The Supreme Court of Appeal heard arguments that Pistorius could have foreseen he would kill someone when he fired four shots through the door of a locked bathroom cubicle.
Gen Mena said the police operation had been long in the planning and they had foreseen he would try and flee.
Not even in his most optimistic days could he foresee he would come to have his own roof, or a salary that would save him from having to divert State resources to survive.
When he named his company Apple, Steve Jobs must have foreseen he'd attract the attention of Apple Corps, the holding company founded by the Beatles in the late 1960s.
In his Senate House address at Cambridge on December 4, 1857, he foresaw that he would be unable to complete his work in Africa, and he called on young university men to take up the task that he had begun.
But he never foresaw that he would end up running a remarkable African theatre company (the company's fans include Alan Rickman, Daniel Craig - who calls Reding 'a hero of mine' - and City of God director Fernando Meirelles) that has saved people's lives.
Charles Manson made many grand predictions in the 60s to his doped-up, damaged followers about his future, but he never foresaw that he would waste away pathetically, a broken old man in prison.
But neither Lincoln nor the abolitionists foresaw that he would be assassinated and that Johnson, the wartime governor of Union-occupied Tennessee known for his hatred of the slaveholding elite, would become president and issue wholesale pardons to them.
Born in 1835 when Halley's Comet was visible, Twain foresaw that he would also die during a time when Halley's Comet was visible.
"I had never foreseen that he would be such a source of material," he said of his father.
He returned the heart jack, won with the ace, and West gave up a spade, failing to foresee that he would need his length in that suit.
