Indeed, it appears that the dispatch was a foregone conclusion rather than the result of a detailed survey. |
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The public defenders representing Workman at trial told him his guilt was a foregone conclusion. |
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The force of character is cumulative. All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this. |
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Although it is not a foregone conclusion that patients with dysplasia will develop cancer, dysplasia remains the best indicator of cancer risk. |
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He says that it is a foregone conclusion that Labour will win the next election. |
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We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed. |
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It is an election devoid of drama and excitement as the result seems a foregone conclusion. |
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To stay up any later would have been pointless, the results almost a foregone conclusion. |
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And by now it's a foregone conclusion that these two stars will generate a certain special something anytime they're paired together. |
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Yet that those gods whose inevitable death Walcott laments have lost their sacral force is not at all a foregone conclusion. |
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The gathering broke up and everyone said the verdict was a foregone conclusion. |
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Even if short-term inhibition of GDP growth is on occasions necessary, growth foregone is nevertheless the very essence of social misfortune. |
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The result gave the lie to cynics who suggested the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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Mostly, though, it follows the romcom formula right through to its series of misunderstandings and foregone conclusions. |
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They were an unstoppable juggernaut, a team built specifically for the postseason because the regular season was a foregone conclusion. |
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Although the votes are still being counted the results are a foregone conclusion. |
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Therefore, bemoaning the past or longing for a return of foregone days in some way denies the person one already is. |
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They knew pretty early on the result was a foregone conclusion, Labour were too far ahead to be caught. |
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But by that time, Smith and Joyce had posted a stand of 100 and the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion. |
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But with Liverpool likely to field a weakened team to face an obdurate Burnley side buoyed by back-to-back wins and clean sheets, it may not be such a foregone conclusion. |
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But since global markets are not static and needs and priorities always shift with time, trade diversification is a foregone necessity for any economy. |
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The decision as to whether this hare-brained scheme goes ahead is currently with the First Minister but the council is behaving as if it is a foregone conclusion. |
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We stood apart in ideas but together in mourning of a foregone moment, of black communities with a long gone connectedness although just as much disagreement. |
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Must we just tag along to the daily chores of a stringent society, which has turned itself so vulnerable to the traditional boundaries of a foregone age? |
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Sport is never that engaging when the result is a foregone conclusion. |
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There was still 23 minutes left but the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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Certain moral decisions and attitudes are foregone conclusions. |
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In this case our hero is played by Hugh Grant, who seems to have foregone, as of Bridget Jones's Diary, his stammering goofiness for a more solidified, slightly caddish charm. |
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To be preoccupied with equality under such circumstances is to be preoccupied with a foregone conclusion. |
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If part-time employment is a choice, more leisure associated with part-time work should be valued in terms of the wage foregone. |
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It should have been a foregone conclusion that a predatory offender like Toft would have to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. |
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Indeed, to members of the Yes campaign in the final days, victory was a foregone conclusion. |
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However, the referendum which took place in the Republic of Ireland recently has reminded us that ratification is not a foregone conclusion. |
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Although the decentralisation of euro markets is a reality, their segmentation should obviously not be seen as a foregone conclusion. |
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But we cannot carry on endlessly, restating well-known positions as in a ritual exercise with a foregone conclusion. |
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Some now refer to green shoots as if the global recovery is a foregone conclusion or even as if sustainable growth had already begun. |
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Far from a foregone conclusion, poverty is the result of man-made inequalities and injustices. |
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That the relationship between the different poles of power should sink into hostility in the near future is no foregone conclusion. |
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The Court stated that procedural chaos arising out of multiple proceedings was not a foregone conclusion. |
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His close involvement in the anniversary year was not a foregone conclusion, however. |
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Moreover, judge Abdel-Rahman made statements indicating that the guilt of Saddam Hussein was a foregone conclusion. |
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This change must, of course, also affect State aids: the principle of their incompatibility with competition is not a foregone conclusion. |
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While this is generally true in terms of the process and delivery results, it is not a foregone conclusion in terms of longer term outcomes. |
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Mayoral candidates from the major parties say the fraught contest, to be held on Thursday, is far from a foregone conclusion. |
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Just a few years ago, when Bingu wa Mutharika was at his most eccentric, this was not a foregone conclusion. |
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Never mind that Tyson was technically superior in all areas, the fear factor made the result a foregone conclusion. |
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In regard to own funds, the cost to a company is investment interest foregone. |
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It is also possible that savings in the other components of the telecommunications contract were foregone. |
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Even if these companies hadn't been active in Canada, they can claim foregone profits. |
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These foregone earnings constitute one important element of both the social and private costs of higher education. |
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That does not include the costs of provincial programs and private sector insurance plans, or the lost income and foregone taxes. |
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A major potential contribution to world growth and global economic recovery might thus be foregone. |
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This does however not imply that efficiency goals and competitiveness should be foregone. |
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This does not include indirect costs such as earnings foregone. |
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As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion. |
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In his home state, Brian Sandoval is a foregone lock to be reelected governor. |
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Critics were so certain that Bryan Cranston would win that it seemed a foregone conclusion. |
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It was by no means a foregone conclusion that the UK would get involved. |
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And in the end if a kidney stone was all you had, would you, looking back, have foregone any of the tests? |
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Batting doesn't take a lot of mastering and, once you have, you can have a good slog at the fielding sides' expense, turning the game into a foregone conclusion. |
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This opportunity of current output or income is foregone in the expectation that education will increase the productive capacity of students in the future and hence future output. |
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Estimates of revenue foregone by industries as a result of counterfeiting, pirating and other infringement of intellectual property rights vary widely, but there is no doubt that the value involved is significant. |
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Moreover, the deal must be ratified by all 28 government chiefs in the council of ministers, by no means a foregone conclusion: Greece's new ruling party Syriza has warned it has no intention of approving the pact. |
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It is sometimes assumed that the time of young children has no economic value and that the concept of earnings foregone applies only to secondary school or higher education students and not to those of primary school age. |
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As far as physiognomy goes, the winners protest that they would as lief have foregone the double points, and the money. |
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It is clear as the case proceeds that foregone conclusions riddled with holes have been reached in a bid to conceal and expiate the real culprits. |
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The outcome of this interspecies warfare is a foregone conclusion, however: battered but unbowed, the mice are defeating the humans. Out in its isolation, Gough is home to animals found nowhere else. |
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But, not to worry, the outcome is a foregone conclusion: in the end, Caesar is a nervous wreck and our friends all sit down for their traditional banquet! |
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In fact, I understand that in many cases, crown prosecutors do not even pursue bail hearings because it is seen as a foregone conclusion that the accused will be released. |
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So I believe that we should not see war as a foregone conclusion. |
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In such a case, the opportunity cost may be seen as the cost of a contribution to achieving the wider objective, rather than as simply a financial benefit foregone. |
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In particular, I would like to tell you how much we appreciate the great professionalism and skill you have displayed in bringing us to the point we have reached today, something which was not a foregone conclusion. |
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In the Middle East, as elsewhere, war is not a foregone conclusion: the peoples in the region aspire to balanced cooperation with the rest of the world, respectful of their histories and their identities. |
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Should the leading rider drop down below the measuring line he shall be relegated unless he does so involuntarily and unless, at that moment, the result may be considered a foregone conclusion. |
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For the aboriginal people, the cost is equal to the gap between their earned income and that of the rest of the population, minus the income taxes foregone and financial assistance from government. |
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He was searching out these things, not arguing foregone conclusions. |
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The value of leisure per hour is measured by its opportunity cost, i.e., the wage foregone because a person engages in leisure rather than in paid work. |
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While it certainly is a possibility, it is not a foregone conclusion. |
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The acquisition process is often long and complex and, notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the organizations involved, their success is unfortunately not a foregone conclusion. |
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Not least because of the international character of our company, it is a foregone conclusion for us to provide assistance wherever people, and especially children, are in need all over the world. |
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This is pioneering work in fields which have barely been touched and which require new methodologies, so the results are by no means a foregone conclusion. |
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The high cost of this situation is not just one we can attach to the labour market and to our economy in terms of foregone productivity of millions of workers. |
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To be sure, Republican rule of the Senate is not a foregone conclusion. |
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Moreover, revenue otherwise due is foregone and a benefit is conferred on the recipient by lowering the duties payable or fully exempting him from paying the import duties. |
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If zones are not homogenous, then aid rates based on average yield foregone will significantly overcompensate farmers in low-yield localities, and undercompensate farmers in high-yield localities. |
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The AssoDistil stressed that the beneficiaries of the measure notified are not known and it is not a foregone conclusion that they will be the same as those which benefited under the previous measure. |
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The way she tells it, a career in filmmaking was practically a foregone conclusion. |
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An album's worth of brand new New York Dolls compositions, as unlikely as it may have seemed in 2003, was a foregone conclusion after wildly successful festival and live dates that spanned the past two years. |
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The balance-over-the-cycle target is quite defensible on analytical grounds as it imposes no foregone opportunity costs so long as it can be implemented successfully. |
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Having to optimize the two clearing systems SIC and euroSIC became a foregone conclusion since the effort of maintaining and operating two practically identical software libraries would have been excessively high. |
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However it is a well known fact that the trial given to Henry Vane as to his own person, and defence of his own part played for the Long Parliament was a foregone conclusion. |
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The accused must not have foregone some safe avenue of escape. |
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