Sentence examples for good at foreseeing from inspiring English sources

In the eighteen-fifties, Blight told me, Americans were not good at foreseeing or absorbing the "shock of events," including the Fugitive Slave Act, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the John Brown raid, and even the Mexican-American War.

Odds are they're not good at foreseeing how long things will take, they have a chaotic life, or they're just naturally fickle.

"An excellent operator is extremely good at making what we already have," he said, rather than foreseeing the advantages of radically new technology.

That's a good example of foreseeing change outside of the business and developing a model around the need.

Doubly so in the mild, good deflation I foresee as consumers wait for still lower prices.

When, in 1652, Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, landed at the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa and laid the foundations of a future Dutch Cape Colony, no one could have foreseen that the process thus begun would assume such proportions 250 years later.

Parents lie awake at night foreseeing their "unrecognizable great-grandchildren... genotype hidden by phenotype".

Although in good health, he can foresee a time when he won't be a confident driver, if he can drive at all.

While Intrade's predictive record was good, it didn't foresee the rising controversy over under-regulated speculation.

The Ford Motor Company, which expects to report record financial results for 1997, foresees another good year in 1998 and at least $1 billion more in cost cuts, the company's chief financial officer, John Devine, said yesterday.

Ian Gordon, analyst at Investec, foresees further falls.