How To Use Foregone In A Sentence
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This is the very definition of obstructionism: To delay a foregone conclusion for the sake of a petty protest.
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Since the loan is for $10,000, it is our understanding that the foregone interest would not represent taxable income to him.
Christianity Today
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This does not include indirect costs such as earnings foregone.
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The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion.
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There was a reason why they had foregone the privilege of having a singing canary in the dock.
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The outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion.
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Then he went away more disheartened than before and returned to his own house where he saw his wife sitting, for she had foregone him thither by the souterrain.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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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Maybe we can feel the chiliasm coming, but it's not here yet — we still have to play out the last minutes of the game even if the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
Spin
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Unfortunately, public works employees and clean-water advocates rarely enjoy such a luxury, and recent debate has focused on the final step in sewage processing, chlorine disinfection, which is no longer the foregone conclusion it once was.
Chlorine Treatment Seen as Risky
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His departure was considered a foregone conclusion since the lifeless Trojans were playing uninspired ball.
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‘These are accounts of people's lives,’ she said, vital for shedding light on foregone times.
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Would you go along with that or is that sort of preordaining something that is not a foregone conclusion?
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Races Heat Up in Wake of New Hampshire Primary - February 5, 2000
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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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Some commentators and businessmen have suggested that the successful privatization of the National Freight Corporation was a foregone conclusion.
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It was a foregone conclusion that I would end up in the same business as him.
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MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway???
Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
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When all a foregone conclusion, I pray for what.
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dreams of foregone times
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Once the bridge fell, the battle was a foregone conclusion.
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Its readoption is in no way 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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The outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion.
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This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages.
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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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The election result was a foregone conclusion.
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The name Tiberius, I hope, will keep, howe'er he hath foregone The dignity and power.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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In truth, there is another aspect to this kind of soothsaying, and that is the element of creating excitement for an event where the outcome runs the risk of being a study in foregone conclusions.
Another Gaze into the Kristol Ball
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This produces a conservative estimate of annual earnings of $11,466 in 2001, which partially offset earnings foregone.
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The portents are that, despite all the problems, the outcome is a foregone conclusion and he will not need to call in the removal men next year for a flit to his new £3.5m gaff.
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The result gave the lie to cynics who suggested the result was a foregone conclusion.
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He says that it is a foregone conclusion that Labour will win the next election.
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What's that, foregone conclusion then you reckon sir ?' said the barman. " Arsenal without a chance?
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The eventual outcome is a foregone conclusion - overqualified employees holding jobs they find boring, unchallenging, and unrewarding.
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For example, those who suggest that Mr Haughey's restoration throughout the 1970s was inevitable and that his election as party leader was a foregone conclusion for a long time before it happened, are being simply unhistorical.
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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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Confrontation might be a foregone conclusion, milord.
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Most German commentators now regard the dismembering of the Kirch empire as a foregone conclusion, leaving other sports and TV companies across Europe facing an uncertain future.
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THAT the author of the said work applied himself to his task in malice prepense and with wickedness aforethought; a fact which, your Dedicator contends, is sufficiently demonstrated, by his assuming the name of Quiz, which, your Dedicator submits, denotes a foregone conclusion, and implies an intention of quizzing.
Sketches by Boz
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The outcome of theelection is a foregone conclusion.
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The outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion.
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Many beneficent projects have to be foregone if sufficient funds are lacking.
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Ne + cedere is the root = “not” + “withdraw” — in other words the etymological premise of the idea in the word is a PRESUMPTION of deference or cession of power, which cession or deference is foregone or abandoned ONLY in the “necessary” case and then only to the degree “proper” or “belonging to” the isolated occasion or circumstance giving rise to the necessity that overcomes the presumption.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The proper understanding of “Necessary and Proper”:
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The result of the match was a foregone conclusion.
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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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But doubtless, also, the masters are, in many cases, the object of a merely interested cultus, sitting aloft like Louis Quatorze, giving and receiving flattery and favour; and the dogs, like the majority of men, have but foregone their true existence and become the dupes of their ambition.
Memories and Portraits
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The result of the match was a foregone conclusion.
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So as when Vides understood of Berreo and that he had made entrance into that territory, and foregone his desire and hope, it was verily thought that Vides practised with Morequito to hinder and disturb Berreo in all he could, and not to suffer him to enter through his seignory, nor any of his companies; neither to victual, nor guide them in any sort.
The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49
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It seemed like a foregone conclusion that Tiger Woods would win the tournament.
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At what point in the health care debate do we move from heated discussions of the virtues of Policy A (Employer Based Insurance) and Policy B (Public Option/Medicare for all) -- which both suck and where the sole distinction is whether your overinsurance is provided by tax dollars or foregone wages -- and move to a discussion of Policy C (something that doesn't suck)?
Great Health Care Article
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The gathering broke up and everyone said the verdict was a foregone conclusion.
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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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Mostly, though, it follows the romcom formula right through to its series of misunderstandings and foregone conclusions.
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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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The eventual outcome is a foregone conclusion - overqualified employees holding jobs they find boring, unchallenging, and unrewarding.
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The complete collapse of the Kuomintang troops in the Northeast then became a foregone conclusion.
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We could've foregone that specific stop, I'm sure.
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Wolfe's op-ed stem-winder was widely seen as decisive in sending the Foster scheme to defeat last month, but the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has rejected so much new construction within the Upper East Side Historic District of late, the outcome of the hearing was already a foregone conclusion.
Martin Filler: Uncle Tom's Crabbin'
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Foregone conclusions don't make for compulsive viewing.
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Most voters believe the result is 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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The result of the election seems to be a foregone conclusion.
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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 (if you're playing solo).
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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 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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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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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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Planning gain is, by definition, precluded in trend planning so that some social benefits are also foregone.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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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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They were an unstoppable juggernaut, a team built specifically for the postseason because the regular season was a foregone conclusion.
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The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion.
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They never had to plan their shared parenting; it was a foregone conclusion.
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The outcome of the vote is 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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We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed.
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The outcome of theelection is a foregone conclusion.
