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To be sure, Republican incumbents will be raising a great deal of money, so the outcome of the 2018 midterm election is not a foregone conclusion.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the Democratic frontrunner, though her nomination is not a foregone conclusion.
There is also bipartisan agreement that the foregone revenues from a rate reduction should be covered mainly by broadening the tax base – the same approach adopted in the 1986 tax reform.
Jobs have gone, incomes have been lost and opportunities foregone.
When one considers that large swaths of society still struggle daily with the forces of institutionalized racism, the persistence of large health disparities would seem to be a foregone conclusion.
Among many other decisions that have worked out well for them, both countries have foregone a standing army.
Putin’s Brezhnev SyndromePARIS – The winner of Sunday’s legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion: United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin.
But this need not be a foregone conclusion.
This outcome is hardly a foregone conclusion.
Putin’s Pyrrhic VictorySTOCKHOLM – Vladimir Putin’s reelection to a fourth term as Russia’s president was a foregone conclusion.
This translates into about $900 billion of foregone goods and services this year alone – a tremendous waste reflected in an unemployment rate of 7.9% and a poverty rate of 15%, significantly higher than the average of the past 30 years.
That is an extraordinarily large amount of foregone prosperity – and a far worse outcome than was expected.
Opposition parties, recognizing that the outcome of most votes is a foregone conclusion, treat parliament not as a solemn deliberative body, but as a theater to demonstrate their power to disrupt.
But that should be only a secondary consideration, because the present value of the foregone licensing fees or royalties would figure implicitly in any investment deal.
That is far from a foregone conclusion in Azerbaijan, where the last stint in power by some of the opposition leaders in 1992-1993 still evokes bitter memories of a time of war and crisis that few can recall without horror.
But a rate cut would be costly in terms of foregone revenues: each percentage point would reduce corporate-tax revenues by about $100 billion over the next decade.
An across-the-board reduction in tax rates performs poorly in terms of budgetary effectiveness (the number of jobs created per dollar of foregone revenue).
“If marriage is a source of income for women,” write Edlund and Korn “then the prostitute has to be compensated for foregone marriage market opportunities.”
Both he and the opposition know that the result of the plebiscite is not a foregone conclusion.
Donald CaesarWASHINGTON, DC – The outcome of the US Senate’s trial of Donald Trump, following his impeachment by the House of Representatives, was a foregone conclusion.
The second critical component is a mechanism that impels emerging and less-developed economies to buy in to emissions reduction, which can be very costly in terms of foregone growth.
But, because policymakers will be pressured to do something, “crazy” policy responses will become a foregone conclusion.
When Central and Eastern European countries resist tougher climate policies, they often cite concerns about industrial job losses and foregone prosperity.
The outcome of Brexit remains uncertain, even as the likelihood of May’s own exit becomes a foregone conclusion.
But with Putin controlling both the court and the ballot box, a positive outcome is a foregone conclusion.
But impunity for perpetrators of crimes against journalists is not a foregone conclusion.
But achieving this lofty goal would impose high costs on Australians in terms of foregone income and actual taxes – estimated by economist Brian Fischer to be AUD10,000-20,000 ($7,000-14,000) per capita over a decade.
At the same time, a meaningful countercyclical fiscal stimulus package will be a foregone conclusion.
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