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- adverb In a manner that could be foreseen.
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Examples
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Why in the world is it good politics to offer the conservative-looking blank-slate candidate first, when she would so obviously be a natural choice as the best candidate for a foreseeably more closely contested process down the road.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010
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It was "foreseeably the worst result," the bank said, echoing similar comments from several other Spanish banks.
Banco Popular Takes More Write-downs Christopher Bjork 2011
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What is the basis for arguing that renting a single-family dwelling to him makes him less foreseeably a danger than a “large apartment complex”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime? 2010
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Why in the world is it good politics to offer the conservative-looking blank-slate candidate first, when she would so obviously be a natural choice as the best candidate for a foreseeably more closely contested process down theroad.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010
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Predictably and predicted, foreseeably and foreseen, by me, George Cunningham, and indeed Enoch Powell, during the Commons debates of 1977 – 79, a Scottish Parliament, once established, is going to ask for more and more, and will remain discontented until such time it has got it.
Cameron is Wrong. The Conservatives did get it right. O'Neill 2009
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Stephen Lathrop: Why in the world is it good politics to offer the conservative-looking blank-slate candidate first, when she would so obviously be a natural choice as the best candidate for a foreseeably more closely contested process down theroad.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010
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Such disclosures could arrest momentum toward a foreseeably disastrous U. S.-supported attack, as the same finding did in 2007. 4.
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The response to any e-mail survey is foreseeably weak.
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The response to any e-mail survey is foreseeably weak.
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Haiti is also the latest in a string of nearly annual megadisasters extending back through the past decade, calamities claiming tens of thousands of lives more because poverty and the forces of nature met with foreseeably tragic consequences.
Averting Disaster 2010
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