They were an unstoppable juggernaut, a team built specifically for the postseason because the regular season was a foregone conclusion. |
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But by that time, Smith and Joyce had posted a stand of 100 and the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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Although the votes are still being counted the results are a foregone conclusion. |
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The gathering broke up and everyone said the verdict was a foregone conclusion. |
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We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed. |
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He says that it is a foregone conclusion that Labour will win the next election. |
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And by now it's a foregone conclusion that these two stars will generate a certain special something anytime they're paired together. |
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Yet that those gods whose inevitable death Walcott laments have lost their sacral force is not at all a foregone conclusion. |
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It is an election devoid of drama and excitement as the result seems a foregone conclusion. |
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They knew pretty early on the result was a foregone conclusion, Labour were too far ahead to be caught. |
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Indeed, it appears that the dispatch was a foregone conclusion rather than the result of a detailed survey. |
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The public defenders representing Workman at trial told him his guilt was a foregone conclusion. |
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Although it is not a foregone conclusion that patients with dysplasia will develop cancer, dysplasia remains the best indicator of cancer risk. |
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To stay up any later would have been pointless, the results almost a foregone conclusion. |
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The result gave the lie to cynics who suggested the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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Although the decentralisation of euro markets is a reality, their segmentation should obviously not be seen as a foregone conclusion. |
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Far from a foregone conclusion, poverty is the result of man-made inequalities and injustices. |
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Sport is never that engaging when the result is a foregone conclusion. |
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There was still 23 minutes left but the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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To be preoccupied with equality under such circumstances is to be preoccupied with a foregone conclusion. |
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It should have been a foregone conclusion that a predatory offender like Toft would have to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. |
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Indeed, to members of the Yes campaign in the final days, victory was a foregone conclusion. |
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However, the referendum which took place in the Republic of Ireland recently has reminded us that ratification is not a foregone conclusion. |
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But we cannot carry on endlessly, restating well-known positions as in a ritual exercise with a foregone conclusion. |
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Some now refer to green shoots as if the global recovery is a foregone conclusion or even as if sustainable growth had already begun. |
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That the relationship between the different poles of power should sink into hostility in the near future is no foregone conclusion. |
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The Court stated that procedural chaos arising out of multiple proceedings was not a foregone conclusion. |
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His close involvement in the anniversary year was not a foregone conclusion, however. |
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Moreover, judge Abdel-Rahman made statements indicating that the guilt of Saddam Hussein was a foregone conclusion. |
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This change must, of course, also affect State aids: the principle of their incompatibility with competition is not a foregone conclusion. |
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While this is generally true in terms of the process and delivery results, it is not a foregone conclusion in terms of longer term outcomes. |
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For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion. |
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As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion. |
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Critics were so certain that Bryan Cranston would win that it seemed a foregone conclusion. |
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It was by no means a foregone conclusion that the UK would get involved. |
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Batting doesn't take a lot of mastering and, once you have, you can have a good slog at the fielding sides' expense, turning the game into a foregone conclusion. |
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But with Liverpool likely to field a weakened team to face an obdurate Burnley side buoyed by back-to-back wins and clean sheets, it may not be such a foregone conclusion. |
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The decision as to whether this hare-brained scheme goes ahead is currently with the First Minister but the council is behaving as if it is a foregone conclusion. |
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Having to optimize the two clearing systems SIC and euroSIC became a foregone conclusion since the effort of maintaining and operating two practically identical software libraries would have been excessively high. |
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So I believe that we should not see war as a foregone conclusion. |
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While it certainly is a possibility, it is not a foregone conclusion. |
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The acquisition process is often long and complex and, notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the organizations involved, their success is unfortunately not a foregone conclusion. |
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Not least because of the international character of our company, it is a foregone conclusion for us to provide assistance wherever people, and especially children, are in need all over the world. |
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This is pioneering work in fields which have barely been touched and which require new methodologies, so the results are by no means a foregone conclusion. |
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To be sure, Republican rule of the Senate is not a foregone conclusion. |
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The way she tells it, a career in filmmaking was practically a foregone conclusion. |
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In fact, I understand that in many cases, crown prosecutors do not even pursue bail hearings because it is seen as a foregone conclusion that the accused will be released. |
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Should the leading rider drop down below the measuring line he shall be relegated unless he does so involuntarily and unless, at that moment, the result may be considered a foregone conclusion. |
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The AssoDistil stressed that the beneficiaries of the measure notified are not known and it is not a foregone conclusion that they will be the same as those which benefited under the previous measure. |
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In particular, I would like to tell you how much we appreciate the great professionalism and skill you have displayed in bringing us to the point we have reached today, something which was not a foregone conclusion. |
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An album's worth of brand new New York Dolls compositions, as unlikely as it may have seemed in 2003, was a foregone conclusion after wildly successful festival and live dates that spanned the past two years. |
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The outcome of this interspecies warfare is a foregone conclusion, however: battered but unbowed, the mice are defeating the humans. Out in its isolation, Gough is home to animals found nowhere else. |
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However it is a well known fact that the trial given to Henry Vane as to his own person, and defence of his own part played for the Long Parliament was a foregone conclusion. |
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