It wouldn't have been a foregone conclusion, not at all.
That an end must come, eventually, was a foregone conclusion.
The need to use local equipment was a foregone conclusion.
The final decision is by no means a foregone conclusion.
The thing seemed to me to be a foregone conclusion.
"Why do I think the result is a foregone conclusion?"
It was considered a foregone conclusion that he would back next season.
But I do not see that as a foregone conclusion.
So I believe that we should not see war as a foregone conclusion.
As we all know, that was not a foregone conclusion.