Sentence examples for foreseen the possibility from inspiring English sources

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The appeal centred on the legal concept of dolus eventualis, or indirect intention – in layman's terms, the question of whether Pistorius had foreseen the possibility that he might kill somebody when he fired four shots into the bathroom door.

Sean Caulfield, criminal partner, at the law firm Hodge Jones and Allen, said: "The test since 1984 was whether this second person had foreseen the possibility that the knife man would commit a serious assault.

Under the 300-year-old law, a second person who did not deliver the fatal blow can be convicted if they can be shown to have foreseen the possibility that another person may inflict serious harm.

Commercial airlines knew there was a risk that their jets could be hijacked, but should they have foreseen the possibility that hijackers would turn their aircraft into weapons of mass destruction?

When Brailsford attended the unveiling of the 2014 route in Paris last October and saw the inclusion of a section of Paris-Roubaix, he must have foreseen the possibility of such an outcome.

Everybody has been so busy figuring out how Roger might duck the game or what the Mets might do to him if he shows up that no one has foreseen the possibility that the issue could be rendered moot by the Mets' knocking Roger out of the game before it's his turn to bat.

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He didn't foresee the possibility of any more comebacks.

He foresaw the possibility of submarine travel and human flight.

In effect, he foresaw the possibility of the failure of the plan he endorsed, though he never repudiated it.

He foresaw the possibility that an Iraqi civil war between Sunnis and Shiites could infect the entire Middle East.

Palm said he did foresee the possibility of two teams from outside the major conferences making the B.C.S. this season.

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