Investors assumed that sales would flatten, but no one seemed to envisage a Vioxx recall.
At the same time, few have dared to envisage a peace process without him.
But the former Manchester United player preferred to envisage lifting the trophy than reproducing his scoring heroics.
It is no longer fanciful to envisage America's Dollars100 billion local phone market being carved up between two super-regional monopolies.
It is harder to envisage a mass expulsion of Ireland, Belgium and much of the Mediterranean, whatever Mr Henkel may say.
Yet it is hard to envisage a political comeback for Mr Anwar.
It is hard to envisage civil servants taking the risk of going back to the rebel-held north if even the prime minister's security cannot be assured.
Their ownership structures are more complex than those of building societies, making it harder to envisage a showdown like the one about to happen at Nationwide's annual meeting.
To envisage what Republicans would do if they win in November, the person to understand is not necessarily Romney, who has been a policy cipher all his public life.
Just as Marx failed to envisage progress faster than he had witnessed in his own time, so today's new-economy sceptics may have fallen victim to a failure of imagination.
It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the labour force.
Western countries used the end of the cold war to slash defence budgets in the 1990s, but given continued military action in Afghanistan and the threat of terrorism, further big reductions are hard to envisage.
Yet barring a deus ex machina, such as a foreign-policy crisis, a Tory super-scandal or an improbably rapid economic recovery, a route to victory for the government at the next election is increasingly difficult to envisage.
This is a building that has until now been rather more impressive from the outside, but the opening of the underground sections means that visitors will be able to envisage the entertainments held here from a new, if chilling perspective.
The Director-General also invited the Minister to envisage establishing a Funds-in-Trust in UNESCO that could help support shared priorities of the Organization and of Russia, notably in the area of sciences in Africa considering Russia's expertise and excellence in this field.
Held in the company of some telesecundaria teachers who already work as tutors, it was agreed to hold a broader workshop as soon as possible so that they can gain a wider and deeper insight into the topic as well as to envisage the possible areas in which they could use the model.
Lib Dem Lord Storey then asked to what extent the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre had met its intended objectives, what plans the government had for this centre, and what improvements it would envisage to this model if it were to be further replicated.
Whether or not this is going to be a major application of our product I don't know but this is definitely something I envisage it leading to.
Already I could envisage opportunities to use all sorts of different laces and braids, detailed examples of hand stitching, with some other antique dresses we'd picked up from a local supplier.
Even when people do not much believe in the hereafter, they easily invoke or envisage heavenly beings to ease death and make some sense of life.
Current plans, according to the minister of labour, envisage a single union with separate representatives for different industries.
Capital Controls do not form part of the envisaged resolution regime which is the only distinguishing factor of the Cyprus bailout which Dijsselbloem failed to express but he certainly does not envisage capital controls as being the model for Europe.
He said there were many occasions when such super-injunctions were "amply justified" but said he could not envisage a court ordering Parliament not to discuss a topic.
While McLeish doesn't envisage his biocatalytic technology being able to service the fuel needs of all motorists, he is confident that it can perform profitably on a smaller scale.
Rather, debt relief needs to go faster and further even than its proponents envisage.
Most athletes subject themselves to years of intensive training because they can clearly envisage the end goal.
For now, Bulgari does not envisage lowering its advertising spend in other magazines to reflect the new investment.
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As if to confirm this, few of this week's mergers envisage big cost-savings as their main objective (the link-up of two American insurers, Unum and Provident, may be an exception).
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"We don't envisage any issue within the country posing a major hindrance to recovery, " he asserts.
Reform could also save taxpayers' money, although most proposed reforms envisage keeping the public purse open and paying farmers not to farm, rather than paying them to overproduce.
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