4am (11pm EST) Polls close in five western states, but most are foregone conclusions – Obama is predicted to take 78 electoral votes from California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, and Romney is expected to take four from Idaho.
Instead of calculating opportunity cost as the value of the single most attractive foregone alternative, we seem to assemble an idealistic composite of all the options foregone.
But analysts said that the decision on Greece probably had little real effect, as most considered it a foregone conclusion.
The long-debated and contentious change must still be approved by the national Geographic Names Council in October, but most consider that a foregone conclusion.
Until a few weeks ago, a return of the PRI seemed a foregone conclusion; most polls showed the leftist Mr. López Obrador and the PAN candidate, Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota, battling for a distant second place behind Mr. Peña Nieto.
He speaks for barely two minutes, since the outcome of most trials here is a foregone conclusion.
Reid's exit has been a foregone conclusion for most of the season, but Jeff McLane writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer that now seems like an awfully good time to cut the cord.
When Winfield was elected to the Hall of Fame earlier this year, for most people it was a foregone conclusion that he would adorn himself with a Yankees cap for his induction in August.
In the event of a completed deal at the end of June, which this official saw as a foregone conclusion, his most immediate worry was the economic boost Iran would receive from sanctions relief.
If you're running a software company today, it's almost a foregone conclusion that most or all of your apps will run in the cloud.
