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  • Wilson (perhaps alone, perhaps with party fore-knowledge) planned this to raise cash and make himself the martyr/hero of the radical right.

    Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president 2009

  • With the quick glance and fore-knowledge of a woman, Saxon saw, not merely the curious children clustering about, but the peering of adult faces from open doors and windows, and past window-shades lifted up or held aside.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • This whole operation was so perverse, and the fore-knowledge that these guns would be used to kill human beings rather than being used for hunting purposes is so clear, it seems obvious that the masterminds who approved "Operation Fast and Furious" should be facing criminal investigation.

    The Drug War's Blithe Acceptance of Needless Deaths 2011

  • Or, in other words most things are highly predictable because the uncertainity is concentrated in a few high impact events for which there is almost no fore-knowledge.

    Out of Your Opening Book, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • This whole operation was so perverse, and the fore-knowledge that these guns would be used to kill human beings rather than being used for hunting purposes is so clear, it seems obvious that the masterminds who approved "Operation Fast and Furious" should be facing criminal investigation.

    The Drug War's Blithe Acceptance of Needless Deaths 2011

  • The reasons for this involve fore-knowledge of the event and human choice, which can effect the outcome, which leads back to a fundamental error in the system.

    J.D.’s Top 10 Movies that Prove the Future Will Suck » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • I dragooned several of my theatrically-based friends into the story without their fore-knowledge, and crafted the play out of TV series titles.

    MUSEUM PIECE - 04/01/10 Toby O'B 2010

  • He forcefully and beautifully describes God's knowledge and power (omniscience and omnipotence) in a way that includes His fore-knowledge of possibilities of future events, not of events as such as a fixed order of things -- a notion that admits of freely exercised creativity on the part of humankind as participants in the divine course of events.

    Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010

  • He forcefully and beautifully describes God's knowledge and power (omniscience and omnipotence) in a way that includes His fore-knowledge of possibilities of future events, not of events as such as a fixed order of things -- a notion that admits of freely exercised creativity on the part of humankind as participants in the divine course of events.

    Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010

  • Amar Bhide breaking up the Fed for capitalist reasons might extend the life of private capitalism over public banks, but the results for humanity might be even worse than the obvious cartel that is the present non-federal Federal Reserve Banks, whose masters made out like the thieves they were/are when with fore-knowledge of what was about to happen on October 29, 1929.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Rob Kall Radio: Breaking Up the Fed and Interview with Glen Ford 2009

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