foregone conclusion

The potential for one-sided matches would increase, while qualifying would become even more a foregone conclusion for many nations than it is already.

“None of this was a foregone conclusion,” Al-Shamahi says, standing on London’s Millennium Footbridge, before the jagged glass peaks of modern British architecture.

On a certain level, it seems like a foregone conclusion.

As the months have worn on, some gubernatorial campaigns have started to think that Harris’ victory feels like less of a foregone conclusion than if she’d announced in January after leaving office.

That makes it a foregone conclusion that Jun-hee will give birth at a most inopportune moment, which she does.