0 a result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens: --
The result of the election seems to be a foregone conclusion.
That is, that once a proposal is made it is not a foregone conclusion that the railway is going to be closed.
It has been taken as a foregone conclusion for the past two decades that video is an inevitable component of the language teaching and learning scene.
This failure was not a foregone conclusion.
The number of publications which assume that the existence of the unemployment trap and its problematic effects are a foregone conclusion is overwhelming.
For this reason, a bid for prestige is always a "bid," not a foregone conclusion.
The debate that year about the state's constitutional system was seemingly destined, then, to a foregone conclusion.
Indeed, it would be a mistake to see the exclusion of women from subsequent institutions of science as a foregone conclusion.
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.
