How To Use Foresight In A Sentence

Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
It's about time these highways officers had some foresight or common sense.
It was an example of the authorities' lack of foresight .
Miss Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Perhaps one could justify riches as the reward for the skill, diligence, foresight and cunning of the original creator.

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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, in proving foresight may be vain; the best-laid schemes o 'mice an' men gang aft agley, an 'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy. Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns
But Rames also wore a sword, that sword hafted with the golden crocodile which Pharaoh had given him long ago -- that sword which Asti the foresighted had seen red with royal blood. Morning Star
On the one hand, planters have been depicted as perennial hotspurs - hard drinking, fast-living men whose hair-trigger tempers demonstrated little foresight and generated even less systematic thought.
He showed incredible foresight, tolerance and patience in trying to resolve problems, which was something my father had. Times, Sunday Times
If the employer requires protection he should have the foresight to include an express covenant in the employment contract.
He was later criticised for his lack of foresight.
Sharpe aimed through the bars of the balcony's balustrade, lining the notch in the rifle's backsight and the leaf of the foresight on Aksel Bang's face. Sharpe's Prey
This is the free grace and favour of God towards the man Christ Jesus — predestinating, designing, and taking him into actual union with the person of the Son, without respect unto, or foresight of, any precedent dignity or merit in him, 1 Pet. i. Christologia
Several foresighted assumptive ideas and proposals to plant and utilize each variety of camellia oleifera are put forward.
Whether or not human groups make functional enough, foresightful enough decisions at any given time, we have the unique capacity to do so. Education For Sanity
These are exciting times which must be matched by political foresight and resolute action. Times, Sunday Times
This latest stone circle, constructed outside the village of Child Okeford, near Blandford, is the work of a small group of foresighted individuals from the Salisbury and Glastonbury areas.
Brent tragically lost his life after the agreement was reached, and as I listened to Deirdre, I wondered that if we had foresighted politicians in Ohio years before -- public officials who could see that there was a gap in the law and that something needed to be done -- this young man could still be with us today. Wayne Pacelle: It's Wild to Allow Dangerous Exotic Animals as Pets
This lack of foresight and thoughtless preparation for implementation can clearly have a negative impact on teachers and students, as demonstrated in this study.
Her family's courage and foresight were rewarded. The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
Who knows, perhaps his opposition to nuclear weapons in 1983 might soon be viewed as evidence of great foresight and moral integrity? Times, Sunday Times
In 1909, these foresighted women created the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute and hired a neurologist, William Healy, M.D., to be its first director.
By a well-known figure of speech, called metonymy, we use a word denoting the means by which we accomplish anything to denote the end accomplished; we exercise care over anything by means of foresight, and indicate that care by the word foresight. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
Confidence was increasing that men, through foresight and effective action, could ameliorate their existence and even prolong their lives.
And while a teenager has the foresight of a flea, her powers of humbug-detection are finely honed.
I applaud the Minister's foresight in helping mothers to prepare for an independent future.
His foresight and vast knowledge of the river and its tides paid off. Times, Sunday Times
Brownlee revealed his lack of foresight by oggling some L-bent HDMI cables, and admired a Portal-style oviposited recycling egg. Boing Boing
Vercingetorix knew not that Caesar, with his usual foresight, had summoned and joined to his legions a great number of horsemen from the German tribes roving over the banks of the Rhine, with which he had taken care to keep up friendly relations. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society. Climate Progress
We will conclude this second part by giving a brief notice of some of those who, in the early days of aerostation, fell martyrs to their devotion to the new cause, and sometimes victims to their own want of foresight and their inexperience. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
As a restaurant they had had the foresight to stock up with office supplies.
It therefore supplied what all industrialists desired, namely, a degree of foresight, through its ability to cost for future changes.
I'm not gifted with Promethean foresight, and emotional involvement makes one a poor judge. THE THORN BIRDS
The inefficiency and lack of foresight in dealing with Italy's well-known earthquake risk was "desolating", Barberi said. Undefined
I want to thank Brian Gelling for his foresight and astuteness in handling the negotiations.
I'd like to add to our understanding of that situation by looking, in hindsight, at what was predicted with foresight before the war.
The only notable place this foresight is applied in the U.S., as I see it, is for our formidable war machine. Mixed Conservation Message at cvillenews.com
Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing. So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
And I'd especially like to congratulate their managers, who had the foresight to let this happen.
It's results are at odds with the prevailing theory, because proponents contend that the prevailing theory is not up to the challenge of producing certain effects without front-loading by a foresighted system/mechanism. A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer)
The government's policies show a remarkable lack of foresight.
Will the people that care, and whom I want to care, exhibit such foresight and planning?
This distinction is not limited to purely speculative notions of truth and falsehood, but rather emphasizes practical moral action and the foresight that makes it possible.
Her courage and foresight made her a global sensation. The Sun
We must invest with courage and foresight to prosper in the future. Times, Sunday Times
Art is the expression of ideas - some of them very foresighted - of lofty ideals, of political insights, and of deepfelt emotions. Times, Sunday Times
I'm more concerned about the odd bod with his backsight and foresight aligned, and the first pressure already on his trigger. DISPLACED PERSON
Their monuments stand in testimony to their beliefs and even today one is wonderstruck at their foresight.
I can only hope that the management of this institution is humane and foresighted enough to do so.
[W] hereas there is no other felicity of beasts but the enjoying of their quotidian food, ease, and lusts, as having little or no foresight ... man observes how one event has been produced by another, and remembers in them antecedence and consequence," declared Hobbes. Andrew Belonsky: What the BP Oil Spill Tells Us About Human Nature
‘I knew that was the skill I was going to need,’ he says, as though such foresight is perfectly normal for eight year olds.
The whole point of Darwinian ethology is to show that behaviours which would show foresight if we did them and could give reasons for them may evolve before reason and thus show no foresight at all.
I'm amazed that seventeen years later I was able to identify most of those autographs (thanks to some foresighted diligence and the wonders of technology) and to reconstruct the trip based on the schedule within the program.
Such notions are myopic and without foresight.
Was it a lack of mental ability, foresight and imagination that was needed many years ago to regenerate what was once a fine city?
The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
Reacting to interest rate drop in Nigeria during Afripol quarterly round table conference, Mr. Vincent Ogboi, Economic and financial analyst on African affairs at Afripol organization said: "Nigeria's Central bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido's economic foresight andpolitical will to slash the Central bank to bank lending rate is refreshing and a positive development and of course a great shot in the arm for Africa's largest oil based economy. EXPERTS BACK CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA ON REDUCING INTEREST RATE
On top of that, the United States reaped a great harvest of German ideas about aerial technology with its foresighted Operation Paperclip at the end of the war.
The now of Gilgamesh is a present with past and future; when Inanna courts him, he applies hindsight and foresight, listing her trail of jilted and cuckolded lovers as he rejects her. Archive 2007-03-01
Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria. Europe's Problem Is Not Germany's High Productivity
The accumulation of fortunes through foresight, unusual capacity, energy, thrift, and native honorable shrewdness is in itself no crime. Philanthropy
He had had the foresight to bring in the washing before the rain started.
The more successful a new venture is, the more dangerous the lack of financial foresight. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Assuming the E.P.A. Puts its intrusive restrictions on the economy coupled with cap and trade legislation with health reform that bloats the deficit, I, along with every other american willing put a little foresight into what seems to be happening to our way of life since this administration took power can easily tell that we wont be seeing any truly good news for some time to come, if ever again. Obama: 'Economy is growing again'
But politics requires foresight and common sense.
The passage of the St. Bernard was a triumph of organisation, foresight, and good management; as a military exploit it involved none of the danger, none of the suffering, none of the hazard, which gave such interest to the campaign of Massena and Suvaroff. A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
This is a point used primarily to serve as a reference elevation to move the instrument, Both a foresight and backsight are taken on the point. Chapter 10
Ideals of the good enable us to take up the standpoint of the prudent and foresighted individual, concerned to harmonize current desires with one another and with the self's future needs and interests.
His imaginative commercial foresight brought incalculable longterm benefits to Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
They employed a unique combination of theoretic analysis, practical grasp, and imaginative foresight.
Ihave been annoyed for days now by my lack of foresight in not being a member of the police force. Times, Sunday Times
With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. The Highly Effective Detective by Richard Yancey: Book summary
He had a chance to measure the motive forces of men; their qualities of character; their foresight; their tenacity of purpose.
And good for Opie and Andy (quite possibly the gayest names in showbiz), for having the foresight not to call the assaulted and raped women in question, nappy headed hoes. Archive 2007-05-01
He plans well, because planning is anticipating and therefore part of his pleasure, and also because his professional training has put him in the habit of forearming by means of foresight.
(a) An improvement in organisation or in foresight which diminishes 'frictional' unemployment; The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Were it possible to bring about the decentralisation which is to-day preoccupying minds lacking in foresight, the achievement would promptly have for consequence the most sanguinary disorders. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Has it occurred to anyone that a US military force's field positions might be covertly mapped by an opposing force with the foresight to invest in a pie-tin and an RFID reader?
Luckily I'd had the foresight to get in plenty of food.
They really should tell people to use a bit of foresight about their future careers when they are in like, year eight.
-- How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! Emma
A wise and well-tempered architect, incorporating experience and foresight, is essential to conduct the volatile dynamics of collaboration toward the goal of raising an edifice. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
No one, certainly, has perfect foresight into the uncertain future.
Grant Park's beginnings actually date all the way back to 1835, when foresighted citizens, fearing commercial lakefront development, lobbied to protect the open space.
What should we be doing now, so that in another 50 years they will not be blaming us for our lack of foresight?
We view this as a way that firms with the foresight, willingness, and courage can implement workforce accountability systems for line managers.
Its members have no volition, no foresight, no memory, no altruism (nor selfishness, in the strict sense).
His foresight and vast knowledge of the river and its tides paid off. Times, Sunday Times
In the case of cellular machinery (among other things), we are looking at something and thinking about whether the same kind of "foresight" is required to produce the effect. Are dem bunny prints?
Was it a lack of mental ability, foresight and imagination that was needed many years ago to regenerate what was once a fine city?
We must invest with courage and foresight to prosper in the future. Times, Sunday Times
They inquire of ancient apocalyptic books and oracles, of sibyls and divines, who remembered the future and predicted it in the past: an exercise in retroactive foresight.
Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing. So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
This sad affair could have been avoided if only he had shown foresight and made arrangements for additional funding before the company was in crisis. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
If teleology (i.e. pre-existing or "foresighted" design) were necessary to bring about those objects and processes we observe in nature, then it would be necessary to infer their existence and operation. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
We need a return to foresight and vision to plan for the Basingstoke of 2030.
The Cosla group, however, refutes any accusations of unfair play, claiming that McConnell and the rest of the group are simply showing ‘foresight’ in setting out local government's views.
To quote the American biologist Colin Pittendrigh, the whole thing is nothing but a ‘patchwork of makeshifts pieced together, as it were, from what was available when opportunity knocked, and accepted in the hindsight, not the foresight, of natural selection’. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Perhaps children even posses abilities we do not; intuition, foresight; perhaps even telekinesis.
These are exciting times which must be matched by political foresight and resolute action. Times, Sunday Times
From what I hear tell, the foresight is a side effect of the genetic selection and enhancement process that was used when my parents decided to have a child. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But Paramount Home Entertainment also had the foresight to begin the DVD migration earlier than its chief kidvid rival, HIT Entertainment, which owns the Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder franchises.
They employed a unique combination of theoretic analysis, practical grasp, and imaginative foresight.
In other words, foresight, the ability to look ahead, is not an esoteric activity restricted to a few people with PhDs.
Cool foresight and a quick mind enabled him to react swiftly in an emergency.
I think that some animals have some glimmerings of foresight.
He concluded by asserting emphatically that if it had not been for his foresight in providing himself with field-glasses, the steer would have been running over the flat with Aunt Lizzie empaled on its horns like a naturalist's butterfly, before any one could have prevented it. The Dude Wrangler
The reason it doesn't appear to exhibit "foresight" is because we observe the intermediate candidates from the generator, before they are filtered. Bunny and a Book
Don't you wish your ancestors had shown rather more foresight? Principles of Corporate Finance
But as a scientist, I know quite a few such people: Extropeans, folks associated with the Foresight Institute, cypherpunks, fans of cryonics, and so on.
The first settlers in Tel Aviv were foresighted.
This is one of the conclusions of the think tank Strategic Foresight Group in its to-be-launched study titled The Himalayan Challenge, Water Security in Emerging Asia. The Tap's Running Dry
In the "Protagoras," where Plato represents Socrates as expounding his position, virtue is interpreted to mean prudence, or foresight of pleasurable and painful consequences. The Approach to Philosophy
In a guild, the only thing that kept each thief from killing the other was respect: respect of ability, intelligence, foresight, dexterity.
She had had the foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an accident.
Her courage and foresight made her a global sensation. The Sun
And good for Opie and Andy (quite possibly the gayest names in showbiz), for having the foresight not to call the assaulted and raped women in question, nappy headed hoes. Archive 2007-05-01
The passage of the St. Bernard was a triumph of organisation, foresight, and good management; as a military exploit it involved none of the danger, none of the suffering, none of the hazard, which gave such interest to the campaign of Massena and Suvaroff. A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
The foresighted legislation in this country that allows progress in stem research is to be commended.
But he had the foresight to drop the bunch of matches into his wide-mouthed outside pocket before he slipped on his mittens in despair, and started to run up the trail. First Version of To Build A Fire
Malthus held that people possess the capacity for foresight and make prudential decisions in the light of the consequences they foresee.
Epimetheus, ignoring his brother's foresightful warning not to accept any gifts from Zeus, embraced Pandora and opened the box, whereupon the curses flew out and infected human life with toil, misery, suffering, disease, and death. Do We Have to Choose Between Hope and Reality?
As Jones reveals, however, even the military brass gave only scant thought to how to actually secure the salients they planned to capture - and this lack of foresight doomed the operation from the start.
Both a foresight and backsight are taken on the point. 1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation
He was later criticised for his lack of foresight.
Foresight is the highest degree of creativity: it cannot be learned like shooting or driving.
I'd had the foresight to wear my waterproof hiking boots, so to save my wife's shoes from ruin I gave her a piggyback ride while she held the umbrella.
Of course, everyone realized I was from Mars at that point; although Cory L. did subsequently, to his foresightful credit, admit that SL resident gambling was likely to become an example of just this sort of system repression. A New Virtual World Winter?
I admire your foresight and sagacity.
Don't you wish your ancestors had shown rather more foresight? Principles of Corporate Finance
Oregon quality of life is worth paying for and most foresighted corporations and wealthy people know it. Think Progress » Progressive Victory In Oregon: Voters Approve Tax Hikes On Corporations And The Wealthy To Close Budget Gap
They had the foresight to invest in new technology.
We shall administer it prudently with foresight and in the best interests of the people.
She is given foresight through the benefit of hindsight. Times, Sunday Times
Since we lack prophetic foresight, we cannot predict the outcomes of our decisions.
This lack of foresight caused numerous mechanical breakdowns.
The county police have been very foresighted and allowed me to be involved in spectrum management.
True conservation had to begin with “that combination of solicitude, foresight, and skill which we call husbandry,” practiced by landowners on their own land. Aldo Leopold's Legacy
That Father Ray had the foresight, determination and unfaltering work ethics to bring the institutions into existence is outstanding.
As a rule even musicians signed to major label deals go uninsured, unless they have the foresight to insure themselves.
It’s clear that European firms tend to be more interested in futurism — which they often call foresight analysis — than are Americans. What do Futurists Really Know? | Impact Lab
Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity.
So these kinds of issues need foresight from policymakers, something that is in short supply. Times, Sunday Times
A “five-a-day” programme of social and personal activities can improve mental wellbeing, much as eating fruit and vegetables enhances physical health, according to Foresight, the government think-tank. Five Simple Things A Day To Stay Sane | Disinformation
Of course he did have the foresight to land a job with a newspaper that thinks horoscopes are headline news.
Our foresighted lawmakers, the politicians have also contributed to this achievement.
These are exciting times which must be matched by political foresight and resolute action. Times, Sunday Times
The couple had the foresight to plan their retirement wisely.
What often seems like rudeness and inconsiderate behavior, a lack of respect for other people, even dangerous driving habits, or poor quality workmanship all stem from a lack of upbringing and education in manners, foresight, and anticipating and avoiding problems. Prices almost never listed
The search algorithms (goal, foresight) had to search a minimal amount of data (knowledge) in order to make a decision about it's next move. aiguy: (The storm achieves non-proximate effects – the long-term equalization of electrical potential). Bunny and a Book
It smacks of weakness, lack of foresight and drift. Times, Sunday Times
He left an indelible imprint on his followers, who saw him as a foresighted leader and a constructive party guide.
Assuming that wealthier and more foresightful people tended to get out of town before the hurricane, I would guesstimate that roughly 15% to 20% of the people left behind in New Orleans were, according to the Supreme Court, ineligible for the death penalty due to having IQs below 70. The Supreme Court on IQ and Judgment
It will take time, perhaps a great geal of time, but it will change because those in power possess only power - they have no intelligence or foresight - and they will be replaced by people with larger brains. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
We were foresighted enough to install a gas fireplace in our basement den, which has made the room my favorite spot in our house this winter.
He showed incredible foresight, tolerance and patience in trying to resolve problems, which was something my father had. Times, Sunday Times
I believe that this legislation is very foresighted indeed.
This sad affair could have been avoided if only he had shown foresight and made arrangements for additional funding before the company was in crisis. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Yet look at the damage that many of these other highly speculative and risky professions have caused in the name of science due to their lack of insight, foresight, common sense or humility.
The Emperour is a great marchant himselfe of waxe and sables, which with good foresight may bee procured to their hands: as for other commodities there are little or none in Moscovia, besides those aboue rehearsed: if there bee other, it is brought thither by the Turkes, who will be daintie to buy our clothes considering the charges of cariage ouer land. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Ideals of the good enable us to take up the standpoint of the prudent and foresighted individual, concerned to harmonize current desires with one another and with the self's future needs and interests.
Similarly, memory building exercised one's mental ingenium, a procedure that Aristotle considered central in the development of ethical character. 67 Mastery of an art, material or mental, was thus perceived to cultivate prudence, since the accumulation of experience enhances one's foresight and refinement. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Thomas Paine, never modest in his claims to foresight but sometimes correct nonetheless, cogitated years later on the origin of the move to replace the Continental Congress with a true federal government. Robert Morris
This sad affair could have been avoided if only he had shown foresight and made arrangements for additional funding before the company was in crisis. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
He had had the foresight to bring in the washing before the rain started.
This is not a foresighted, research-based, risk-assessing organization.
In response to this excellent, balanced, foresighted Budget, the public wants to know one thing: where is National's policy?
This to me spells a director who requires foresight or who ought to hold more rehearsals after the play has been performed before an audience for at least a couple of times.
Strategic planning does not promise that decisions will be correct; only that they will be made with foresight.
I hope that before too long the Green Party will be part of a Government that is foresighted and courageous enough to get rid of the whole foolish student loan scheme, altogether.
Ihave been annoyed for days now by my lack of foresight in not being a member of the police force. Times, Sunday Times
These are exciting times which must be matched by political foresight and resolute action. Times, Sunday Times
About 80% of businesses fail within five years and a vast amount of that is due to lack of planning and lack of foresight. Times, Sunday Times
Alas, lumber is not an easily-renewable resource and once it's gone, it's gone for a long time, unless there is unlikely foresight to replant the ravaged slopes of this tropical forest. Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
We don't necessarily need prophetic foresight, just the ability to calculate what might result from our actions.
He refers to the absence of reliable foresight and explains ‘why companies seem invulnerable one minute and aimless the next.’
A few extra bucks a year in taxes for a chance at real economic impact is a worthwhile investment --- Bravo to the hardworking individuals who have the foresight to create this opportunity!!! antlion writes: Naples Daily News Stories
If you'd like to save a few trees and join me in honoring a foresighted teacher and impish free spirit, now is the time to store the Christmas cards on your mantel for re-use next year. Peter Y. Sussman: Get the Christmas Cards Ready
Dan the lawyer by sstruble on May 22, 2008 - 12: 09am and only a lawyer as foresightful and capable as Danny could have helped the World Wide Web (W3C) consortium navigate its way to a successful revision of its intellectual property licensing policy, making it possibly the first ICT standards organization to have a strong and simple royalty-free licensing policy. Obama and McCain Surrogates Describe Two Very Different Tech Presidents
Once the worlds leading producer of heroin, carrots, and rope grade hemp, is now a radioactive slaggy area, thanks to a foresightful Reagan administration, which bombed the area with radiation bombs, which consumed the life force of everything in ten kilometer radii. What would you do?
When you read about industrial relations please give some credit to the thoughtful employers of America and Canada -- I use the word comprehensively -- for the foresight they have exercised in building up these programmes. The Family Life of Big Business
Making the comments showed a great deal of insensitivity to your fellow countrymen, and a lack of foresight of the repercussions of such statements.
People from the health sector frequently tell me that they appreciate the consistent and foresighted approach that this Government has taken towards funding and providing health care.
We view this as a way that firms with the foresight, willingness, and courage can implement workforce accountability systems for line managers.
I even had bites all over my bum following an emergency toilet situation which caught me off guard as I had not had the foresight to "repel" this area of my body! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
In 1904 two foresighted German glassblowers saw its commercial potential.
Purpose supposes foresight.
Clinton was winging it, carried high on Reagan's excellent economic foresight and results.
It will take a long, long time for me to forgive the corporation for this lack of foresight. Times, Sunday Times
General Motors is about to go bankrupt due to the lack of foresight of countless overpaid executives who apparently like to design cars using bricks and a old glue gun, and the U.S. economy is in a tailspin thanks in large part to some of the most disastrous, corrupt and downright criminal policies and practices of a previous administration I helped spawn," Gingrich didn't add, sighingly. Mark Morford: Obama should take wife to Liquor Barn, watch pay-per-view, fall asleep in drunken stupor "just like the rest of us," furious GOP says
But he did not display any interest or foresight into what that future might contain: for him, not whatever is, is right, but whatever will be, is right.
There are then some really sweet and amiable verses on a French lady, separated from her own children, fondling the baby of a neighbouring cottager; -- after which we have this quintessence of unmeaningness, entitled, 'Foresight.' Early Reviews of English Poets
She'd had the foresight to sell her apartment just before house prices came down.
Duanfang's foresight in publishing his collection allows us to reconstruct provenances for hundreds of objects in collections around the world.
hindsight is always better than foresight
Both can be accused of astonishing lack of foresight. Times, Sunday Times
Her family's courage and foresight were rewarded. The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! — especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made. Emma
In the long run they'll lose their best employees, who will go to work for more foresighted managements or start their own competing shops with fresh business models.

How To Use Foresight In A Sentence

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