Refreshing, ego-free, possessing all the right values and reassuringly sensible, Nigel has clearly matured into the man his father always envisaged he would.
When he planned this visit to Washington, presenting himself as the fresh face of modern liberal conservatism, he could not have envisaged he would be in the dock for decisions taken years ago by Blair, Brown and Alex Salmond.
But that was precisely the intention of the Bordeaux jurors, who, by sentencing Papon to 10 years in jail at the age of 89, plainly envisaged that he would end his days in jail.
Unless the medical evidence is put in doubt, judges have little option but to order release; they are not allowed to take into account factors such as the enormity of the crime, or even that, in Papon's case, the length of the original sentence clearly envisaged that he would die in prison.
He has not shared it with anyone outside his immediate family or his most intimate circle of friends, and yet it is this secret, perhaps more than anything else, that shapes the person he is, that defines his life to such an extent that Peter cannot envisage what he would be like if it did not exist.
"I didn't envisage that he would go so soon but I am absolutely delighted the board have given me the opportunity.
I couldn't quite work out how Doherty had managed to get her involved [in the film], she seemed too sophisticated… but I think she was first approached when Doherty was still with Kate Moss and she hadn't envisaged that he'd make the film so difficult for her to complete". The Friday before her death, Fior had dropped Whitehead outside the flat in east London.
In contrast with the model democracy the neocons had envisaged, Obama said he would have to settle for a less than perfect Iraq when the US pulled out.
Weinstein said he envisaged enforcement would fall to nurses or other public health providers.
A Tesco Bank spokesman added that, while the firm's involvement is not in a commercial capacity – "we are part of a social enterprise",– he envisaged borrowers would be charged 19% APR on their microloans.
At a hearing last month, counsel David Forsdick repeated the mayor's stance that he could not envisage situations where he would agree to a semi-permanent protest camp on the site.
