Sentence examples for foresaw it would be from inspiring English sources

And on that vital question, the Constitution's meaning was indeed "fixed," as Lincoln foresaw it would be -- but through the upheaval of his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, his re-election in 1864, the bloodshed of war, the Union's victory and the adoption of three constitutional amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) that the Confederate states were compelled to ratify.

He did not intend to undermine the process, he did not foresee that the process would be undermined, and he could not reasonably have been expected to foresee that it would be undermined.

I suppose I became fascinated with why it was so hard, and why I hadn't foreseen that it would be.

Nick Clegg has confided to friends that he was slow to realise how much visceral hostility towards the Tories there was in the north, nor had he foreseen how it would be displaced on to his own party through guilt by association.

Alex Tallchief Skibine opined that the case was almost unique, and he did not foresee that it would be significant for other tribes.

But I failed to foresee that it would be rejected on the basis of his campaign statements, or that using campaign statements that way would put our country on the brink of a constitutional crisis.

We knew the end had to be near but could not foresee how awful it would be.

Launa Schweizer, a middle-school teacher in Brooklyn, wrote to me about her own experience as an accelerated student in an e-mail: "When my parents and teachers decided I should skip second grade, they didn't have other options to challenge me academically, and perhaps didn't foresee how hard it would be for me to be the youngest kid in middle school and college.

When John made that selfless decision, he couldn't have foreseen how difficult it would be for him and for us.

Mr. Barak was asked if he foresaw a point when it would be impossible to block the Iranian program.

Rick told me that he foresaw the day when it would be common for people to own their own satellites in orbit.