Sentence examples for foregone and from inspiring English sources

Great swatches of television time will be devoted to outcomes both foregone and unpredictable.

Like the gospel of St Mark, this is a narrative that, for all its frantic hurly-burly, is only ever heading towards a foregone, and sacrificially violent, conclusion.

Blair spoke in the past tense - "it would have merited my resignation" - as if the inquiry was already done and dusted, the conclusion foregone and any danger to himself long past.

The vast social and personal costs of this irrational economic absurdity – tens of millions unemployed, one third of US productive capacity unutilised (rotting and rusting), and vast quantities of needed output foregone and lost – are ignored lest they raise the uncomfortable question: why do we retain a system as dysfunctional as this?

A founder invests capital, salaries foregone and career capital.

For farms on which existing fish ponds would have to be converted to settling basins, over half of the cost was due to the production foregone and annual fixed costs of the pond.

Price spikes also result in distress sales of productive assets and foregone education and health care.

Like Europe, the ultimate price for the growing corporate state will be paid by the American consumer (in the form of higher prices, reduced choice, and foregone innovation), and the American taxpayer, who is already facing an enormous bill from the direct subsidy of favored constituents.

Coming off an apparent Iowa victory and a clear win in New Hampshire and leading in the polls, the frontrunner behaved like his nomination was a foregone conclusion, and let Gingrich strut and fret unchallenged on the stage.

But by 1816, the sale was a foregone conclusion, and both the government and Elgin may well have been sloppy with evidence that wasn't going to change the outcome.

19 NCDs are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity and account for 62% of the total burden of foregone DALYs and 53% of total deaths in India.