She proposed and helped lead an effort to remove sex bias from all federal laws anticipating that the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution would pass.
Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" law anticipated an imminent filing of an appeal.
J.A.L. Sterling, a London-based expert on international copyright law, anticipated all this in a 2008 paper, "Space Copyright Law: the new dimension", in which he lists dozens more potentially problematic scenarios that could arise, some seemingly risible at first.
Chokwe Lumumba, a lawyer representing the sisters, captured the prevailing legal sentiment when he said: "I don't think Mississippi law anticipates that you're going to be giving this instruction in a case where nobody gets hurt and $11 is allegedly stolen.
"That means Virginia law anticipates that police officers are going to come in contact with people who resist arrest, are going to come into contact with people who assault them, are going to come into contact with people who disarm them," said Morales.
Copyright laws never anticipated a time when people would be able to broadcast essentially private content all over the world, including scraps of copyrighted material.
"And Virginia law has anticipated that these people will live to face prosecution for violating Virginia laws".
As PolitiFact explains, the health care law involves anticipated reductions in future increases to private insurers.
Her focus on prospective son-in-laws' income anticipated the collapse in interest rates that continued for many years.
There was cross- party support for a new Defamation Act favouring publishers and the result of a vociferous campaign by defamation law detractors, anticipated in 2013.
I'm not sure if my mother, thrilled when I decided to study law, ever anticipated that this would involve me spending weeks in court live-tweeting about fisting and how best to stick metal rods down one's penis.
