Sentences with phrase «in predictable patterns»

Human enemies react in predictable patterns, while monsters can be defeated with a torch — a mechanic lifted from 2010's Alan Wake.

The Cloud City levels have currents of air that toss your birds (as well as any debris you create) around in predictable patterns you can use to cause a lot of destruction.

It is thought that these powerful beings manifest with bright light and loud noise, and those who are unprepared — who have not practiced meditation — flee and cling to the familiar, thereby landing in predictable patterns, leading them to a less optimal rebirth.

The current system, with its heavy focus on student achievement scores, results in predictable patterns linked to poverty rather than the contributions of schools.

Rapid genome evolution can occur in predictable patterns, an international team of scientists has found whilst researching young plant species.

They have really really long orbits around the sun, but like all orbiting bodies, they travel in predictable patterns.

For reasons no one quite understands, cholera epidemics seem to follow the seasons, surging and then receding in predictable patterns.

But are they, like us, wired to think in predictable patterns?

If the lions were that hungry, DeSantis reasoned, they must have also scavenged carcasses, a process that involves heavy bone crunching and wears down the teeth in predictable patterns.

In a study, location and communication data collected from three international mobile phone carriers showed that people move and communicate in predictable patterns, said Wang.

Although every child is different, gross motor skills development typically occurs in a predictable pattern.

They pulse brighter and dimmer in a predictable pattern, which allows astronomers to determine how far they are from us — about 300,000 light years.

Most of us stand in the same spot and / or move around in a predictable pattern every day without even noticing.

Establish a feeding pattern - Feral cats are much easier to trap when they've been trained to eat in a predictable pattern.

They behave in the same way they usually do in their previous 3D appearances, swimming back and forth in a predictable pattern, although this time, they can be captured by Mario, which allows him to swim quicker and breathe underwater.

Do the symptoms unfold in a predictable pattern?

Not exact matches

Relatively privileged Christians in the U.S. must consider the likelihood that the procurement of requisite ova will follow the predictable patterns of women's labor in an exploitative global market.

In a delightful passage in Orthodoxy Chesterton insists that even if life does proceed with a predictable pattern, that does not mean that God is not active as a creatoIn a delightful passage in Orthodoxy Chesterton insists that even if life does proceed with a predictable pattern, that does not mean that God is not active as a creatoin Orthodoxy Chesterton insists that even if life does proceed with a predictable pattern, that does not mean that God is not active as a creator:

A particular interchange, positive or negative, is the product of complicated relating, which in an ongoing relationship follows a predictable pattern.

A contextualist understanding of events linked to the indeterminate world at large invites the romantic adventure; the mechanist hypethesis about the predictable regularity of action poses instead the ironic rejoinder; organicist images of an ultimate integration tend to the comic; and formist perceptions of adherence to structured pattern are more tragic in their orientation.

Crisis books usually follow a predictable pattern: first a searing depiction of the problem at hand, then some broad and sweeping assessments of how great changes in attitude might begin to address the issue, and then some piddling and timid policy proposals that clearly won't begin to meet the challenge.

Events in the natural world followed a strictly causal pattern, along a predictable temporal order, such that every well - defined event or action would lead to similar outcomes.

Originally South - Eastern [sic] Bible Institute - «SEBI» in my day the school has exemplified a predictable development pattern, becoming South - Eastern Bible College (four - year) in 1957 and shifting to a now regionally accredited Southeastern College («of the Assemblies of God») in 1977.

Other people, after all, are finite in their spiritual energy, and despite their capacity to surprise, they tend to fall into routines and predictable patterns.

All the information is ultimately fed to Orion's database in Sioux Falls, allowing the company to generate reports that allows stores to look at predictable traffic patterns.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

The fans haven't forgiven the tackle on Ramsey but the games hardly have any extra edge to them, in fact they follow a pretty predictable pattern.

A new manager would (again, we'd hope) come in and start from a clean unbiased position regarding individual players and determine which players play, where / why / when, without the current stale and predictable pattern we see today.

Every season the same voids occur with his new signings, his tactics and his arrogant continuation with the same attitude and predictable playing style no matter who we face.Stagnation appears to have set in now to the point where he genuinely does not have the answers any longer.Fresh blood with a new thinking pattern is urgently required at Arsenal before we will see the turn - around so desperately needed.

Though every baby is a little different, «normal» crying in the first three months of life follows a fairly predictable pattern:

Most babies grow in a fairly predictable pattern.

Weight gain after birth follows some fairly predictable patterns as indicated in the table below:

Moms want things to be predictable but early breastfeeding is completely unpredictable; it is frequent, time consuming, erratic in pattern and even surprising.

You'll probably notice your little one is beginning to be a bit more predictable in their sleeping patterns, and perhaps sleeping deeper and longer at night.

Babies who like routine and follow predictable patterns — that's most babies — but who don't get rattled if on occasion a morning nap happens on the way to the store rather than in the crib or when a playdate runs 20 minutes into the usual nap time.

When you are in labor your contractions will be predictable, they will follow a pattern and get closer together, and they will begin to increase in intensity.

Normal weight loss in the newborn period follows a predictable pattern.

Every baby book and pediatrician will tell you that in the first year of their lives, babies are constantly morphing their sleeping and eating patterns, and not always in predictable ways.

In other words, the routine doesn't always follow the same predictable pattern of events.

Parents will start to notice a more predictable pattern in their babies sleep.

Most full - term babies will follow a fairly predictable pattern of development, and the standard advice given in regards to introducing solid foods to infants in the first year of life is based on this pattern of development and developmental milestones.

«In addition, their sleep doesn't follow any predictable pattern — they just doze off several times a day.»

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's annual pilgrimage to make New York City's financial case before skeptical state legislators in the Capitol usually follows a predictable pattern: He asks for money; Republican lawmakers scoff.

In contrast to these seemingly random rotational motions, the moons follow a surprisingly predictable pattern as they orbit the binary planet formed by Pluto and Charon.

The pattern is so predictable that Rennich, a 28 - year - old electrical engineer from Acton, Massachusetts, can say, «If you want me to get a migraine with aura at two in the afternoon, I can give you a migraine with aura at two.»

«For these cell - level «rules» to be translated into specific brain proportions, we would also expect to see these rules reflected in predictable growth patterns of the mammalian brain, particularly in species from the same group of mammals,» she said.

The word «song» is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the humpback) in a way that is reminiscent of human singing.

In coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distanceIn coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distancein the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distances.

It prevents seeds from germinating quickly and in a uniform, predictable pattern.

A recent publication from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University shows that the thirty year path from the initiation of research on oligonucleotides as therapeutics to the emergence of effective products followed predictable patterns of innovation, in which novel products are successfully developed only after the underlying basic research reaches a requisite level of maturity.