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  • The far-seeing defense strategist was one of those who helped win that long twilight struggle, as it was once known, without a U.S.

    Fred Iklé 2011

  • Gilad Sharon has his colossus of a father bestriding a stage on which he is the only major actor; as we follow him through his life—the hard-working farm boy, the dashing warrior, the brilliant general, the far-seeing statesman—the rest of the world exists mainly in order to be divided into those who appreciated his worth and those who didn't.

    The Line Between Bold and Reckless Hillel Halkin 2011

  • My preference is that you be brave and far-seeing.

    Intense 2009

  • The PC era can be seen as merely the extension of the superhuman will of this one brilliant, mercurial and far-seeing figure.

    Steve Jobs and the Death of the Personal Computer 2011

  • My preference is that you be brave and far-seeing.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • To idealise, therefore, is not to be blind, but to be far-seeing.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • So strange was she, so in daze and amaze and far-seeing were her eyes, that I was reminded of the lepers I had seen healed in Samaria.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • A truly intelligent, fully informed, and far-seeing virtual computer might well recognize that its long-term survival depends on enveloping the selfish, creative impulses of humanity within a framework that can restrain violence and enforce justice.

    Clay Farris Naff: In The Watson Era, Will The Computer Be Servant, Master, Or Savior? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • Petraeus is "innovative and far-seeing," Crane said.

    Petraeus' war legacy befits his future post at CIA 2011

  • And he told me that had our father, before he died, been as far-seeing as grandfather, half the then Parker holdings would have been added to Kilohana, making Kilohana first.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

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