You focus on the foregone option.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This translates into about 900 billion of foregone goods and services this year alone a tremendous waste reflected in an unemployment rate of 7.9 and a poverty rate of 15 , significantly higher than the average of the past 30 years. And the waste accumulates over time the longer the economy operates far below its capacity, the slower the growth in its future capacity as a result of diminished risk taking, foregone investment, and erosion of the skills base.

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.

Jobs have gone, incomes have been lost and opportunities foregone. Tens of millions of people have been added to the hundreds of millions already below the poverty line, reversing progress toward attaining the world s Millennium Development Goals.

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). Payroll tax relief and spending on programs like food stamps and unemployment compensation are much more effective.

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.

Discretionary consumption is typically deferred during recessions, especially for long lasting durable goods such as motor vehicles, furniture, and appliances. 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.

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.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the Democratic frontrunner, though her nomination is not a foregone conclusion. In any case, foreign policy probably will play little role in the decision, as the issues that most concern voters likely to participate in the Democratic primary elections are domestic and economic in nature.

But a rate cut would be costly in terms of foregone revenues each percentage point would reduce corporate tax revenues by about 100 billion over the next decade. Moreover, recent studies indicate that a significant share of the corporate tax burden falls on capital, so a reduction in corporate taxes would weaken the progressivity of the tax system at a time when income inequality is at an all time high.

Emerging estimates of the total fiscal costs of rescue vary by country, but are usually just a few percentage points of GDP. As a result of this crisis, however, government debt to GDP ratios in the United Kingdom and the United States will likely rise by 40 to 50 percentage points, and more important measures of economic harm foregone GDP growth, additional unemployment, and individuals wealth and income losses will rise as well.