If the result seems a foregone conclusion, people switch off.A good example was the 2005 Champions League final, also between AC Milan and Liverpool (see chart).
So it's far from a foregone conclusion that it's good for you.
We have to probe, says Burns, "beneath the carapace of terror" (the metaphor labors as the conscience unloads); but, when once we probe, we "uncover other facets of Iraq's culture and history" which made the defeat of America's good intentions a foregone conclusion.
The strength of the incentive may be limited because "type I errors (false positive rewards based on relatively poor performance of others) and type II errors (false negative penalties or foregone rewards because of relatively good performance of others)" are likely [ 16].
Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR When Portland's Mississippi neighborhood started transitioning into a hipster playground, the sprouting of good bars was a foregone conclusion in a city like Stumptown.
A criticism of LCA is that in its standard form, it fails to take account of changes in land use: thus, a process may have a relatively favourable environmental effect, as measured through LCA, but unfavourable production effects through foregone output – either food or other land based goods and services.
"But when you've a team-mate as good as Jenson, it's not a foregone conclusion.
This vote was as good as set in stone a year ago, a foregone conclusion given the fierce partisan divide, but we didn't stop talking about it or holding companies and officials responsible.
It describes an experiment which investigates whether, when individuals consider giving up money in exchange for goods, they construe money outlays as losses or as foregone gains.
Accepting his peace prize in Tipperary, Richard Haass had the good grace to acknowledge he would have readily foregone the award for the agreement he was not able to broker at the New Year.
