Sentence examples for not to foresee from inspiring English sources

Even Osborne's closest allies admit that it was an error not to foresee the ferocity of the reaction to the cuts to the age-related allowance.

It may embarrass the McCain people and infuriate my Bush friends to raise this open-convention possibility now, but what are seers for, if not to foresee?

Her quest to clear Brody's name has to be put on hold, however, so she could attend the Congressional hearing which asks some very important questions: how inept is the CIA not to foresee a bombing of its own headquarters?

They must have really lacked political instinct and common sense not to foresee all the consequences of their actions.

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it".

(European Chemicals Agency 2008) Because the criteria that will be used to trigger toxicity and ecotoxicity testing in substances in this tonnage band have not yet been decided, it is not possible to foresee how many of these substances will be tested.

It is in accordance with a reasonable variation as the response to a certain activity is not easy to foresee and the estimation according to the VAS scale is not a direct correlation to biological activity.

But it's not hard to foresee potential problems.

It is not difficult to foresee the consequences.

It was not hard to foresee the rise of the Taliban.

But it was not impossible to foresee that the vilification of fat might be an error.