Word Finder - foresight

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The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

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Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.

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The front sight on a rifle or similar weapon

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A bearing taken forwards towards a new object

Betsy had the foresight to take her computer.

This lack of knowledge can make foresight and specific precautions impossible.

Now there are those who would say that by taking that decision you lacked foresight.

We have found that a little foresight in these areas helps to prevent careless errors later on.

His reign was one of uninterrupted peace, and the great material development of the two kingdoms during the first half of the 19th century was largely due to his energy and foresight.

Events, however, were doing more than words could do, to confirm the public opinion of Burke's sagacity and foresight.

Then comes the almost human foresight with which the bee prevents the inevitable chaos created by an overcrowded home.

In the absence of perfect foresight, someone has to have this power.

Use 3. Let the foresight of this glorious estate wean thee from all inordinate affections to human and earthly glory.

Future research includes ICT foresight, an exploration of how new information technologies will shape voluntary action.

Conrad possessed military talents, and had many estimable qualities, but he lacked perseverance and foresight, and was hampered by his obligations to the church.

With a little foresight, you can attend the shows you want and be prepared for a great time.

Safety experts state that most of these accidents are preventable with planning and foresight.

You can download a copy of the skills foresight plan from the Care Councilâs website by clicking here.

Its subject is human life told in the allegory of King Heart in his castle, surrounded by his five servitors (the senses), Queen Plesance, Foresight and other courtiers.

Her foresight warned the Cullens of James' intent, Victoria's return and the machinations of the Volturi.

Baldwin raised them to great prosperity by his energy and foresight, and chiefly as a result of the active political and military support he rendered to the emperors Henry VII., Louis the Bavarian and Charles IV.

Rome, in a certain sense, showed itself possessed of far greater foresight.

To the wise foresight which, at a moment when the country was sinking beneath a weight of debt, did not hesitate to add this million for expenditure on productive works, the present prosperity of Egypt is largely due.

Chicken people need more foresight, and, due to their basic reckless and erratic nature, they seesaw between being rich and poor.

With a little planning and foresight; however, you can score some discounts to your favorite theme parks.

She is a seer who has the gift of foresight.

In fact, many celebrities keep a psychic on speed dial should they be in need of quick advice or foresight.

He was the only Russian statesman of the day with sufficient foresight to grasp the fact that the Baltic seaboard, or even a part of it, was worth more to Muscovy than ten times the same amount of territory in Lithuania, and, despite ignorant jealousy of his colleagues, succeeded (Dec. 1658) in concluding a three-years' truce whereby the Muscovites were left in possession of all their conquests in Livonia.

This risk, however, was obviated by the foresight of Emma, who carried her lover across the courtyard of the palace; a scene which was witnessed by Charlemagne, who next morning narrated the occurrence to his counsellors, and asked for their advice.

For this result the European Powers signatories of the Brussels Act of 1892 are to blame for lack of foresight and to some extent of goodwill.

Ketteler was rather a man of action than a scholar, and he first distinguished himself as one of the deputies of the Frankfort National Assembly, a position to which he was elected in 1848, and in which he soon became noted for his decision, foresight, energy and eloquence.

The transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882 were observed by expeditions trained for the purpose beforehand with every possible foresight, and sent out by the British,.

The real answer is for politicians to show foresight.

All that human foresight could devise for the consolidation and perpetuation of the newly established Hungarian empire had been done by Matthias in the last years of his reign.

With a little bit of planning and foresight, however, it's possible to pull off a lovely meal that both you and your date will enjoy.

On the seashore fishing naturally became a means of livelihood, and dwellers by the sea, in virtue of the dangers to which they are exposed from storm and unseaworthy craft, are stimulated to a higher degree of foresight, quicker observation, prompter decision and more energetic action in emergencies than those who live inland.

There was much jealousy of Dr Bunting, the master mind of Methodism, to whose foresight and wisdom large part of its success was due.

Between the perhaps excessive admiration of Innocent's biographer, Friedrich von Hurter, and the cooler estimate of a later historian, Felix Rocquain, who, after taking into consideration Innocent's political mistakes, lack of foresight and numerous disappointments and failures, concludes that his reputation has been much exaggerated, it is possible to steer a middle course and form a judgment that is at once impartial and conformable to the historical facts.

Had he remained in office his declarations leave no doubt that he would have cultivated the British alliance and cooperated with Great Britain in Egypt; and when the Freycinet administration, which succeeded, shrank from that enterprise only to see it undertaken with signal success by England alone, Gambetta's foresight was quickly justified.

Goethe proved the soul of the Weimar government, and a minister of state of energy and foresight.

Fortunately, the plans for defence had been well and truly laid by Cadorna in the limited time that was available, and, still more fortunately, his foresight had caused elaborate preparations to be made on Monte Grappa.

The rise of Birkenhead, from a hamlet of some 50 inhabitants in 1818 to its present importance, was due in the first place to the foresight and enterprise of William Laird, who purchased in 1824 a few acres of land on the banks of a marshy stream, known as Wallasey Pool, which flowed into the Mersey about 2 m.

Stephen, though he had shown some enterprise and capacity in his successful snatch at the crown, was a man far below his three predecessors on the throne in the matter of perseverance and foresight.

The political writing, too, much of it in a garish, extravagant style, exercised his deeper ambitions, and stands as witness to the working of original thought and foresight.

Breadth of view, insight, foresight, are more familiar but less adequate descriptions of a faculty which Disraeli had in such force that it took command of him from first to last.

This he did in writing Coningsby, a novel of the day and for the day, but commended to us of a later generation « syb%» not only by the undimmed truth of its character portraits, but by qualities of insight and foresight which we who have seen the proof of them can measure as his contemporaries could not.

Such foresight had its reward, the more because it was buttressed during the debates of the Convention by the same readiness in debate, the same clear recognition of essentials, the same natural disposition towards compromise on details, and the same quickness in producing verbal formulae, as Smuts had already shown in the Transvaal Parliament.

Lucky I had the foresight to record a diary every day for the last ten years.

We must use great foresight, patience, understanding... .

With great foresight, the new Republic opened the market to foreign mining ventures.

If only our current leaders had had such foresight.

He provides technology foresight support to a number of organizations.

Success in battle is due to good generalship and political foresight.

While costly government action generally follows each media outcry, Parliament does not always have the foresight to limit risk in advance.