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lack of foresight

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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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Examples of lack of foresight


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Given this lackofforesight or commitment, households tend to save less than is optimal, and thus government intervention may improve welfare.
The lackofforesight and later equanimity in the face of a major emerging social problem may also be attributed to the very persuasiveness of the new labour model.
Those who repent of their lackofforesight and endeavour to make hurried gifts towards the end of their lives will be penalised.
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We have had recent evidence of the lackofforesight in this winter's coal situation.
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It is that improvidence and lackofforesight which is the greatest possible danger.
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That was because of sheer lackofforesight and management.
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There was no question of discontinuity or lackofforesight as to what might arise.
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How can we have any confidence in a régime which has shown such a lackofforesight and such misjudgment?
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Again, in the case of this electronics industry we have another unhappy illustration of lackofforesight in planning our defence.
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Who is responsible for this lackofforesight?
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The lackofforesight has meant a great deal of trouble in this country.
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Here again, it is not a case of lackofforesight.
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I must, however, mark his total lackofforesight.
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There was a great lackofforesight in arranging for supplies of these things.
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It is purely out of the lackofforesight that 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 considerable lackofforesight.
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I think they have to thank themselves for their present difficulties, which are largely due to their lackofforesight.
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Foreign countries, as we know by experience in the past, are only too ready to take advantage of any lackofforesight upon our part.
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Our transport system, for whatever reasons—lackofforesight or 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 complete lackofforesight.
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