Sentences with phrase «earlier predictions by»

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He acknowledged the wrongness of those early calls, but stood by his prediction.

Those numbers took many by surprise (the film's $ 60 million opening weekend was well above early predictions of $ 40 million).

Premier Pauline Marois» government, which backed away from an earlier prediction to balance the books by this year, now promises to guide the struggling province out of the red by 2015 - 16.

Freddie Mac's economic team made just such a prediction earlier this month, forecasting that 30 - year mortgage rates would climb to 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

An article by Ross L. Finney offered a dire prediction in early 1924: «Unless we shift our weight Western civilization will enjoy an illusive prosperity and greatness for a time, but will then stagger, stumble and eventually collapse» (January 24, 1924).

Whereas his earlier prediction was that Peter would deny him, Jesus now informed him that he would glorify God by dying the same way he had died (vs. 19).

Somewhat contrary to Miss Stebbing's prediction that Religion in the Making would likely be widely quoted in pulpits and approved by theologians, 1 much of the early reaction was severely critical and negative.

It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing of the first and the later Gospels the story of the empty tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating of the resurrection event, fell out of use.

The rapture has become an accepted part of the Christian vocabulary with the publication of the megaselling «Left Behind» novels and a heavily publicized prediction earlier this year by a Christian radio broadcaster that the rapture would occur in May.

Earlier the same year, Michael Spencer — the Internet Monk — penned «My Prediction: The Coming Evangelical Collapse» that was picked up by the Christian Science Monitor.

Match Predictions: Barcelona's two defeat in the league this season include that historic win by Alaves at Camp Nou earlier in the season and Luis Enrique will be hoping to avoid such result again.

The point to remember here is that the ultimate aim of this model is to get an overall, national - level, estimate of seat numbers and these are based, as noted earlier, on the proviso that an over-prediction in one constituency may be offset by an under - prediction in another constituency.

But Darling's confidence is supported by a prediction from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research earlier this week, which said it expected we would make a tentative return to growth in the three months leading to November.

But contrary to earlier predictions, one can not simply raise the slope by, say, 2 percent while decreasing the water depth by 2 percent and see the same pattern of sediment transport.

If these trends continue, the population of the world may reach 9 billion by 2050 and level off at around 10 billion by the end of the century — 1 or 2 billion fewer than earlier predictions.

A year ago, LIGO confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein a century earlier: that violent cosmic events, like the merger of two black holes, would wrench the fabric of spacetime and emit ripples.

Long - term data from a wind farm at San Gorgonio, California, confirmed his earlier model predictions: surface temperatures behind the wind turbines were higher than in front during the night, but as much as 4 °C lower by day.

These predictions, he says, are essential to manufacturing in global chemical, cosmetic and personal care industries impacted by REACH, a European regulatory guideline that aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances.

Only the United States beats China in the volume of scientific papers published — and predictions show that it could overtake the United States by as early as 2013.

Dr Marcus Neumann, author of the computer program GRACE for crystal structure prediction, which predicted eight out of nine targets correctly in this blind test and eight out of ten targets in the previous two blind tests, said: «Obviously, we are delighted with these results, in particular because unlike in earlier blind tests they have been obtained by a fully automated procedure that can be used as a black box in industrial working environments.»

The Sunday Times and others have been busy telling us that experts are confounded by figures showing that AIDS cases are not as widespread in Britain as earlier predictions had claimed.

Screenplay predictions can be a bit tricky this early on as we saw with this year's Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Moonlight, which won multiple Original Screenplay citations from critics as well as the Writers Guild of America but was deemed Adapted by the Academy deep into the Oscar season.

For schools that have already lost traditional in - house arts programs and have come to rely on the services provided by outside partnering art institutions and organizations, advocates are fearful of their fates as well, with predictions, as reported by the Associated Press in early February, that as many as 10,000 arts organizations could disappear in 2009.

That's why I've included page by page lesson plans, guided practice worksheets, and text specific reader's notebook prompts for the following strategies: - Retelling and Summarizing - Making Inferences - Making Predictions - Identifying the Author's Purpose I also created an Extension Activity for early finishers.

... However, I stand by my earlier prediction — and this is where I find a flaw in Mahaney's analysis: Apple won't stand still and let Amazon have this market all to itself.

Although Andrew Keen has long been involved with Silicon Valley, he has a big problem with the sunny predictions made by early champions of the Internet.

(But since we all like to keep score, if it does happen by early 2014 I'd like to apply futurist Ray Kurzweil's rule and call this prediction «essentially correct.»)

Freddie Mac's economic team made just such a prediction earlier this month, forecasting that 30 - year mortgage rates would climb to 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

Since the early 1980s, C.I.A. officials have hired him to perform more than a thousand predictions; a study by the C.I.A., now declassified, found that Bueno de Mesquita's predictions «hit the bull's - eye» twice as often as its own analysts did.

The NYT article also said that the airlines» new strategies seem to be working, citing Delta's prediction earlier this year that the percentage of paying passengers in its first class seats will increase from a little more than 50 percent in 2015 to 70 percent by 2018.

Attendees to the first day of Lyon GDC found themselves in the midst of an economic theory debate sparked by Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack earlier today, with the outspoken studio boss repeating his prediction of a one console future for the games industry.

Adam Sheffer, a partner at Cheim & Read (whose press release notes that its booth, featuring works by Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, and Lynda Benglis, is «in honor of the women's march and the sea of pink hats»), wrote in an email that «while we're still in the early days of the new administration, any predictions of how potential policies or reforms may impact the art market are too speculative.»

So extrapolations by fitting a function that resembles a sigmoid - shaped trajectory may make more sense, but even that, as shown in the figure, yields a much earlier prediction of an ice - free Arctic than can be expected from the CCSM4 ensemble.

* The fast warming would likely begin early in the next decade — similar to the 2007 prediction by the Hadley Center in Science»

These phases, which last 30 years, giving a 60 - year cycle, must be carefully allowed for: otherwise the error made by many early models would arise: they based their predictions on the warming rate from 1976 - 2001, a period wholly within a warming phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

As these grasses and shrubs dry out in early summer heat, the predictions are for above - normal fire activity by July.

The result: «without rapid and massive action,» we will see an almost 10 degree rise in temperatures by 2100, more than double earlier predictions of a 4 degree rise.

The bad news is that as more is understood about global warming, and as we compare what has happened to what was predicted by the average models (from the actual science, not from popular sensationalized media), the earlier scientific predictions have turned out to be too conservative, not as you say «too alarmist».

The effects of ice melt on ocean circulation were not included in the latest assessment by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meaning Hansen's predictions would occur much earlier and be less gradual than envisioned in the consensus reports of the IPCC.

These new sea ice proxy records are needed (1) to fully prove the scenarios of a succession from an extended ice shelf to polynya / open - water conditions (cf., Fig. 6), (2) to reconstruct in more detail the changes in sea ice cover for early, middle and late LIG intervals characterized by very different external forcings and related internal feedback mechanisms, and (3) to allow a more fundamental proxy data / modeling comparison that results in model improvements and better reproduction of the LIG climatic evolution and prediction of future climatic scenarios20, 21,22,23, 64.

While alarmists predict total loss of ice by 2030 (and earlier predictions have already failed), believers in the power of natural cycles expect Arctic sea ice to rebound by 2030.

Predictions of 0.2 per decade for a specified two decades («the next two decades») can be invalidated by data from 2007 to 2027, but not by anything that hasn't gone beyond early 2012.

Normally I don't think I would care all that much about how many hurricanes but for the predictions made earlier this year by Colorado State University and NOAA.

This too is understandable as Derocher was invested in his earlier predictions that «by the middle of this century, two - thirds of the polar bears will be gone from their current populations»

Earlier this year, for instance, UN Environment Program (UNEP) tried to cover up evidence of an embarrassing prediction it made in 2005: That man - made global warming would lead to some 50 million «climate» refugees by 2010.

But given the nascent nature of China's solar domestic market, this 500 MW program, which comes just a few months after the landmark solar roofs program, send a strong signal that China is serious about developing its domestic solar market, and will undoubtedly stimulate more activity in domestic deployment by enterprises outside of the subsidy program (like what the Solar Roofs prorgam did), and lends further support to my earlier prediction that 2009 will be remembered as the Year of Solar.

As with the Hansen 1988 predictions, this inaccuracy in early line - by - line radiative codes led to some overestimation of climate sensitivity and warming in those earlier GCMs - which, mind you, was not specifically due to errors in the GCMs, as they were using the best values available at the time.

By Barry Brown Canadian researchers studying the ArcticÂ's ancient permafrost have discovered 700,000 - year - old ice wedges buried in the soil that have survived earlier periods of global warming, adding complexity to predictions about the impact of contemporary climate change.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.