foregone conclusion

Dean considers Michigan as a warning to other states of how quickly new outbreaks may pick up, but she says it’s not a foregone conclusion.

She said we keep talking about it like it is a foregone conclusion that courts will agree that Measure C, like these others, passed with 65 percent of the vote instead of two-thirds.

Even a virus capable of causing a pandemic that brings the world to its knees wasn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion.

Despite support among key City Council members, the changes are not a foregone conclusion.

So even though the result of the certification was supposed to be a foregone conclusion, some wondered whether Nixon would really go through with it.

To be sure, Republican rule of the Senate is not a foregone conclusion.

Indeed, to members of the Yes campaign in the final days, victory was a foregone conclusion.

As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion.

Usually the Best Picture winner is a foregone conclusion by this point—did anyone really think The Artist or Argo would lose?

Critics were so certain that Bryan Cranston would win that it seemed a foregone conclusion.

He must have seen, long before November 1292, that an adverse decision was a foregone conclusion.

It seems to be a foregone conclusion that I shall never hear a good performance of one of my operas.

Finally, a foregone conclusion against her had stolen into Theodore's mind, and this she could not conquer.

Unless they were captured, it was a foregone conclusion that Trymore and Pringle would try to reach the car.

Howells's "Foregone Conclusion" was running in the Atlantic that year, and they delighted in it.