In that environment, the goal of colonization was hardly a foregone conclusion, much like how skeptics of space travel today question its relevance, given its expense, peril, and ambiguous returns.
Normally he toys with everybody because he has put the bar so high.' Watching Federer play, with the result often a foregone conclusion, much of the excitement is generated by how high he might raise it and with which sublime shot he might do so.
Victor Paganuzzi, the production designer for CBS and a veteran of 13 conventions, said the color scheme is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
But first there is the matter of getting re-elected to the Senate -- which various polls suggest is as much a foregone conclusion as is possible in a democracy.
The film was released here last Friday on 110 screens with limited marketing support, and the result was pretty much a foregone conclusion: a soft UK opening of £117,000, yielding an average of £1,064.
While the nation celebrated what felt like a people's revolt, I knew that it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the new government would become wildly unpopular.
Delivering his annual Autumn Statement to Parliament, Osborne conceded that the British economy will hardly grow at all in 2011 or 2012, and he further admitted that if the rest of Europe heads into recession, which is pretty much a foregone conclusion, "it may prove hard to avoid one here in the U.K".
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that the outcome of the election was pretty much a foregone conclusion - and because the incumbent has little or no real power the vote itself failed to capture the imagination of the Pakistani public.
What the post doesn't really get into, but is pretty much a foregone conclusion given the sophistication of the tools they're showing off, is how to further multiply the data's value by essentially making up the environment out of whole cloth.
That's pretty much a foregone conclusion.
