Sentence examples for had envisioned that from inspiring English sources

If state officials had envisioned that Mr. Schilling would become a glamorous new pillar of the local business community, they had miscalculated there, too.

The early settlers, in naming the street, had envisioned that the green block of the seminary would be surrounded by an enclave of private houses.

He had hired a lawyer, Edward Hayes, who is a close friend of Governor Pataki, and Hayes argued that the public expected his client to build everything he had envisioned — that his plans had been presented as a package.

"It was known that planets were battered by impacts, but nobody had envisioned that the [moon's] crust was so beaten up," said Maria Zuber, Grail's principal investigator and a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They had envisioned that Mr. Sanchez would attract a record turnout among the state's fast-growing number of Hispanic voters and hoped that his willingness to spend $30 million of his fortune would help lift the whole Democratic ticket.

A year ago many experts had envisioned that most of the money would come from companies bound by the European Union's emissions trading system as well as those in the United States, since Congress was considering adopting legislation that would have allowed American greenhouse gas emitters to buy offsets abroad.

While it's exciting to consider the possibilities stemming from this era of innovation -- which directors and futurists for decades have envisioned -- that allows us to watch a movie "anywhere, anytime," the more preoccupied we become with the technologies of how movies can reach us, the less we seem to ask the most important question: How do we really want to experience a film?

"Ten years ago I never could have envisioned that," he said.

It's a common-ground issue, and no one would have envisioned that in the '70s and '80s".

Some technologists have envisioned that this technology could lead to something like an always up-to-date newspaper that displays information carried over the wireless Internet.

But neither I, nor anyone else, could have envisioned that by the time he left office eight years later, he would have managed to transform his job into the most electrifying bully pulpit in medicine.