We don't think that is the right reform. This isn't just a system designed to get rid of bad directors or run directors out. It's designed to say to every director, 'you have to get elected.' We want to make every director accountable. . . . If they know they have to get elected, that it's not a foregone conclusion, then boards become better functioning entities and more aggressive in how they do their job.
Quotes about foregone (15 Quotes)
It's nice that's it over with, I think it's kind of been a foregone conclusion for it seems like forever. We're not overly excited about it. It was just a matter of time. We've got bigger and better things we want to accomplish.
We now have three federal appeals courts that have invalidated the federal partial birth abortion law. Most people predicted this, but it wasn't a foregone conclusion.
We regard Microsoft's loss to be a foregone conclusion, which subjects it to damages that will likely be undetermined for a period of months. We also believe the issuing of the conclusions of law opens Microsoft to a flood of civil lawsuits seeking monetary damages.
His coming was a godsend. We needed that personality to guide the museum through the early days. When he came on board, it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a success.
Everybody just thought it was a foregone conclusion.
In a sense, it's a foregone conclusion as to what the final vote is going to be,
In a nourishing relationship, compromise is a foregone conclusion.
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.
If the Roberts confirmation is a foregone conclusion, why look like a knee-jerk obstructionist ... Its far better to preserve the appearance of being fair-minded and try to convince the president he has a chance to get your vote if he nominates someone to your liking. It also gives you the ability to oppose the next nominee with greater credibility.
Tomorrow is largely a foregone conclusion in the mind of the market.
Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.
When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be some kind of excuse for things not being able to be implemented that are deemed necessary for the successful realization of the music. I know that this is sounding clumsy and that it could easily be misinterpreted, but one doesn't have to be a brain trust to make the observation that I've just made.
I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that you may have to abandon the Moon. What we're headed for on the Moon is a South Pole analogsome kind of camp that we set up and sustain ourselves for months at a time, not years.
To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.