In preventing counsel for Mr. Djakovic from undertaking the cross-examination he sought, the Appeal Tribunal foreclosed the prospect that Mr. Djakovic's case might be advanced.
(During the 2000 campaign, he forgot to mark on his calendar an invitation to brief the candidate George W. Bush, foreclosing the prospect of a job in the White House).
The company's directors don't appear to have foreclosed on the prospects of any and all deals, but instead seem to be prodding Roche into a better price.
At minimum, the U.S. designation forecloses the remote prospect of rapprochement between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic, goads the Iranians into taking provocative action, and would make returning to the nuclear deal — something some Democrats have vowed to do should they win in 2020 — a more complicated and difficult exercise.
We are transforming blighted urban landscapes, food deserts, foreclosed lots, and the prospect of a bleak economic future, into spaces for possibility and opportunity.
In addition, one Texas man was faced with the prospect last year that BofA would foreclose on his home, which was already destroyed in Hurricane Ike.
I hesitated at the prospect.
Many more constituencies would have reason to bet on a decline, however: mortgage lenders guarding against defaults and the prospect of holding foreclosed properties, builders concerned that their homes may fetch lower prices once they are on the market, as well as individual owners.
Here too, the Israeli public must begin to think in these terms and not buy into Netanyahu's argument that a "united" Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of Israel, which would foreclose any prospect for peace.
The prospect was dispiriting.
