Nobody could have missed the stomach-churning plunges in Asia's currencies and stockmarkets last year.
If mediocrity and maddening inconsistency have any benefit, it is that they produce scenarios nobody could have imagined.
Nobody could have foreseen such a simple game retaining so much power in the market three years after its initial release.
Obviously, as has been said by your administration many times, nobody could have predicted that all this was going to happen.
Nobody could have predicted how far it would go, and nobody would ever understand what had led up to the final moments.
But nobody could have foreseen the magnitude of the catastrophe: the sheer, sudden force of the flooding on the night of December 15th was without precedent in Venezuela.
Nobody could have foreseen that almost 200 years after its birth, the United States would fulfill the science-fiction fantasies of little boys everywhere and put a man on the moon.
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When President Bush told "Good Morning America" on Thursday morning that nobody could have "anticipated" the breach of the New Orleans levees, it pointed to not only a remote leader in denial, but a whole political class.
Let me tell you, I feel extraordinarily confident, in part because of the great friends here who -- some of you have been with me since 2007, when nobody could pronounce my name. (Laughter.) I also feel enormous confidence because we have an extraordinarily dynamic new DNC chair in Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Powerful as it was in places, that manuscript, published pretty much as he had left it, was pitifully incomplete and nobody could really be sure how Pasolini would have brought it to completion.
And Everton nearly equalised after a brilliantly incisive run down down the right from Seamus Coleman - who had replaced the injured Rodwell - but nobody was on hand to apply what could have been a simple finish.
"At the margin, this could reduce demand, but nobody should have been buying this stuff on the basis there wasn't a material probability of at least one junk rating at some point in the future, " Mr. McNamara said of the bond sale's postponement.
"I could have coped with them dying from prematurity, as that would have been nobody's fault, " she said.
Michael Eisner wrote an autobiography a couple of years ago, and nobody reading that tight-lipped, self-congratulatory volume could have concluded that he was a likeable sort of guy.
But nobody seems to think she could solve the deep, systemic problems that have crippled the country's economy.
Portsmouth voters will be hoping that, by the time a new government of whatever stripe takes office, so much steel will have been cut, and so much money spent on the ships, that nobody could think of scrapping them.
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While nobody was hurt in the derailment on a Saturday lunchtime, the 43-page RAIB report states the incident could have happened elsewhere with severe consequences.
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