foresightedness

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A tale of two suburbs: signs of failure and success For many communities, racial integration is a worthy but difficult goal, a challenge to the foresightedness and ingenuity of their civic leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

An odd incident, valuable to those who value foresightedness in this world's affairs, occurred at the time Scott was lodged at the vicar's, Mr Bridges.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

The sagacity that Taswell Skaggs displayed in erecting an ice plant and cold storage house here is equalled only by John Wyckholme's foresightedness in maintaining a contemporaneous mint bed.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr

And with her customary cleverness and foresightedness she called him up at the hospital.

From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham

If she has laid in a box of sage and one of mixed dressing with, perhaps, some paprika and thyme, she views her foresightedness with much complacency.

From Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Moore, Cora