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Able to perform in a very limited capacity within the most immediate, predictable areas of need, using essentially formulaic language.

Certain game play styles and genres sell in a "predictable" sort of way and, thus, appear to have less financial risk associated with them.

'It would be a rather boring Olympics if it was totally predictable, ' he adds.

He went on in Soviet vein: "Russia endeavours to be a predictable, strong and accommodating partner" to its neighbours.

Around the world, market participants stepped back in mass from what, up to then, were standardised, routine, predictable transactions.

The blast from Beijing may have been predictable but it was also out of sync with China's recent conciliatory noises on trade.

Exactly what has scientists so on edge is the fact that the natural rate of decay of atomic particles has always been predictable.

It would be based upon a set of principles, including making rules of origin objective, understandable and predictable.

It was a great night. The happiest of my life. But the only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability.

By using attachment theory both your own behaviour and that of others no longer seems baffling and complex, but rather predictable. . .

Our ability to climb fast provided much more flexibility in our egress routes and made our actions much less predictable to the enemy.

We do not know whether such an evolutionary process--with predictable stages, with known causes and effects--even exists.

In such an environment, I would expect investors to be prepared to pay up for high growth or low but predictable growth.

But now that I've been at it for two years, I realize people are fairly predictable.

In fact, if you look at what has happened with major corporations recently, downsizing is often not predictable.

Implant osseointegration is no longer the major issue; the esthetic outcome, especially in the anterior regions is not always predictable.

Gossip in the workplace tends to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults are more subtle and the conversations less predictable.

Also, the word predictable is a locus of the confusion and misunderstanding between the traditional and Agile development communities.

These effects were all unanticipated, and yet we're discovering they're predictable.

The Metronome garbage collector's performance lets you achieve predictable execution down to a precision of a few milliseconds.

So far, American manufacturers have had to suck up most of the increase in the prices of their raw materials, with predictable consequences.

In the stag-hunt example, the will of the rabbit-snatcher was rational and predictable from his own point of view.

But, for me, the problem with school atlases was that they stuck to the curriculum and tended to be predictable and conservative.

All our love lives follow predictable cycles. You know, like that buddy of yours who seems to always date the abusive man.

Many should not have been allowed in, and there has been a predictable rash of frauds and governance problems.

All of that seems to add up to a single, reliable, and predictable update to WjcCounter per client round-trip to the CE server.

For anyone trying to understand the big picture, predictable seasonal gyrations just get in the way.

In the second level the pumpkins moved in less predictable patterns and made things a bit more challenging (but only a little bit).

Consistency among the various mechanisms that expose elements' interest levels helps make the Focused UI predictable and easy to use.

But he said being comfortable and predictable by recording the same kind of music is not the place for rock music.

Over the past hundred years or so, the science of astronomy has been utterly predictable, in an utterly unpredictable sort of way.

Rockets flew much faster and required inertial guidance for just a few minutes to put the weapon on a predictable ballistic path.

Investors can probably live with all this because at least it is predictable.

And he said that the poor outcome of December's climate summit in Copenhagen was predictable.

On the surface, this might look like a good deal to the customer -- a consistent, predictable cost.

Every time you mention the word "outsourcing" among IT professionals (especially in the U. S. ) there's a predictable knee-jerk reaction.

Predictable as this was, no action was taken until the last few games of the season.

developerWorks: Now the next one seems to follow suit, not predictable.

The outcome of these experiments is not always entirely predictable.

The company has been on a reliable, predictable cycle with POWER* releases, delivering the next generation about every three years.

For China, as elsewhere, the general list of most-searched words and phrases, in terms of absolute numbers, is fairly predictable.

Conventional drugs are usually tested in healthy volunteers, as toxicity is usually limited and predictable.

Over the long term, different classes of investments tend to have predictable relationships, or correlations.

And none of this was perfectly predictable, being at the mercy of dozens variables going through the destruction engine.

The predictable Kali Gandaki winds are just a local example of how climate can be affected by mountainous topography.

Just over a year ago, jewelry design business D'Annunzio Group International was chugging along at a steady and predictable pace.

And it met with a predictable aftermath: Ridicule in the British press and a bitter explosion from England's star striker Wayne Rooney.

The opening topic was somewhat predictable: what was the reasoning behind the switch to 3. 0 for the next kernel release?

Use of a personal workstation tends to be much less predictable than use of a server.

Humans can be very predictable; they like to be somewhere familiar, somewhere safe.

It is for this reason that so many readers like to bury their heads in an old-fashioned detective story with a safe and predictable ending.

He thought he ought to return to Washington to discuss our policy in the face of various predictable contingencies.

So in the small silences of our predictable, boring day, I choose him and I choose love, all over again.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world.

If I didn't do any of this, it would be 'aha, Naomi Klein is predictable'.

It comes about in a linear and straightforward way, the predictable result of the planned interventions of change managers.

Now what Stravinsky did in the Rite of Spring was not to take away the underpinning, but to remove any sense of predictable repetition.

Such a predictable financial environment of a new procurement to you need to consider more factors.

You can visualize it revolving around the sun in a predictable orbital pattern.

By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity, he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.

But residents hope that the sea (with the moon's help) may still offer something profitable and a bit more predictable.

You may be accustomed to having a sense of security based on the stability of predictable interactions with people close to you.

So good of you to be so predictable my dear.

It would also become less stressful and more predictable given that the business needs would no longer come 'from out of the blue'.

Mandibular widening by means of intraoral distraction osteogenesis is an easy, predictable and controlled method that creates new bone.

This is all sensational news, for without these planets' assistance, life can be dull and predictable at best.

It was an opportunity to do breakthrough work at the right time in what's become a predictable graphic landscape.

But beneath the surface, things have been less simple, less predictable and less easy for Mr Bashir.

If you're boring, predictable, and uninteresting, then you're never going to have women calling YOU to hang out.

The fixed home equity loan rate makes payments very predictable and easy to budget.

The hardened or overlaid surfaces resist damage from the most severe surface during operation of the valve for years of predictable service.

Methods you call shouldn't depend on the mutable state of any object and should return fully reproducible and predictable results.

Depressing and predictable. But Maya, in the writing workshop she had signed up for, actually got a lot of compliments on the ending.

This allows us to test a non deterministic piece of software as though it were entirely predictable.

But the returns can be handsome and, with a broad enough portfolio, fairly predictable.

But our exporters continue to be frustrated with practices that make China one of the world's least transparent and predictable markets.

The effort is justified, though, by the rewards: improved product quality and a more predictable development effort.

Consultancy once meant travel and long hours, compared with a more comfortable and predictable life in-house.

Transparent and predictable policies and a reliable legal system are essential for a stable investment climate.

Attribute Another attribute in the dataset that contains a state that highly favors one state of the predictable attribute.

For eligible students, Cornell tries to provide a predictable aid package throughout the years of college.

But the results of the war on inflation are not always predictable.

Ageing, at least in the short term, is fairly predictable, so markets may have already discounted its impact on asset prices.

As dads and moms know firsthand -- and most employers accept with some reluctance -- kids' needs are not always predictable in advance.

With luck these kinds of innovations can help the poor use their own savings to make life just a little more predictable.

To some extent, China's embrace of the car has been a predictable result of growing urban affluence.

Care should be taken to not create overlapping mappings, as the results would not be predictable.

As I said, this was totally predictable.

This regularity, in turn, is the result of stable internal constraints that link system variables in a predictable way.

Save for the predictable and the unexpected - We're all going to face retirement someday, and the best time to save for it is now.

Save for the predictable and the unexpected - We're all going to face retirement someday, and the best time to save for it is now.

Able to satisfy immediate, predictable needs, using predominantly formulaic language.

Agile development teams attempt to use just enough process in just enough places to enable the predictable delivery of quality software.

He meant, of course, that it is all so predictable.

As you can see, F4 (if it exists) is constant, and hence trivially predictable.

The threshold for action is highest in the global arena, where the collateral effects are the least predictable.

One of the least predictable steps in the order-processing is sending the confirmation e-mail.

Here was an error that wasn't an error, but rather a predictable side effect of balancing known risks with imperfect information.

Drag a predictable column from the Mining Model table to the Source column at the bottom of the tab.

The direction and its eventual reversal are predictable; the magnitude and duration of the various phases is not.

It's our job to make sure that the game isn't just a predictable rush for colonies.

Do you think the world still changes without such big events, though not so rapidly, but in a way more predictable and better-prepared?

A rubber plug used to separate the cement slurry from other fluids, reducing contamination and maintaining predictable slurry performance.

As the balls migrate through the mechanism of the clock, they change their relative ordering in a predictable way.

As with aid, international reactions to Myanmar's election are likely to be as predictable as the vote itself.

During my second year of teaching, I became engaged to my high school girlfriend and was positioned to live a quiet, predictable life.

As grains build up, the pile grows in a predictable way until, suddenly and without warning, it hits a critical point and collapses.

The guidelines, which were laid down in 1986, were supposed to make punishment more predictable.

History, and geology, tell you that the Earth has periodically experienced a crustal shift, with predictable and survivable devastation.

English weather is even more predictable than I had previously thought.

The reaction of the medical establishment is predictable and, I believe, largely legitimate.

Online shopping has become extremely routine and predictable, which is one of it's great appeals to the consumer.

The probability of each case of the predictable attribute for the node.

Build tools like Node-Jake allow you to automate build and packaging so they happen in a predictable way.

Scientific progress has never proceeded on an even, predictable basis, even though for part of the 20th century it seemed that it might.

You will find that monitoring and tuning systems is quite dynamic and not always predictable.

But the outcome of any confrontation is also predictable: namely, that the Kurds and Shia would prevail.

To sum up, this product has excellent quality, reasonable price, distinctive features and a predictable large circulation.

"It's been a thoroughly predictable train wreck, " Bishop said.

Many data files have predictable enough formats to be read using them, as well.

Simple, perhaps, but it has aroused predictable----and often fatal---opposition from the educational establishment.

As the interlanguage develops, error stabilization is an unavoidable but predictable phenomenon.

Some control procedures appear to have been predictable, being timed to take place shortly before the settlement date of futures contracts.

With the Soviet Union everything was more or less clear and predictable.

The next step is to give people a sense that the financial system is stable and predictable.

This backlash was predictable; it is also profoundly irresponsible as I'll explain in a minute.

'For WTO members, it's insurance on the other side that the Russian trade regime is now stable, predictable and transparent. '

You can use logistic regression to describe which input columns are important in determining the state of the predictable column.

But the reconfiguration of brain-work will also make life far less cosy and predictable for the next generation of graduates.

The consequence is predictable: Several of the worst wastes in software development have to do with deployment.

The development process for solutions is usually transactional and the outcome relatively predictable.

The predictable outcome was condemnation by the United Nations Security Council, plus sanctions on arms exports that are biting.

Results whether the fetus is healthy or not, it is as predictable as possible to adopt the reasonable parturition in time.

And Chapter 8 sums up the hurdles that confront the American economy in a fast-changing and less-predictable world.

One that occurs in a predictable frequency within a piece of glass in a constant pattern or location.

Chaos, in the mathematical sense, is not unpredictability: chaotic systems can behave in a predictable and reproducible way.

If there is a predictable off-peak period, we recommend that you schedule full database backups for that period.

So, if performance is important to you, and search keywords are predictable, consider looking into the DigestSearch method.

But each of these, too, becomes anything but predictable in a postmodern world.

The concentration of cases, if the state of the predictable attribute is specified in the Background control.

That it was predictable does not make it any the less damaging.

The Mining Accuracy Chart tab cannot be used with time series models or with models that have continuous predictable attributes.

The company relies on a widespread assumption that people's mental and physical attributes are predictable from their genes.

"In the last few years Russia has been the least robust and least predictable but it is resource rich, " says Mr Tucker.

once the class teachers have got into a routine and we have worked out strategies, literacy hour is a relatively predictable routine.

In the most general sense, an algorithm is a set of detailed instructions which results in a predictable end result.

Tidal streams are seen as a plentiful and predictable supply of clean energy, as the UK tries to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

As we all have learned recently, the market is not always predictable.

The styling of these elements is now more predictable.

Furthermore, some economic variables are inherently unpredictable; if they were predictable this would violate economic theory itself.

It may feel like just when you've gotten into a predictable groove with your little one, it's time to change it again.

Significant patterns include design by contract, well-defined interfaces, composability, predictable behavior, and component testing.

Officials are reluctant to be so predictable this time.

If you think about it, the entire outcome was predictable.

Nature is benign: Earth is predictable and robust, able to withstand or bounce back from any damage.

Analysts and Chinese state media also warned against expectations of a rapid or predictable rise for the yuan.

Ultimately, whereas evolution can be whimsical (think: vampire bats), its general tendencies are predictable.

It found that US governance had become "less stable, less effective and less predictable" when it downgraded the US from triple-A in August.

If you want to achieve standardized, predictable processes, concentrate on assessing and managing the volatility of those processes.

Only a few predictable malcontents publicly backed them.

This allows them to run independently of the garbage collector to achieve low-latency, predictable execution.

In the viewer, you can see all the attributes that affect the state of the predictable attribute, Bike Buyer.

The imaging finding of large necrotic area can be predictable in its histopathological grading.

Droglo fights by instinct, but years of training have made you stiff, predictable.

Data mining columns can be one of four types: key, input, predictable, or a combination of input and predictable.

Like many young men Yang had chosen to decorate his home with pictures of beautiful women - so far so predictable.

Comparable and Comparator were designed for situations where the comparison operation is deterministic and predictable.

Rising temperatures combined with less predictable rain patterns are likely to reduce water supplies and augment desertification.

You identify this tree by the name of the predictable attribute.

Some of the local advantages cited by these global entrepreneurs were predictable: cheap labor and low operating costs.

Some economists say locking into slow, predictable increases helped fuel the borrowing boom that led to the financial crisis.

Automated administration is the programmed response to predictable administrative responsibilities or server events.

Only mining models that contain discrete predictable attributes can be compared in a lift chart.

A model typically contains input columns, an identifying column, and a predictable column.

The fact that people are full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

They bring fresh ideas and a passion, rather than the predictable and over-priced meals too common among many high street chains.

They will not. These changes are simply not rigorous enough to assure predictable reversal.

Loop, the order in which the fields of the object are assigned to the loop counter variable are not necessarily predictable or controllable.

Tab displays the dependencies between the input attributes and the predictable attributes in a model.

It is a predictable move at a time when voters are so anxious about low wages and holding on to their jobs.

Spikes in workload demands for the retail industry are usually predictable (like Christmas buying crunch season).

The result was a draw in a predictable and mostly dawdling debate, but that undoubtedly suits Mr Obama much better.

"We do see predictable behavior, " says Birditt. "That's what's exciting about this study. "

We must be able to ensure a predictable outcome to effectively test our software.

However, the names are not necessarily predictable and should be considered an implementation detail.

The predictable indicative of the strong convective cloud type in tail of baroclinic disturbance clouds is the best.

Over years of study, Paco Underhill has discovered that people act in predictable ways when they are shopping.

Like veteran stock-market traders, people respond in predictable, if unconscious, ways to the valuations of the social marketplace.

The growing complexity of the Russian economy has generated the need for predictable legal procedures, as already foreshadowed by Medvedev.

They are also subject to yearly review and budget allocations, making them less predictable in the long run.

Participants were least predictable during the weekends and when they were on the move, traveling to and from work, or on their lunch break.

Learning curve theory states that as the quantity of items produced doubles, costs decrease at a predictable rate.

During the teen years a parrot might develop both predictable and unpredictable biting behavior, especially in the perceived territory.

In reality people show a number of predictable biases when estimating other people's behaviour and its causes.

Donors should accelerate funding disbursements to countries, increase their commitments, and pledge long-term, predictable funding.

Although the future is not predictable, "government can't just sit back and wait for it to happen" , he says.

Much of the carbon now in the air will find its way into the ocean with predictable results.

The sun's activity usually ebbs and flows on a fairly predictable cycle.

BIM is an integrated process that vastly improves project understanding and allows for predictable outcomes.

Although the experiment was of simple design and predictable results, I found the processes incredibly exciting.

Also predictable are the brightest orbs that popular the nighttime sky, although those visible at any one time keep changing.

It cleans the slate with a set of predictable, baseline styles.

Car makers don't laugh at the predictable monotony of the modern wheel. They innovate around structure, design, and performance.

The positive thinking and family support could be significantly predictable to the academic achievements.

To this end, the structure of a URI should be straightforward, predictable, and easily understood.

The social demand for agricultural machinery products is forecast agricultural machinery products market predictable basis.

Produce more predictable results because everyone understands the big picture, including their roles, tasks and priorities.

A set of known and predictable data used to train a data mining model.

The Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures says import licensing should be simple, transparent and predictable.

Such symptoms are usually predictable and occur regularly during the two weeks prior to menses.

The same cautious, predictable approach to casting extends to the film's tone as well.

Like all influenza viruses, it is mutating capriciously and, thus, is not a static and predictable public health threat but an evolving one.

The Attribute Profiles tab describes how different states of the input attributes affect the outcome of the predictable attribute.

Shareholders are being told to be patient. Predictable, for once, but hardly reassuring.

Epidemics of measles are predictable, if the population coverage with the two-dose regimen is not high enough.

Classification algorithms and clustering algorithms that contain predictable nested tables.

So the behavior of the center of mass is extremely predictable, whereas the behavior of the squash racquet is not.

In the temperate zone in spring, temperatures fluctuate greatly from day to day, but day length increases steadily by a predictable amount.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - B. Tracy.

To ensure predictable behavior, all transactions must possess the basic ACID properties (atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable).

Despite the global financial crisis, funding absolutely must remain predictable, sustainable, and substantial.

For the only predictable thing about the Kim regime is its unpredictability.

The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability.

They also discovered "scissors, " called restriction enzymes for cutting the DNA into predictable, reproducible patterns.

Predictable Performance: The ability to provide desired responsiveness in a timely manner.

Even as the predictable centre of the distribution appears less risky, the unobserved tail risk has grown.

While Microsoft wants a share of the search and ads business, and another in cloud computing, Google's plans are not so predictable.

But tidal streams are far more predictable than wind, which means utilities using tidal don't have to worry about unexpected still days.

The rocks here are igneous and do not fracture along predictable lines.

The result of searching a candidate test object is predictable, thus robust.

Another insisted that when government gets involved in a company, "the disaster that follows is predictable. "

Quantitatively managed: The process is controlled and measured by statistical data, and outcomes are therefore quantitatively predictable.

Experts say a sophisticated financial services industry requires a much more transparent, predictable and fair legal system.

Due to the lack of predictable congestion, the traditional drop tail algorithm could not prevent the congestion collapse.

Flights from Nice at the end of the summer holidays are always predictable.

With the advantage of hindsight, many experts and analysts view the events that started in Tunisia and Egypt as predictable.

Since the time and money needed for a deposition can be relatively predictable, says Ms Hackett, the client can decide how many are needed.

The only proviso is that the bytecode modifications should be deterministic and predictable.

But, apart from Britain's dramatic exit, last week's European summit was entirely predictable in its inconclusiveness.

Commercial notebooks' contrast ratio is typically measured indoors under optimal and predictable conditions, Hill says.

First, government establishes an overall climate, with competitive tax rates and predictable regulations and fiscal balance.

Throw exceptions only to handle truly extraordinary conditions , not to handle predictable events or flow control .

In some ways, though, it does not matter whether humanity's evolution was entirely random or was predictable in its general form.

The rest of your life is fairly predictable; not many surprises.

As a sanity check, the researchers looked at the public mood on some easily-predictable days, like Election Day 2008 and Thanksgiving.

vertical and horizontal individualism had significant predictable effects on affective balance.

It uses plain Unicode text rather than binary encoding, and all the structures are declared with predictable-looking tags.

The signs of restlessness among young Chinese make for a less predictable political future.

Might male-male copulation in species as diverse as flour beetles and dolphins have similar, even predictable, evolutionary consequences?

To test a predictable stimulus, a third bar would appear in a position timed to fit in with the illusion of smooth movement.