Even in the moments when it finally gives us meaningful plot decisions, it presents them as foregone conclusions because they are foregone conclusions.
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Injuries hit the N.B.A. hard last week, necessitating a reappraisal of certain foregone conclusions.
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Barnier emphasized that a future deal and a transition to it were not foregone conclusions.
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It asked analysts from the Department of Homeland Security to offer evidence supporting its foregone conclusions.
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"The Great Believers" is peppered with surprises, a minor wonder in a narrative so rife with dreadfully foregone conclusions.
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In races that aren't foregone conclusions by dint of the moment or the place, the superior candidate often wins.
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Fortunately, the current proposal and its associated impacts are not foregone conclusions: The administration's leave policy still needs congressional approval.
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In a year when projected winners in all the major categories were considered foregone conclusions, there were at least three stunning upsets.
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"Washington and New York were probably foregone conclusions when this started," says Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
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But many of the categories were close to being foregone conclusions: nobody needed to open the envelopes to know what was inside them.
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Bulkiness and a lack of sexiness are foregone conclusions for VR tech in general right now, and yes, this rig also has those issues.
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After Wisconsin, the next major primaries are in New York, where, for the first time in almost 30 years, the results are not foregone conclusions.
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Certainly, I had no pressing desire to watch Crystal Palace against Bournemouth, or Southampton against Norwich, or even Leicester against Watford, the ultimate in foregone conclusions.
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Arrangements will only be clarified on the night, but it is highly likely that guarantees, provided by undisclosed third parties, will make these new highs foregone conclusions.
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From the outset, Republicans including Sensenbrenner and Collins have emphasized that they have not committed to any subpoenas or foregone conclusions about the power of Big Tech.
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It undermines the statement of the vice president that there are no foregone conclusions, and it undermines the chair and the vice chair and the rest of the commission.
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If he's clearly so much better than these guys put him in with a decent welterweight because that's what we all want to see, not easy knockouts and foregone conclusions.
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As we've increasingly learned over the last few years, the Oscars, and especially academy voters, aren't operating by the same norms and foregone conclusions that many of us grew up with.
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Algren gives many of the characters Runyonesque names—Owner, Blind Pig, Record Head—because essentially they are mythical figures on a landscape of foregone conclusions, wearily acting out their assigned roles.
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This is a distinction lost on the layperson, but it's a huge deal, introducing a lot more variability and decision-making to a system that was very much a series of foregone conclusions.
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Frank Bruni THOSE who've been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we're pointed toward foregone conclusions.
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With the House vote as well as a Senate trial all but foregone conclusions, the goal from now on will be to keep Republicans in lock step with the president — and on message — as impeachment runs its course.
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Of course, a lot of that is beyond their control, including the aforementioned plethora of options that consumers now have, and an "awards season" that -- in this case of this year's Oscars -- also rendered the four acting nominations suspense-free foregone conclusions.
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As Pagels explains with graceful care, what has come down to us as the religion's fundamental tenets — regarding the reality of Jesus' resurrection, the nature of his martyrdom, the status of women, even monotheism itself — were not foregone conclusions but the victors in fierce (indeed, deadly) struggles for social and political authority.
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In "How Facebook Warps Our Worlds," a May 2016 Op-Ed column reacting to news that month about alleged liberal bias at the company, Frank Bruni writes: Those who've been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we're pointed toward foregone conclusions.
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Among other things he said Clark's history was "over a million printed English words, probably unrivalled in their power to combine the non sequitur with the anticlimax, and to wring the last drops from a series of foregone conclusions".Ryan, "Manning Clark", p. 22. The article aroused considerable controversy, which Ryan dealt with in a subsequent article in Quadrant in October 1994.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 41% based on reviews from 17 critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and wrote: "The movie is a slow march through foregone conclusions, and its curious passivity is underscored, if that is the word, by the quietest soundtrack I can remember." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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The film was met with negative reviews. Roger Ebert wrote, "Basinger gets most of the good comic moments in the movie and does with them what she can, but Benjamin and his writers seem to have run short of invention. Most of the plot developments are foregone conclusions, and most of the big set pieces (like a wedding) are handled routinely, without inspiration." Janet Maslin, reviewing the film for The New York Times, panned the film's screenplay and humor, as well as the performance of Dan Aykroyd, whom she felt was not only miscast as the film's romantic lead, but also unfunny.
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While this configuration afforded excellent maneuverability, it also exhibited natural instability during flight. To compensate, the Lavi was fitted with a sophisticated digital fly-by-wire system which allowed the aircraft to take advantage of this particular wing design while eliminating this shortcoming. The Lavi was one of the first aircraft to feature this type of configuration, which has since become more commonplace amongst fighter aircraft. The adoption of certain components, such as an engine produced by Pratt & Whitney, were viewed as foregone conclusions; the Beit Shemesh engine plant already had an established relationship with the company and planned to co-produce the engine, thus enabling some of the manufacturing to be carried out domestically in Israel.
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