Sentence examples for foresee defeat from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, July 21 , 1962P. 77 If Jack Price, who owns and trains Carry Back, decides to start him in the Brooklyn at Aqueduct this weekend, it is difficult to foresee defeat for him.

By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, July 21, 1962 P. 77 If Jack Price, who owns and trains Carry Back, decides to start him in the Brooklyn at Aqueduct this weekend, it is difficult to foresee defeat for him.

Bruins fans filled sports radio shows with calls foreseeing defeat.

Robert Coover, in one of his early novellas, writes about a political fixer who, back when he was a congressman, had the sagacity to foresee his own electoral defeat against a "young tight-lipped challenger": You see, I am blessed — or damned, as you will — with puffy pink lips.

If some of the presidential candidates pound away at that fact, it is possible to foresee a wave of public frustration and anger leading to defeat of the TPP in the Congress".

No, that was a very unsafe bet: the model did not foresee the horror of Bloemfontein and the 4-1 defeat athehandsnds of Germany in the last 16.

Even so, the Yellow Jackets' first-year coach, Chan Gailey, never foresaw this kind of defeat, particularly because his team had handed North Carolina State its first loss, ended Virginia's six-game winning streak and played well in a disappointing setback against Florida State.

The post is likely to be his last job in Brussels and he does not foresee a return to politics in Spain, where he led the Socialists to defeat in 2000 before resigning as party leader.

We conclude that contamination thresholds are likely to be biologically insufficient to prevent environmental contamination and bear the potential to legally allow genetic pollution of the environment defeating the real purpose of the legislation, with consequences that are difficult to foresee.

He poured scorn on the prospect of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, saying he did not foresee a hung parliament after the election and that he was relishing the prospect of Labour defeating Nick Clegg.

But some foresee a difficulty.