foregone conclusion

Why has it taken so many generations to reach a foregone conclusion?

That she would hate a soulless creature he accepted as a foregone conclusion.

But his judgment was a foregone conclusion; Mr. Flaxman Reed was not large-minded.

Then McCandless voiced what the Captain had already taken to be a foregone conclusion.

Our defeat is a foregone conclusion: the Senoussi is too strong for us.

If any one found our trail that would make it a foregone conclusion.

The race was a short one, and the result a foregone conclusion.

It was a foregone conclusion that they would consider him a fakir and a crook.

How he will answer this question is of course a foregone conclusion.

Of course Hanny couldn't go; that was a foregone conclusion.