The guidance envisioned pre-emptive attacks against states bent on acquiring nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
Cameron quoted the book in a pre-election address envisioning the "big society", the former Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw took it on holiday and Michael Gove, the education secretary, said it was "a fantastic analysis".
These possibilities are by no means a fantastical slippery slope — indeed, the idea of pre-empting criminals before they act was envisioned by Philip K. Dick's short story "The Minority Report," later a movie starring Tom Cruise.
It was hardly the sprawling bachelor lair I had envisioned; instead, it was a flimsy pre-fab modular, a low-rent version of the kind in "The Truman Show".
Paramedics (implying the established profession and not simply a label for any pre-hospital provider) do not exist nor are they envisioned in Russia as of now.
None of which is what Ms. Brown, who won the Canadian National Banjo Championship when she was 14, envisioned for herself when she enrolled as a pre-med student at Harvard 22 years ago.
As the founding headmaster of Saint Ann's, Mr. Bosworth envisioned an academically rigorous school for the gifted, from pre-school through high school, with no grades and few rules.
The desire to reach a pre-envisioned goal motivates me to go farther and maybe faster -- to work harder.
Mr. Marzio said he hoped to buy more of it, and envisioned a third building to display it along with the museum's Asian, African, pre-Columbian and American Indian works.
In a former Pearl Paint annex on Lispenard Street in TriBeCa, The Elevens was envisioned as a neighborly oasis that would derive its name and ambiance from the pre-Prohibition custom of having a nip at 11 a.m.
For this process, multistage counter current washing schemes could be envisioned that makes efficient use of water and result in substantially more alkali recovery from the pre-extracted biomass [ 44].
