prevision

• “What so baffles our prevision is the shifting part played by the margin and focus -- in fact, by each element by itself of the margin or focus -- in calling up the next ideas.”

  Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals

• “But however this may be, it is clear that as fast as the notion of equality gained definiteness, so fast did that lowest kind of quantitative prevision which is achieved without any instrumental aid, become possible.”

  Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library

• “Whatever was done was the completion of previous government plans, no new investment, no consideration for population growth and what is worse, no prevision to fight a new El Niño effect already felt in 2003-2004.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk

• “But Agno was a chill-blooded philosopher and bided his time, being different from Jerry in that he possessed human prevision and could adjust his actions to remote ends.”

  CHAPTER XV

• “The author interviewed 12 architects before he found one who understood his need for prevision.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Crime Writer's Refuge

• “Hobart Flail, who implied that he had the gift of prevision, was always making such forecasts, but in a sadistic manner, as though thrashing us.”

  Fictionaut: Beard

• “But the decorum of yesteryear was, such that if one were known to be awkward with little ones or to abhor pets, prevision would be made to keep a valued guest's discomfort or annoyance at a minimum.”

  Michael Henry Adams: Why I Hate dogs: Useful Advice for Summer Guests and Hosts

• “Smart Grid technology is used by electricity utilities for grid management applications such as outage prevision and management, advanced metering, preventive maintenance, asset management and optimisation and load management and control.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “It is a personal sense of achievement that one had the prevision, just like buying a share, whose price soars.”

  Why to waste the vote?

• “Do not, like them, entertain a desperate craving for things out of your reach; you know that by prevision many successes are gained, but few or none by mere greed.”

  The History of the Peloponnesian War

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