Foregone

Who was to win this match was a foregone conclusion.

Some commentators regard Britain's departure from the European Union as a foregone conclusion.

The results of the ballot are a foregone conclusion.

It's a foregone conclusion.

This match is a foregone conclusion. I'm not even going to watch it.

The outcome of the war was a foregone conclusion.

Choosing Lagarde as the International Monetary Fund's new boss was a foregone conclusion after she won the backing of the IMF's heavyweights — the United States, Russia, China and the Europeans. Hours before the vote, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised what he called her "exceptional talent and broad experience."

"We need a different understanding of revenues and public expenditure. The 15-year freeze on fuel duty and lack of tax on aviation fuel are effectively a huge subsidy to those forms of travel, but they are not described as subsidy because they are foregone revenue. Yet if you invest to hold rail fares, it's seen as subsidy."

For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And time will turn him never.

I know people are still going through the details but it's not a foregone conclusion that it will get confirmation by the Senate.