Examples of foregone conclusion

• In short, it appears to be a foregone conclusion that women are requesting nonclinical caesarean sections in reasonably large numbers.

• And since such rules have not been formulated, the internalizationist's foregone conclusion is that internalization has been demonstrated.

• Just as poverty eradication is by no means assured without continued policy attention, so is lost forest by no means a foregone conclusion.

• The point is that it makes little difference: their judgement of the ' guilt' of those they are investigating is a foregone conclusion.

• The efficient transfer of electronic excitation from the periphery to the center is hardly a foregone conclusion.

• In a show trial the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

• The parties were close to the median voter; and the election was expected to be the foregone conclusion that it turned out to be.

• Thus, it is not a foregone conclusion that genetic variance in fitness would have been substantially less in traditional societies compared to larger modern populations.