The phrase "anticipated at the outset" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to expectations or predictions made at the beginning of a process or situation.
Example: "The challenges we faced were anticipated at the outset of the project, allowing us to prepare accordingly."
Alternatives: "expected from the beginning" or "foreseen at the start."
It could not have been anticipated at the outset, however, that Manning would have been tried six times over a four-year period.
If it no longer appears that the project will deliver the returns anticipated at the outset, it may be time to stop.
Anyone who has worked on a single location project knows that the product or service delivered isn't always what was anticipated at the outset.
Robert Litan, vice president and director for economic studies at the Brookings Institution, said the "level of public hostility to the merger was larger than either of the parties anticipated at the outset".
One participant considered that the attitude of donors was changing, and they now wanted to know about projects that had not achieved what had been anticipated at the outset.
Since Nordbanken and Gota Bank were both government controlled at this point, there was no issue of taxpayer subsidy from overpaying or capital depletion from underpaying.Mr Lundgren anticipated at the outset that even with the blanket liability guarantee, the government would have to inject substantially more capital into almost all the banks.
Sometimes the results were quite surprising as a vendor would make an attractive offer I did not anticipate at the outset.
It is often difficult to anticipate, at the outset, the consequences of design decisions on the ultimate effectiveness of such complex systems, in which case the evaluation process is required to support the designers each time engineering choices must be made or justified.
In-depth interviews were undertaken with parents of children ≤12 years as these afforded the flexibility and privacy needed for them to discuss issues they perceived as salient, including those not anticipated at the study's outset [ 15, 16].
Owing to the complexity of the proposed software, we could not anticipate all program behaviours at the outset.
