Thom proposed that this was a foresight to a point on the distant horizon between Beinn Shianaidh and Beinn o ' Chaolias on Jura.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

Thanks to the intelligent foresight of the queen Tanaquil however, the sons of Ancus were not chosen, but rather Tarquinius ' son-in-law Servius Tullius, husband of his daughter Tarquinia, was elected as his successor.

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

The most critical of these was David Thomson's Scott's Men ( 1977 ); in Thomson's view, Scott was not a great man, " at least, not until near the end "; his planning is described as " haphazard " and " flawed ", his leadership characterised by lack of foresight.

William's foresight about the misfortunes of his country was proven correct less than a year later.

While he lacked foresight and was at times cursed by bad judgement, he possessed an uncanny understanding of his most useful subjects, and the vast majority of those who served him remained unwaveringly loyal until his death.

If the accused admits to having a motive consistent with the elements of foresight and desire, this will add to the level of probability that the actual outcome was intended ( it makes the prosecution case more credible ).

The beaver mascot was selected for its associations with " foresight, constructiveness and industrious behaviour ".

However, after being provoked to anger by Oedipus ' accusation first that he has no foresight and then that Tiresias had had a hand in the murder, he reveals that in fact it was Oedipus himself who had ( unwittingly ) committed the crime.

With vision and foresight, he accepted, and in 1885 the Arizona Canal was completed.

His foresight in this grant was the beginning of the town, long before it was incorporated in 1870.

Rolf Wahl, a borough resident, was the man who provided most of the guidance, technical knowledge and foresight for the station.

Howell caused the tract to be duly surveyed and laid out into building lots, and so conducted his enterprise as in the course of a few years to erect a prosperous and desirable village, with churches, public schools, etc., upon what was before, and but for his business foresight and energy would have remained, merely an uninhabitable portion of an old farm.

The suburb of East York was developed with the foresight that industrial expansion would attract a great increase in population.

On the other hand, the serf of a benign lord could look forward to being well fed during his service ; it was a lord without foresight who did not provide a substantial meal for his serfs during the harvest and planting times.

With regard to international commerce Colbert suffered equally from lack of foresight: the tariffs he devised protected commerce to an extreme, and under his tutelage enforcement of trade and quality restrictions was draconian.

It was not until 1789 that six local gentlemen ( two of whom were vicars ) with foresight realised that because of poor transport, due to badly-maintained turnpike roads, the population and industries were dwindling in the Stowmarket area.

In Greek mythology, Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus (" foresight ", literally " fore-thinker "), a pair of Titans who " acted as representatives of mankind " ( Kerenyi 1951, p 207 ).

Epimetheus was responsible for giving a positive trait to every animal, but when it was time to give man a positive trait, lacking foresight he found that there was nothing left.

Strongly influenced by Ludwig von Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory, her fiction has often demonstrated a remarkable foresight in scientific advancements.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

" Messer had the foresight to prepare by staging a smaller sculpture exhibition the previous year, in which he discovered how to compensate for the space's weird geometry by constructing special plinths at a particular angle, so the pieces were not at a true vertical yet appeared to be so.

It represented the proud, dignified and strong image of the rich tradition of this great school district created by the foresight and dedication of the people of the district, the students and the leadership of Superintendent A. I. Jedlicka.

The King of Prussia shopping complex is rare among malls, because it is largely served by a modern energy-saving HVAC central plant and a unique high tension dual automatic switching electrical feeds, attesting to the foresight and sophisticated management style of the original Kravco owners and developers.

" If I owe this triumph to the valour of my troops … you also contributed to it no less by your steadfast daring, by your sage counsel and by your remarkable foresight.

The purpose of a commonwealth is given at the start of Part II: THE final cause, end, or design of men ( who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others ) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, in which we see them live in Commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby ; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of war which is necessarily consequent, as hath been shown, to the natural passions of men when there is no visible power to keep them in awe, and tie them by fear of punishment to the performance of their covenants ....

Geomancy, from Ancient Greek geōmanteía translates literally to " foresight by earth "; it is a translation of the Arabic term ‛ ilm al-raml, or the " science of the sand ".

Had he remained in office, he would have cultivated the British alliance and cooperated with Britain in Egypt ; and when the succeeding Freycinet government shrank from that enterprise only to see it undertaken with signal success by Britain alone, Gambetta's foresight was quickly justified.

He pushed ahead with extending the airfield into land reclaimed from the sea, against the advice of the British government, but was later thanked by the War Cabinet for his foresight when the airfield proved vital to the British Mediterranean campaign.

In addition, if the developer had the foresight to name their tables appropriately, they could clearly refer to a large number of tables open at the same time by notation such as (" employee -> salary ") and (" vacation -> start_date ").

In January 2005, film critic Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said in an article that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was overlooked for an Academy Award because " nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic.

Other versions say that it was Zeus who was angered by Tiresias for saying that men did not get the most out of sex and that it was Hera who gave Tiresias the gift of foresight to comfort him.

Responding to this statement in 1990, Lovelock stated " Nowhere in our writings do we express the idea that planetary self-regulation is purposeful, or involves foresight or planning by the biota ".

It was named after an old-time New Zealand seafarer and scowman, Ted Ashby, who had the foresight to document much of the history of these coastal work horses in his book Phantom Fleet-The Scows and Scowmen of Auckland, which was published by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, in 1976.

Wars are not won primarily by research and development, or even logistics, but by willpower, bravery, tactical foresight, and other military virtues.

Unfortunately, the Oracle herself is eventually taken over by Smith, granting him her power of foresight, or omniscience, as well as reality-bending powers equivalent to those possessed by Neo, such as the ability to fly.

" When you're drowning, you don't say, ' I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.

Regardless of the specific version, Merlin is unable to counteract Viviane because of his foresight ; because of such an ability and the " truth " it holds, he decides to do nothing for his situation other than to continue to teach her his secrets until she takes the opportunity to entrap and entomb him in a tree, a stone or a cave.

In 1998 the Cleveland City Council honored him for having had the " courage and foresight " to stand up to the banks, which saved the city an estimated $ 195 million between 1985 and 1995.

Mr. Peel had the foresight to bring with him, besides, 300 persons of the working-class, men, women, and children.

Frankel was a distant relation, the only mathematician in the extended family, and Hermann's mother had the foresight to engineer a meeting between her young son and the famous man, knowing that this might be the key to enabling him to follow his wishes and become a mathematician himself.

No one can refuse him a tribute for his foresight in this matter ".

The is another one of Muga's doors, and it focuses the power of one's mind, giving him a form of foresight during the game.

That is why they don ’ t have the foresight to complete the work we have started, and that is to fulfill the aspirations of the Fijian people and the release of our brothers in jail ," the Fiji Sun ( 1 March ) quoted him as saying.

Joffre kept him at arm's length from headquarters, although it is widely believed that Gallieni's energy and foresight was what saved Paris from the Germans.

To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the Galáctico policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography " El Macca " ( a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ), in 2004 as the " Disneyfication of Real Madrid " upon his departure from the club ; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming somewhat pejorative to this day.

Undaunted by the great scope of work before him, he saw it as fitting challenge for his abilities, stating the project was " a rare field for the exercise of ingenuity and invention in the correction of mistakes, careless conclusions and want of foresight.

Such passages include Acts 26: 25, " But Paul said, ' I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus " and Acts 24: 2, " Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: ' Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation, [...]"

The two finally consummate their love, though it is revealed that Silica, with her ability of foresight, knew that she was destined to love him, though she tried her very best not to fall in love with him.

The old man cast his left eye into the lake in order to give him his powers of wisdom and foresight ( making the lake roughly analogous to Mimir's well ), and the central character casts both his eyes into the lake, which not only means he gains all its powers of knowledge and vision, but also that he will not have to stare down the Beast during his final battle.

Mr. Peel had the foresight to bring with him, besides, 3, 000 persons of the working-class, men, women, and children.

Przybyszewska was fixated upon Maximilien Robespierre, and attributed to him, in her writing, extraordinary brilliance and powers of foresight.

None knew whether he had the gift of foresight, or whether he merely set the stage for future events with such a bewildering cunning that only an efreet or an adept could evade acting the part given him.

His discipline and foresight during the period would serve him well, leading him, in due course, to be described as Iran's most gifted orator in its modern parliamentary experience.