farsighted

IPA: fˈɑrsˈaɪtʌd

Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.
Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.

Examples of "farsighted" in Sentences

These people are not "farsighted" but criminally shortsighted.
A few farsighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention.
Expecting him to be more morally farsighted than his time is not unreasonable.
The more farsighted of the Palestinians no doubt realize this, which is why they have to keep the issue alive. john says:
There's a good argument to be made, and Krugman and others are making it, that the President's plans are all well in good but maybe a little too farsighted.
The region, more than any other part of the country, needs that kind of farsighted investment, but instead it is treated to the shortsighted policies of the Southern politicians of the past.
Stuff like this is not going to happen without farsighted technical vision from real scientists in control of the direction of NASA, not just politicians with good connections to the Whitehouse.
This is really what I think secretaries of state should be doing, which is a kind of farsighted look into how the United States is going to implement its foreign policy agenda in the 21st century. "
No group articulated this revisionist interpretation of Desert Storm with greater fervor and persistence than the very same militarists mostly but not exclusively Republicans who in 1991 had cheered President Bush as a courageous and farsighted statesman.