fore-sight

Would Thurmond, like Harry Truman, have had the fore-sight to develop the Marshall Plan, form NATO, oversee the Berlin airlift and act on the dismal treatment of minorities in the United States?

Mail Call 2007

Praiseworthy Ladies, the name of Nicoletta, so fondly affected by Calandrino, putteth mee in minde of a Novell, concerning another Nicoletta, of whom I purpose to speake: to the ende you may observe how by a sudden wary fore-sight, a discreet woman compassed the meanes to avoyde a notorious scandall.

The Decameron 2004

Of fore-sight, to let him Live a spye upon my Actions.

The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne

The better you study his views, the more you are astonished at his wisdom and fore-sight; the deeper your scrutiny of his motives, the higher your respect for his sanctity.

The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

It is, however, a notable example of the Gothic of the South, and of the modifications which that style invariably underwent, through the artistic caprice of its builders, or the political fore-sight of their patrons, the Bishops.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

I inserted the clip, and lay there with my fore-sight following the disk ship in its steady circling flight.

Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell

Ernest then drew from his pocket the large shell he had procured for his own use, and scooping up a good quantity of soup he put it down to cool, smiling at his own fore-sight.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

For example, if our machine was flying at the rate of one hundred miles per hour and the enemy's machine was travelling past us in the opposite direction at an equal rate, our fore-sight nullified our motion and enabled us to shoot as if from a stationary base, while our back-sight helped us to gauge that imaginary point at which to shoot where our bullets and the enemy machine would meet.

Night Bombing with the Bedouins Robert Henry Reece

This again carries an observation glass fitted with an eye-piece which can be turned in the vertical plane in the same manner as that of the fore-sight.

Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

A quick adjustment of bomb-sights to compensate for the altitude, speed, and drift of the plane and the front fore-sight soon is in line with the target, and after a pause the back fore-sight coming in line with the back-sight gives, with the previously adjusted stop-watch, the exact moment for releasing the first bombs.

Night Bombing with the Bedouins Robert Henry Reece