Sentences with phrase «fairly predictable»

Grace's books are good, but they usually all have the same theme and are fairly predictable.

While a specific credit score doesn't guarantee a certain mortgage rate, credit scores have a fairly predictable overall effect on mortgage rates.

In general, the real estate market is fairly predictable, and you can use that record and assurance to protect your investment better.

Indeed, the reason recent presidents — from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama — have been fairly predictable is because they were so thoroughly immersed in their parties.

In addition, most home components have fairly predictable life cycles.

have developed fairly predictable roles within a bigger family system.

While all of these different stages make divorce seem complex, they all work in fairly predictable ways.

When husbands and wives are unable to navigate their disagreements, they fall into fairly predictable patterns of behavior, as suggested by the four stages of marital conflict.

«Couples often get into a sexual routine and adopt a fairly predictable script,» Needle says.

Resumes are fairly predictable in features and information, but some choices have to be made.

When working for a company serving patients through mail order delivery, you can expect a fairly predictable schedule with regular shifts.

Generally speaking, the work at a clinic is fairly predictable in hours and tasks.

In fact, the US has always been a fairly predictable market when it comes to smartphones, with Apple, Samsung, LG, HTC, and Motorola combining to capture over 90 % of all sales.

As a result, most big firms engage in a traditional style of litigation, which is fairly predictable.

Political pundits follow the polls that political parties are looking at to talk about the wisdom of their various moves — all fairly predictable in the end, if you understand the psychology of the party faithful.

If you do legal work that follows a fairly predictable pattern (for example, residential real estate), you may even want to commit portions of this roadmap discussion to writing, in the form of a client handout — as long as you realize that handouts can never replace personal communication.

Many of these services — or portions of these services — are fairly predictable and lend themselves well to fixed pricing, e.g. Drafting and Filing motions, complaints, petitions, and answers to complaints / motions / petitions; bankruptcy; incorporations; simple wills, trusts, and powers of attorney; and several others.

Often, attorneys use the lyrics of popular music in fairly predictable ways in their writing, sometimes with adverse impact on the persuasiveness of the argument they are advancing.

While there have been many, fancy, high - tech solar - tracking systems invented, it's also true to say that the sun tends to follow a fairly predictable path from one day to the next — so maybe simple, low tech solutions could work too?

(ii) as to the short term fluctuations, these are also fairly predictable as the mostly follow ENSO, and are only minor purtabations about the long term trend (and hence are of no significance in a discussion of climate change, as they cancel out to zero in the longer term).

For many, many decades, demand for electricity followed a fairly predictable daily course, allowing utility grid managers to become experts at predicting and satisfying it.

One thing that is fairly predictable, and sometimes devastating — in Russia this year, tragic — is flooding.

E.g. if the viscosity of the fluid tumbling down the mountain was increased (pouring treacle into the water, say) the result would be fairly predictable.

Some of these fluctuations may be due to natural climate oscillations and may therefore be fairly predictable.

Bottom line, he said, it's preferable to have a fairly predictable, stable planning horizon rather than even cheap gas for the short - term.

It's a great visual effect and also a helpful aid to slow down the onslaught of enemies that come in waves during fairly predictable firefight sequences.

It's also worth noting that these unpredictable events are actually fairly predictable in and of themselves; every player will eventually encounter all the same content only with different Mii names and certain randomised objects.

This really helps to drive forward what is otherwise a fairly predictable storyline.

The game follows a fairly predictable rhythm: enter a new area, take on a few stages, meet a new party member, take on a few more stages, fight a menacing boss, then rinse and repeat.

Okay, rating is 122 / 125 Cubed Stars, great graphics, good gameplay, getting fairly predictable though, and also they took away the headband, THE FIENDS!!

After you learn that the story pretty much dissapears for most of the game and the only plot twist comes at the end, and it's fairly predictable.

Even though this version has far more content than the original, the stories are still fairly predictable, which is more of a by - product of this genre than anything else.

The story is fairly predictable, but it's told well and has a strong cast of characters.

It's a pretty dull affair that see's you hunting a rogue agent, but a fairly predictable couple of plots does not do much for the story and it feels rather loose all round.

Although it seems that a young pup is in a constant state of elimination, his body functions are fairly predictable.

Healthy cats typically have fairly predictable schedules.

In traditional obedience competitions, these tasks are performed one at a time in a fairly predictable manner, and interaction between the handler and their dog other than quick succinct cues is discouraged.

The «black / white» (dark / light) skin color distinction is certainly a visual one; so the fact that dogs can pick up on that while they might leave other racial distinctions aside is fairly predictable.

Many physical and personality traits of certain types or breeds of dogs and cats are fairly predictable.

Dogs and cats lose certain baby teeth at fairly predictable points in their development, just like humans.

Liver disease follows a fairly predictable course.

If you keep track, you will notice that they will settle into a fairly predictable pattern.

The ascendancy of the It dog used to be fairly predictable.

While I don't claim to be able to forecast every move that DIS makes, certain set - ups do create fairly predictable price...

Each stage has fairly predictable spending needs and levels.

Dividends have gentle trends that are fairly predictable.

You may also need to re-examine your attitude to risk / reward as an investor — most people love the idea of an oil stock hedging an airline stock, then get frustrated when one stock always seems to be a loser, while an event - driven investment's fairly predictable risk / reward may suddenly appear rather meagre when the overall market's charging ahead!?

While the amount or Treasuries the Fed holds and their maturities can be well graphed — that is, a fairly predictable reduction process can be plotted — that's not so much the case with mortgages, at least at the moment.

Channeling: Buying and selling certain stocks with fairly predictable periodic highs and lows, which allows one to buy low and sell high over and over again.

The Amazon Kindle has been fairly predictable over the past few years, walking a path from button - laden ebook reader at its 2007 launch, all the way through to the ultra-refined and ultra-simple Paperwhite and Voyage generation.