Sentence examples for were not foreseeable from inspiring English sources

But even if there were no intent and even if the loss were not foreseeable at the time, someone is sitting pretty.

Of course there were events – some of them corporately traumatic – most of which were not foreseeable or in any meaningful sense Patten's fault; but there was also the way he chose to react to them.

"But it's not foreseeable".

"Given that further developments are not foreseeable, Volkswagen is making arrangements for various flexibilisation measures extending as far as short-time work".

(Hans Schenck, sales director for the Pencil Factory, said that development on the warehouse site was "not foreseeable or imminent," but that there was no guarantee).

The hotel said that it had followed all security standards mandated by the Egyptian government, and that the attack, carried out by a gunman, was not foreseeable.

Rapidly rising consumption is not foreseeable in the US, but it is already happening where production is booming: China, India, Brazil, Russia, parts of Europe (especially Germany).

"If there is no real solution by Sunday this week, it is not foreseeable what the next step will be," he told Austrian radio.

Although a full fledged recovery of the housing market is not foreseeable, it is still highly likely that prices for shelter will increase at a much higher rate in 2013 than the 0.4% increase observed during 2010.

He said there was nothing to suggest it was foreseeable in general terms to the teaching staff that any pupil might seek to poison a teacher, and it was not foreseeable in respect of the pupil concerned in particular.

His yearning was not foreseeable at his birth: his father was a hippie and his mother was an ex-nun, and they had met while counselling draft resisters during the Vietnam War.