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foregone
1. ‘It was not a foregone conclusion
2. ‘What do you mean not a foregone conclusion?’
3. ‘Not always a foregone conclusion this time of year
4. It had always appeared a foregone conclusion, at any rate
5. “That’s alright Sir I never expected anything different it was a foregone conclusion from the start
6. So, over a thirty-year period the foregone interest of giving up existing assets to pay for those appliances is much greater than the benefits of saved mortgage interest
7. Among other claims foregone by Ingalls were huge Unabsorbed Overhead and Non-Recurring Engineering costs that they had incurred upfront but which were to have been amortized over nine, not five ships
8. Although a formal offer was not extended by the close of business Friday, everyone knew it was a foregone conclusion because Gilbraith and Stevenson had the Washington Group’s corporate travel office re-write my plane ticket for a Monday return and extended my stay in the Holiday Inn Express across business I-90 for the weekend
9. ―The vast majority of spiritual seekers are motivated by desire, so the failure of their search is a foregone conclusion, as is amply evidenced by mankind‘s history of near-total inability to find the one thing that can never be lost
10. Who have foregone the good of intellect
11. Fortunately, the swinging operating suites were built in standard sized cargo modules, and their most common mode of operation was on the surface of the planet where gravity was a foregone conclusion
12. Sam smiled; to him the answer was a foregone conclusion
13. Upon the urging of Andy and his men, they’d foregone a search
14. “Yes, to the point Mr Rudolph,” he replied remembering previous confrontations with the detective and knowing there were no foregone conclusions to this meeting
15. However, it was a definitely a foregone conclusion that most likely, she didn’t - at least, not completely
16. selected but had foregone
17. From what man has wrought in our world, isn’t it a foregone conclusion that woman can’t possibly be any greater an evil than the originator of war, rape, and suicidal destruction of one’s own habitat?
18. Their new electronic funds transfer network linked nine countries together, and was rumored to be saving the bank over $1M a day in interest foregone on funds in transit
19. � The �I� just judges, and all the judgments seem foregone conclusions
20. At her father’s insistence Simla had foregone her jerkin and
21. The girl nodded as if it had been a foregone conclusion to her
22. Crying was a foregone conclusion--never again would there come a thought related to Scott that didn't bring tears
23. Crying was, safe to say, a foregone conclusion--never again would there come a thought related to Scott that didn't bring tears
24. " She then smiled upon me in an absent state of mind, and asked me if I liked the taste of orange-flower water? As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension
25. For instance when the evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely in people's mind though, it goes without saying, not contributing a copper or pinning his faith absolutely to its dictums, some of which wouldn't exactly hold water, he at the outset in principle at all events was in thorough sympathy with peasant possession as voicing the trend of modern opinion (a partiality, however, which, realising his mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of) and even was twitted with going a step farther than Michael Davitt in the striking views he at one time inculcated as a backtothelander, which was one reason he strongly resented the innuendo put upon him in so barefaced a fashion by our friend at the gathering of the clans in Barney Kiernan's so that he, though often considerably misunderstood and the least pugnacious of mortals, be it repeated, departed from his customary habit to give him (metaphorically) one in the gizzard though, so far as politics themselves were concerned, he was only too conscious of the casualties invariably resulting from propaganda and displays of mutual animosity and the misery and suffering it entailed as a foregone conclusion on fine young fellows, chiefly, destruction of the fittest, in a word
26. War wasn’t a foregone conclusion—Saddam Hussein could have complied and shown inspectors everything they wanted to see
27. Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined, when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together? Thoughts like these—and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowledge or define—threw an awe about the child, as she came onward
28. The result was a foregone conclusion
29. The conviction was a foregone conclusion
30. One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion
31. ’ And now, according to Sergey Ivanovitch’s account, the people had foregone this privilege they had bought at such a costly price
32. Whenever two former Confederates met anywhere, there was never but one topic of conversation, and where a dozen or more gathered together, it was a foregone
33. It provided that the coupon rate on the 6% first-mortgage bonds should be reduced to 3% during the four years 1933–1936, restored to 6% for 1937–1938, and advanced to 7% for 1939–1951, thus making up the 12% foregone in the earlier years
34. Or he can be conservative, and refuse to pay more than a minor premium for possibilities as yet unproved; but in that case he must be prepared for the later contemplation of golden opportunities foregone
35. “NOW YOU WILL die,” he said to me matter-of-factly, as if the deed were a foregone conclusion
36. Santi shrugged, as if he thought it was a foregone conclusion
37. If the stock rallies, then it’s possible that the profit foregone from not buying the stock is greater than the premium received and kept
38. He could have foregone the application of a trailing stop, instead relying on the courage of his initial convictions that no stop was necessary because his position size was manageable
39. This was not a foregone conclusion at all times, so it is little wonder that realized equity returns were boosted by the absence of catastrophes and then by a repricing effect by the end of the 20th century, when the perceived likelihood of catastrophe had fallen
40. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot
41. Unless wearing a lifejacket or travelling in a craft equipped with shark repellent, the risk is great to anyone in the water, but it is not a foregone conclusion that shark attack will occur
42. Three highly advertised “personalities” tried to weather out a veritable emaciation of drama, and the result was, of course, a foregone conclusion
