Now we have Murray, who has taken the backhand further than any of these great players envisaged for the stroke.
McInerney also impressed in his outing for the Portland Timbers, although it wasn't quite in the role that was originally envisaged for the former Philadelphia and Montreal man.
By my maths that leaves a further 1,300 "affordable" homes to be included in applications to build the other 5,400-odd 5,400-odd envisagedwellings envisagedoject area.
He quickly set about his task, handing me thick brochures and narrating the grand designs envisaged for the town, with a practiced air.
Unlike other Bloomsbury figures, he did not pine for the morality or culture or even the food of France (he wanted to attach a "British restaurant" to each of the arts centres that he envisaged for the post-war era).
Proposing the most far-reaching integration ever envisaged for the 16-country single-currency zone, the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, warned Europeans that they "can't have monetary union without having economic union".
For half a century the GATT relied on voluntary settlement procedures, until America and others finally agreed to set up a body with the teeth originally envisaged for the ITO: the World Trade Organisation.That body has, so far, been accepted by Congress, albeit with plenty of grumbling about the associated infringement of sovereignty.
Last weekend, the president received Egypt's Hosni Mubarak at Camp David, and at the end of this week he is to see Saudi Arabia's foreign minister.The speech is expected to rehearse Mr Bush's long-term vision of a Palestinian state, larger and more viable than the fragmented entity that Mr Sharon says he envisages for the Palestinians in the vague and distant future.
As for the Zionist revivalism of Im Tirtzu and other groups, in writing about "the absurdity of the concept" of "Arab-Israelis" (in a Hebrew language pamphlet), Im Tirtzu's founder rejects the inclusive concept of citizenship that Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, envisaged for the Jewish state.
You can experience this in the Shard, a monument to overpowering growth finding its final form in a period of slump; you can see it in the Olympic site and the speculative apartment blocks of Stratford, a poor east London district that now partially resembles the sort of Blairite theme park envisaged for the Greenwich peninsula 15 years ago, except more grandiosely vacant.
