In response to Cicero's De fato and De divinatione, Augustine refuted the claim that if events can happen in any way other than God has foreseen, then God can be in error.
In place of his legislative program, Mr. McGreevey used the vast powers conferred on New Jersey governors by the 1947 Constitutional Convention, perhaps because the delegates foresaw even then that the state was headed for some kind of governance gridlock.
One of many inconveniences old Michel could not have foreseen back then was a time when tens of thousands of angry Liverpool fans were harrumphing about not being able to see their team contest the final of this year's competition due to his organisation's silliness.
Whether Ecclestone foresaw even then the enormous earning potential remains a matter of conjecture, but he wasted little time in building his influence.
What the Swiss could not then foresee was that by allowing quartz watchmakers to claim a foothold among buyers looking for an inexpensive watch that could legitimately be banged around, the luxury segment would eventually be theirs for the taking.
One of the basic results of martingale theory is that, if the gambler is free to quit the game at any time using any strategy whatever, provided only that this strategy does not foresee the future, then the game remains fair.
We began blogging about the nascent crisis back in June of 2007; and while I did not then foresee a depression, I expressed concerns that events have shown were realistic.
We can perhaps say about the spectacle of two brilliant, much-loved paragons of atheism airing their thoughts as chaos and night descend that if you foresee no consoling destination, then what you do here and now, to the last, is all there is.
China then foresaw "damage to Sino-European relations and eventually to the interests of Europeans".Like the EU's ambassador to China in 1996, who tried to explain that "parliaments in Europe do not take instructions from executives", Norway this year has struggled to convince China that the government exerts no control over the independent Nobel committee.
No one then foresaw that it would lead to extreme innovations like Mr. Redzepi's vintage carrot, left in the ground for two years and then roasted whole in goat butter; or Mr. Dahlgren's sourdough-battered haddock, served on branches of juniper; or Mr. Nilsson's dish of root vegetables, with a sauce of cream whisked with vinegar-fermented beer and a garnish of salted cod roe.
