A century ago, it was confidently predicted that science and technology would drive out all superstition and religion within a generation or so.
9.24pm GMT One for weather fans … 9.18pm GMT Pre-play email dept (feat. a touch of hubris) "I am confidently predicting that the lunch break will also be the innings break," gibbers Chris Weston.
But no one is confidently predicting that.
And more than that, the N.Y.R.A. is confidently predicting that the amount of money bet on the Belmont Stakes will set records.
That could scupper indefinitely any chance of reconciliation on the island, raise the level of military tension and plunge relations between Turkey and the EU into the deep freeze.The Greek side is confidently predicting that Turkey will not, in the end, go to the brink over Cyprus because that would prejudice its own prospects of EU membership.
For months, the Dallas-based telecommunications giant has been confidently predicting that it would finalize the takeover of Time Warner by year's end.
The Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election is just a week away, and if the Liberal Democrats were still an opposition party, the pundits would be confidently predicting that they would walk away with it.
As recently as Thursday, officials were confidently predicting that China or Russia would veto the resolution, or that, if it did pass, at least 10 days would be needed to implement and enforce a no-fly zone, giving government forces enough time to retake Benghazi.
By 2013, the data-research firm PrivCo was confidently predicting that Foursquare wouldn't survive the year.
Six years ago, during the ineffectual rule of Vicente Fox, the first PAN president, political analysts were confidently predicting that the PRI would return to power only for Mr Calderón (and Mr López Obrador) to thwart it.
And he was confidently predicting that the Sweetface Fashion Company, where he and Ms. Lopez would be co-presidents, would bring in $100 million in sales to stores in its first year.
