Sentences with phrase «acting in predictable ways»

You can do this by providing daily routines for your baby and acting in predictable ways.

The idea is that we, as humans, act in predictable ways; a reason why history repeats itself so often.

Family members will consistently act in predictable ways, so you don't have to guess each day.

Pointing to a $ 7.9 billion net loss in 2001 and marginally better figures for 2002, insurers have acted in predictable ways — sharply limiting new policies, increasing premiums, failing to renew policies, tightening underwriting criteria, and instituting new policy exclusions.

Not exact matches

We can say that drink makes a man act like a different person — «X just isn't himself when he drinks» — but this transformation is regular and predictable; that is, alcohol affects everyone in approximately the same way, so we could extrapolate from a drunken man what his sober self is like.

The narrative trips itself up somewhat with a messy third act that falls into predictable realms of police corruption and overly convoluted, poorly explained schemes to benefit the hierarchy while threatening the lives of our main characters (for some reason) but the lack of coherency can't get in the way of Creevy's skill for adrenaline - fueled action filmmaking and that is where Punch really delivers.

Trying to keep the story going in a linear direction creates some predictable moments, particularly with the way the police act and react.

It means that it would be predictable that acting in a certain way would cause injury to the type of person that was harmed.