Sentences with phrase «certain predictability»

There's a certain predictability to smartphone releases and we never really doubted that the Google Pixel would get a 2017 update, but now we have more concrete clarification, thanks to brief interview with Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of hardware at Google.

These tools could facilitate settlements, make the tribunal's work easier, and create a certain predictability that is often lacking in ODR procedures.

There is a certain predictability to the film and the characters.

There's a certain predictability to The Fighter, yet that's part of the appeal of the fight genre.

That's right, the certain predictability of cause and effect also disappears at the subatomic level.

Not exact matches

While, a certain level of day - to - day predictability is probably essential to getting the best work out of your people, when it comes to longer term aims, adaptability is undervalued relative to stubbornly sticking to your vision.

Although there is a certain sense in which «history repeats itself,» events in the historical arena are never recurrent with the same regularity and predictability as are natural occurrences.

Rosenblatt promised that staff would conduct safety patrols of the block «with regularity, and with a certain lack of predictability.»

Unlike most of Sayles» work, the film suffers from a certain level of predictability (an obvious past connection between Bassett and Wright is treated as a big surprise), and the stories arch so gradually that around the half - way mark I started to check my watch before the movie sucked me back in for the extremely satisfying last hour.

However, predictability in the script ultimately keeps this sequel from achieving the overall quality of the original in terms of intelligence, though lovers of bullets, explosions and gore may find certain aspects preferable in this more immediate, visceral approach.

My Boss's Daughter's biggest downfall is its very tired plot, and a certain level of predictability as catastrophic events start to occur, most of them telegraphed well in advance.

One of the main reasons they seem unable to deal with the demands of our society and the way life seem to dictate and direct them in a certain harness could be found in the predictability in which the older generation has managed or ordered their lives, whilst it has become clearer that the «regular» way of planning one's life — go to school, attend church, listen to your elders; get you diploma / degree, find a job, take the career ladder, find a partner, get married and have children, go through the paces and if you are lucky you can retire by the age of 65....

I value each company and invest only in those trading way below their intrinsic value and have certain characteristics, such as low debt, predictability, constant or growing margins, etc..

Inbreeding is a tool used to produce a higher rate of predictability in certain physical and temperamental characteristics of puppies.

You just need to strike and destroy some of their structures in a certain order and thus snatch victory from their grasp in a quick succession of events, with chess - like precision and predictability.

Here I argue that such views should be reconsidered by admitting that uncertainty is an intrinsic property of nature, that causality implies dependence of natural processes in time, thus suggesting predictability, but even the tiniest uncertainty (e.g., in initial conditions) may result in unpredictability after a certain time horizon.

One thing we can be certain of is that forecasters are looking forward to next month, when the models are increasingly getting past the spring predictability barrier and are more reliable.

One thing is certain, alternative fee agreements are here to stay since more and more clients, both large and small, are starting to proactively ask for the cost predictability, certainty, and transparency which they provide.

Systematizing certain services has also created predictability, which helps attorneys communicate expectations to the client (depending on what type of law) and deliver quicker.

It eliminates all predictability as to where companies may be sued, and such uncertainty also strains defendants» budgets, burdens interstate commerce by exerting upward pressure on consumer prices, and erodes core principles of federalism as courts in certain states interfere with the regulatory affairs of other states.

; the expressiveness domain (assessed by four items; e.g., «Observe participant's eye contact both when listening and speaking or playing with examiner»); the conversational skills domain (assessed by two items; e.g., «Observe whether and how frequently the participant offers / asks for excessive detail in conversation»); and the flexibility / range of interests domain (assessed by three items; e.g., «Do you like to have a certain amount of predictability and routine day by day?»).

To me, someone who is reliable is well worth a certain cost of it leads to predictability.