Sentences with phrase «defying predictions»

The August 7 print edition of the Danish Jyllands - Posten, the famous daily that published the «Muhammad caricatures ``, features a full 2 - page article bearing the headline:» The behavior of the sun may trigger a new little ice age» followed by the sub-headline: «Defying all predictions, the globe may be on the road towards a new little ice age with much colder winters.»

Even Computer Models Now Defying Predictions of Doom!

Alex Branczik, head of contemporary art for Sotheby's Europe, said the art market had been defying predictions of a downswing.

On Saturn's giant moon Titan, the seasons should now be turning, but summer in its southern hemisphere is defying predictions by refusing to end.

What Reilly discovered in these in - depth interviews were career paths that defy prediction.

Calacanis said the company has continued to defy predictions about product cycles and margins.

However, economic progress can still come through productivity - enhancing technologies, which historically have defied prediction.

Malaysia's prime minister may have defied predictions of his demise.

So they've defied predictions that were made at the end of last year.

On February 4th, Costa Ricans defied predictions by giving Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the Partido Restauración Nacional (PRN) the most votes.

Instead, David Cameron's Conservative Party defied all predictions to win an outright parliamentary majority, securing 331 out of 650 seats.

Speaking before Mr Khan's victory, Mr Corbyn talked up Labour's performance, saying it had defied predictions by retaining control of councils in the south of England such as Southampton, Hastings, Crawley and Norwich.

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

The 60th Senate district has been something of a wildcard race over the last several election cycles and defies prediction.

A year later he ruthlessly exploited English fears of a Labour - SNP coalition to crush his Lib Dem colleagues and defy all predictions to win a 12 - seat Tory majority.

So researchers were startled to learn in June that the first good measure of a young neutron star's magnetic field defied all predictions.

Water droplets defy predictions, potentially offering insights to everything from fire - retardant fabrics to fuel cells

And she continues to defy predictions, landing an Oscar nomination as well.

[Update:] For now at least, the Variant / SportWagen defied predictions and has not as yet turned up at the show.

So they've defied predictions that were made at the end of last year.

Although mortgage rates have defied all predictions and drifted lower since January, most experts still expect them to rise later in the year.

Still, there are many other veteran sea - ice scientists (this is not false balance) who note that the complexity of this system has consistently defied predictions in either direction (see this year's Sea Ice Outlook forecasts to get the range of forecasts).

-- such a model would quickly depart from the unfolding climate found on Earth because chaotic systems defy prediction.

Which ever is correct, you must conclude that one of the two defies predictions made according to the AGW theory.

I get what you are pointing out, that this snowfall increase defies the predictions of the warmists [or now, in their latest claim that more warming means more snowfall....

So they've defied predictions that were made at the end of last year.

Housing starts have defied predictions of a soft landing, and national housing starts throughout the first seven months of the year have trended around 200,000 annual units (chart 1).

Not exact matches

Rates have actually come down since then, defying earlier predictions.

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It is an ever - unfolding mystery that defies precise prediction.

There will be many cheap predictions of the Liberal Democrats» final demise, but the party has a history of defying exaggerated reports of its death.

It is an election which has not just defied all the predictions of the pollsters and pundits - but which may yet prompt the most fundamental re-casting of British politics for a generation..

The Local Government Chronicle (LGC) has supplied ITV News with its latest projections for local authorities» approach to council tax in the wake of Eric Pickles» funding attack, supporting predictions that a number look set to defy the Government.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Conde Nast's interest in moving to the World Trade Center shows that downtown will defy the doomsday predictions regarding neighborhood real estate, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Friday.

These cyclones — which reside in bizarrely stable and geometric patterns that defy most model - based predictions — remain unexplained.

She was back to doing her advanced yoga moves within months, defying the doctor's predictions.

Wonder Woman was the film that defied all the predictions: a big - budget superhero movie directed by a woman which managed to please not only the feminists and their daughters but also the boys who love DC and Marvel.

Films like that (and others like the 2014 drama Unbroken and the 2013 war film Lone Survivor) defy box office predictions and it would be great to see Hollywood embrace such patriotic and original stories (one hopes that Eastwood's next film Sully — about the pilot who overcame the odds and safely landed a disabled plane in the Hudson River — will fit the bill).

Amid sliding oil prices and a sluggish Canadian economy, the Bank of Canada defied prior predictions and actually lowered the key interest rate today by a quarter - percentage point — from 1 % to 0.75 %.

Rates have actually come down since then, defying earlier predictions.

For the first three months of the year, consumers defied economists» predictions that they would significantly decrease their spending in order to cope.

For the first three months of the year, consumers defied economists» predictions that they would significantly decrease their spending in order to cope.

Meanwhile, Royal College of Art graduate Jonny Briggs has defied Dovey's dire prediction and has sold work to Saatchi, But the days of Hirst and the Young British Artists (YBAs)-- when this would have been a fast track to stardom — have long passed.

For a useful critique of model - starting - points which bear no relation to the real - world, see: D. Koutsoyiannis et al (2008) «On the credibility of climate predictions» in Hydrological Sciences 53 (4) August 2008 671-684, who conclude that the GCM models defy normal assessments of validity and should not be relied upon to predict future climate change.

It can't be both so complex as to defy confident prediction and predictably modest in terms of its response to CO2.

In 2008, the Bush administration released a new proposal for fuel economy standards that were slightly better but still far too low; they were determined through a fatally flawed analysis employing numerous assumptions defying common sense and the law, such as a prediction that gas will cost $ 2.36 per gallon in 2020 and an assumption that technological solutions available now can't be employed by automakers a few years from now.

Here she is in fact being somewhat modest because as you will notice the reality is that trend for the number of typhoons forming has been clearly downward, and thus it defies all the earlier predictions of more storms made by the «climate experts».

Rates have actually come down since then, defying earlier predictions.

Sotheby's International Realty Canada CEO Ross McCredie says, «2013 proved to be a year that defied many analyst predictions.