Friends might have foreseen that it would have struggled through the more prosperous late 1990s and early 2000s, when trolley snooping and supermarket snobbery could have been enough to shame consumers into forking out more for their weekly food shop.
He concedes that he did not foresee the Srebenica massacre, but criticises UNPROFOR, believing that it was not in a position to act even had the massacre been foreseen and that it had no strategy for effectively intervening in the war.
Total UK argued that it should not be liable for damages because it could not reasonably have foreseen that it would cause the destruction it did.
His prediction proved to be right, but he could not have foreseen that it would take several decades to come true.
"How is it that nobody had foreseen that it was a terrible idea to accept this bill on the eve of the anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day?" Senator Anna Maria Anders, the daughter of a Polish war hero, asked during the debate.
"Not that we could have foreseen that their season would end like this -- although if you study the history of Cleveland sports, we should have foreseen that it would end like this -- but at first we worried that it would hurt the video," said Polk. "But actually I think it helped the video.
Nobody seems to have foreseen that it could do so much damage.When Haiyan landed at Guiuan, gusts hit 315kph, which some consider to be the highest ever recorded.
I suppose I became fascinated with why it was so hard, and why I hadn't foreseen that it would be.
Republicans and Democrats agreed today that Mr. Bush's last five-day push, the most extensive of any president, was critical to the outcome, and that Mr. Rove had correctly foreseen that it would rally Mr. Bush's core supporters.
Mr Mandela, who had set so much store by strengthening the ANC, a small and weak organisation when he joined it, might have foreseen that.But without him the transition to majority rule would almost certainly have been a bloody shambles.
'Cause I can give you that very easily.' " Throughout the early fall, the Berkeley administration deftly conveyed the impression that it had foreseen, condoned, and even authorized the rebellion.
