Foregone

At least this grand event is happening, which wasn’t a foregone conclusion while Welsh players were in bitter conflict with their union.

Granted, it was somewhat of a foregone conclusion that Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" was going to find success at the box office.

He said AMWU members had foregone the $5000 boost, and that workers were saying they'd been undervalued for too long and need real wage growth, not a one-off bonus.

It was almost a foregone conclusion that the likes of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey and defensive back Jimmie Ward would leave San Francisco once the market opened.

It would cost the county $199,292 for its portion of foregone tax revenues.

McCord was strongly linked to not long after he entered the portal on Dec. 4. In fact, he took a visit to Lincoln, and it looked like it was a foregone conclusion that he was going to be a Cornhusker.

None of this means that we could have foregone mass vaccination in favour of herd immunity.

Russia has been attacking targets—civilian and military—inside Ukraine; but, with few exceptions, Ukraine has foregone (and, when it comes to using Western weapons, has been instructed to forego) attacking targets inside Russia.

That doesn't mean identifying individuals is a foregone conclusion though and often police require the public's help to track them down.

The attendee interpreted that request as political cover for what was already a foregone conclusion.

The fact that the result in Imran’s trial was a foregone conclusion does not so much reflect the strength of the evidence against him, as the need to obtain his ouster, with the purpose not being to punish his corruption, so much as to neutralize him.

The other four were doing their thing as well, with Vega especially doing a nice job of making herself feel like a bit more than a foregone conclusion to Ripley.

This amounted to nearly $9 billion in foregone tax revenue last year and, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, is set to rise to $20 billion a year within a decade.

Whenever it became public that Jackson State had an interest in Ruffin, many people saw the move as a foregone conclusion.

With the Democart's loss of Manchin's seat in deeply conservative West Virginia a foregone conclusion, Senate Democrats need a pick-up or two of their own to maintain control.

With Wembanyama a foregone conclusion, the No. 2 pick by the Charlotte Hornets was the subject of speculation.

And that dreadful figure does not capture the loneliness and solitude of families separated from each other, the anxiety for business owners, the cancer treatments foregone because of restrictions.

Given that none of the parties, not even the so-called Liberal Democrats, had the backbone to even abstain when MUP was introduced in 2018, the result is a foregone conclusion.

His only significant legislative accomplishment was the 2017 tax cut for the wealthy — a foregone conclusion given that Republicans controlled both houses.

It’s a nice tease that Hunter would be regaining the title, but it almost went too far to the point of making it seem almost like a foregone conclusion.