.
(8) In general, studies of coagulation proteins under defined conditions have demonstrated the prescience of Davie and Ratnoff and MacFarlane in their proposals of the coagulation cascade.
(9) Writing of gilded age monopolists and robber barons, Twain's prescience is remarkable: he denounces Jay Gould, the financier and speculator, for example, as "the mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country".
(10) If Harriet Harman decided against running because of the stream of vitriol that might be unleashed, well – you can only admire her prescience.
(11) "The first game can give you a picture," Paolo Di Canio said beforehand with some prescience.
(12) Whether through prescience or wild optimism, Lord Porter claims to have foreseen the result of this year’s general election.
(13) Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?
(14) She replied: “The little party always gets smashed!” Former MP for Sheffield Hallam Nick Clegg is testament to Merkel’s prescience on that one, and I would not be in the least surprised if May is in fact attempting to assemble some kind of informal Brexit coalition with Labour, so that when the inevitable leaks about shambolic negotiations arrive on the 6 o’clock news, poor old Jeremy Corbyn will be on hand to take the blame.
(15) But what is clear is that Birkenstock successfully, and with prescience, identified the burgeoning interest in self-improvement through accessorising.
(16) Hence OCSC president Rawlins knew the biggest test of his prescience lay in convincing the local powers-that-be of a public-private funding partnership, along with proving their own financial bona fides.
(17) Brian Baxter writes: With uncharacteristic prescience, Bafta crowned Paul Scofield as best newcomer for his screen debut in That Lady.
(18) While the name FutureDairy is freighted with prescience for an era yet to be reached, it is, in fact, already arriving and transforming the economies and lifestyles of the early adopters.
(19) Gore's prescience Environment journalism has come a long way since 1975 when Geoffrey Lean – then of the Observer, now of the Telegraph – became the first dedicated correspondent.
(20) Supporters of the administration have pointed to the prescience of the speech, while critics argue it has in part become a self-fulfilling prophecy by serving to isolate Tehran and Pyongyang.