You focus on the foregone option.

This outcome is hardly a foregone conclusion.

BRUSSELS Vladimir Putin s return to the Kremlin as Russia s president was always a foregone conclusion.

Had he done so, he might have won (the strategy was clever), but it was not a foregone conclusion.

But this need not be a foregone conclusion.

Jobs have gone, incomes have been lost and opportunities foregone.

PARIS The winner of Sunday s legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin.

We must not allow this catastrophic scenario to become a foregone conclusion.

Nor is it a foregone conclusion that such transfer is always possible.

Weaponization of outer space is not, in our view, a foregone and unavoidable conclusion.

The inclusiveness of such a dialogue was not a foregone conclusion given that Fanmi Lavalas had yet to participate in the political transition process.

Four decades ago, in more genteel times, an opposition legislator once ended a debate whose outcome was a foregone conclusion, with the words, We have the arguments.

When Cortés allegedly burned the Spanish ships, he did not take a poll. Had he done so, he might have won (the strategy was clever), but it was not a foregone conclusion.

Among many other decisions that have worked out well for them, both countries have foregone a standing army.

I would like to underscore here that the outcome of the comprehensive review is not a foregone conclusion.

For example, the Board found that serious delays in the plans to relocate the Newsstand have resulted in significant income foregone.

While some argue that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s re election is a foregone conclusion, the outcome is, in fact, not at all clear.

For example, the Board found that serious delays in the plans to relocate the Newsstand have resulted in significant income foregone (para. 263).

That may not be a foregone conclusion, but it is, we believe, achievable if all make the necessary effort and if current trends continue.

Minimal education and limited income earning possibilities of poorer women lower the costs of foregone economic opportunities while the women bear and raise children.

Once the recession ends and recovery begins, a stock adjustment response takes hold, as households compensate for foregone replacement and update their aging durable goods.

An across the board reduction in tax rates performs poorly in terms of budgetary effectiveness (the number of jobs created per dollar of foregone revenue).

Thirdly, I can assure the Council that the leaders in Kosovo have heard, loud and clear, that the outcome of the comprehensive review is not a foregone conclusion.

As at November 1993, there were 165 (21 per cent) property units listed as vacant. This implies significant over capacity and a considerable amount of rental income foregone.

BRUSSELS Vladimir Putin s return to the Kremlin as Russia s president was always a foregone conclusion. But, when he is sworn in on May 7, he will retake formal charge of a country whose politics even Putin s own political future has turned unpredictable.

It should be borne in mind that the costs for conservation measures should include both the direct costs of implementing conservation measures and the opportunity costs of foregone uses.

And it's a foregone conclusion, if you give a drug at that high a dose, that it will have more side effects and that your new drug will look better.

Opposition parties, recognizing that the outcome of most votes is a foregone conclusion, treat parliament not as a solemn deliberative body, but as a theater to demonstrate their power to disrupt.

Nevertheless, we should not take a positive outcome of the review as a foregone conclusion, nor should we assume that the subsequent launch of a final status process will be automatic.

One congressman here in the United States thinks that the entire investment that the U.S. put into smallpox eradication pays itself off every 26 days in foregone treatment costs and vaccination costs.

The nightmare scenario envisioned by many in Pakistan a nuclear armed country actively targeted by al Qaeda and the Taliban could become a reality. But this need not be a foregone conclusion.

The Provisional Institutions and Kosovo's political leaders should therefore be aware that neither the outcome of the review process nor the initiation of any further steps thereafter is not a foregone conclusion.

One congressman here in the United States thinks that the entire investment that the U.S. put into smallpox eradication pays itself off every 26 days in foregone treatment costs and vaccination costs.

The debt crisis is far from over and manifests itself in reduced consumption, investment and growth, development progress foregone, and in the degradation of social infrastructure and services, as well as of the environment.

In its statement, the Special Committee commended all those who had foregone financial or other opportunities by refraining from sports or cultural contacts with South Africa in order to support international efforts to eliminate apartheid. 186

TEHRAN Iranians will go to the polls on June 12 to elect a new president. While some argue that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s re election is a foregone conclusion, the outcome is, in fact, not at all clear.

That is far from a foregone conclusion in Azerbaijan, where the last stint in power by some of the opposition leaders in 1992 1993 still evokes bitter memories of a time of war and crisis that few can recall without horror.

It should be noted, however, that the balance of payments loss from exports foregone (decrease in foreign exchange availability) should be calculated net of the cost of imports that the affected country would have used to produce the corresponding exports.

It is felt by families who have foregone income and invested in the education of their daughters and sons, only to find themselves continuing to provide income support to their grown children, who are increasingly frustrated and bitter at finding themselves unemployable .

Since the big content markets have grown in line with historic norms, it's not additional growth that piracy has prevented, but copyright math tells us it must therefore be foregone growth in a market that has no historic norms one that didn't exist in the 90's.

Since the big content markets have grown in line with historic norms, it's not additional growth that piracy has prevented, but copyright math tells us it must therefore be foregone growth in a market that has no historic norms one that didn't exist in the 90's.

From the perspective of developing countries these policies suggest that the costs of these reserve holdings in terms of foregone domestic investment and imports are more than offset by the benefits of the high export growth resulting from maintaining competitive exchange rates and the cushion provided against volatility of international capital flows.

In Sri Lanka, food aid is used to compensate poor people for the loss of a day apos s earnings, which are foregone in order to attend courses that emphasize upgrading the skills of selected adult participants, so that they can spread health and nutrition information when they return to their villages.

Donors would provide additional contributions to IDA and AfDF, based on agreed burden shares, to offset dollar for dollar the foregone principal and interest repayments of the debt cancelled. This in essence could be interpreted to mean that those eligible countries will no longer have to pay their debt owed to IDA and AfDF, but they will have less access to future lending or assistance by the same amount.

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