Despite those efforts, the big gains he envisaged did not materialise.In early September, when Mr Harper called the election, opinion polls suggested that a victory and a majority were within reach.
After the extension the chief of the defence force, Mark Binskin, could utilise all eight but did not envisage doing that, the meeting was told.
"Did I envisage doing the amount of work on the squad?
From his vantage point across the river though, Hamid, 37, believes that much of what has happened in Iraq since – and particularly the current tumult – suggeststhe country Bell envisaged doesn't exist any more.
"It was a joy, because something you envisaged happening did happen," Maxwele remembered.
I certainly envisage them doing more for me in future as freelancers".
Watching the Barbara Walters show, however, one could envisage GW doing what Reagan did in the celebrated Cleveland debate in the 1980 election.
The realities we envisage but do not live leave tearful traces in our memory of what never was.
"This is hardly an imminent threat" says Ross. "We were misled by wildly bad conjecture in the 50s, which envisaged humanlike androids doing housework".
But as Guardiola envisaged, his team did not make excuses of fatigue and distraction after last week's national team duties.
