lack of foresight
collocation in Englishmeaningsofandforesight
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foresight
noun[U]
uk/ˈfɔː.saɪt/us/ˈfɔːr.saɪt/
the ability to judge correctly what is going to happen in the future and plan your actions based on ...
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Given thislackofforesightor commitment, households tend to save less than is optimal, and thus government intervention may improve welfare.
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Thelackofforesightand later equanimity in the face of a major emerging social problem may also be attributed to the very persuasiveness of the new labour model.
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Those who repent of theirlackofforesightand endeavour to make hurried gifts towards the end of their lives will be penalised.
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We have had recent evidence of thelackofforesightin this winter's coal situation.
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It is that improvidence andlackofforesightwhich is the greatest possible danger.
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That was because of sheerlackofforesightand management.
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There was no question of discontinuity orlackofforesightas to what might arise.
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How can we have any confidence in a régime which has shown such alackofforesightand such misjudgment?
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Again, in the case of this electronics industry we have another unhappy illustration oflackofforesightin planning our defence.
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Who is responsible for thislackofforesight?
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Thelackofforesighthas meant a great deal of trouble in this country.
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Here again, it is not a case oflackofforesight.
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I must, however, mark his totallackofforesight.
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There was a greatlackofforesightin arranging for supplies of these things.
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It is purely out of thelackofforesightthat the situation has arisen.
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It seems to me to have been characterised, in the last few months, by a good deal of vacillation and a considerablelackofforesight.
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I think they have to thank themselves for their present difficulties, which are largely due to theirlackofforesight.
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Foreign countries, as we know by experience in the past, are only too ready to take advantage of anylackofforesightupon our part.
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Our transport system, for whatever reasons—lackofforesightor lack of resources—has been allowed to decline too long.
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To have to carry out such reconnaissance at such a stage indicates a completelackofforesight.
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