Sentence examples for had been foreseeable from inspiring English sources

It didn't matter that his death had been foreseeable, nor that those in charge of the government had deliberately kept millions of Venezuelans misinformed about the true state of the President's health.

Prof Phil Scraton, of Queens University, Belfast, who substantially authored the report unanimously approved by the eight-person panel of experts, told the families at the cathedral that the disaster had been "foreseeable".

Although, the victory over the Soviet Union provided no good-will from Islamic fundamentalists for the United States, deemed just an instrument of Allah who brought them the victory, perhaps handing the Soviet Union a taste of its own "Vietnam" medicine was a necessary experience to temper its enthusiasm for military adventurism, and thus worth the consequences even if they had been foreseeable.

A forgetful principal finds it difficult to distinguish between success and failure on the part of his agent, because bad outcomes are often regarded, after the event, as having been foreseeable ("hindsight bias" is a well-documented psychological phenomenon).

Although the outbreak of violence should have been foreseeable (during the 2004 presidential election 189 people were killed and nearly 300 were wounded), many candidates and voters remain unable to campaign and vote in safety.

The stories' twists and turns may have been foreseeable a mile off, and it wasn't as if you were going to light on a disciple of Kafka, but that was part of the point.

A few of his points had merit: it's true that the United States, like other great powers, ignores international laws when they get in the way, and it should have been foreseeable that Russia would view the expansion of NATO as a challenge to its interests.

Unfortunately, these considerations are frequently not made until the first catastrophe has occurred, even in those patients in whom imminent cardiorespiratory failure has been foreseeable.

But there is nothing predictable about their story arcs -- or, when consequences do arrive, they may have been foreseeable, but usually in hindsight, as you expect from an excellent story.

This may have been foreseeable to some degree, to the extent that patients with comparatively lower privilege levels (i.e., those with no leave access or those requiring staff accompaniment) grew increasingly frustrated during the initial policy implementation when leave requests were held and then reviewed with increased scrutiny.

A separate inquiry by the Australian Senate found that last year's violence had been "eminently foreseeable", and that the government had "failed in its duty" to protect Manus inmates.