Sentences with phrase «less predictable»

But far less predictable has been the use of big corporate law firms in this space: Clifford Chance and Ashurst, together with transatlantic firms like Eversheds Sutherland and Norton Rose Fulbright, US firms such as Winston & Strawn and WilmerHale and commercial dispute resolution specialists like Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

But whether litigants are better off with a less predictable system which is more interested in throughput than the result is less clear.

There may of course be instances in which an originalist interpretation proves less predictable or democratic, or is otherwise not legally sound, such as where a new interpretation has come to be relied upon and where returning to the original meaning would prove wholly impracticable.

He asserts that when courts set out vague, multi-pronged tests, the opinion might be more literary or imaginative, but the tests, when applied, lead to less predictable results.

For the Disunited Kingdom, there is however one clear immediate lesson: that polities should be careful how they manage democratic processes, and in particular resort to ill thought - out and simplistic referenda questions, and also should reflect on the risks and folly in maintaining a much - lauded unwritten constitution, which provides no answers to serious and less predictable questions.

Cash flow is like a roller coaster, but less predictable and less safe.

All around the world, winters are changing and ski seasons are getting shorter and less predictable.

By 2050 there will be more than nine billion people to feed, in a hotter and less predictable world; these products and ideas can help.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

And for Italian fishermen, the problem is especially difficult in summer as vacationers make the market less predictable.

(The short version, of course, is: centuries of melting ice and rising seas, hotter heat waves and heavier downpours, less predictable storm patterns, disrupted ecosystems and water supplies.)

A warmer Arctic makes it less predictable.

Apart from the first type of uncertainty, there is sigmoid uncertainty: the TCR will be different by region and by timespan and so will have slower and faster rates of change associated with it, sometimes stringing together as massive spikes, and always less predictable than we would desire.

These include water tables falling as a result of overpumping for irrigation, the loss of fertile topsoil due to overplowing, and weather patterns becoming less predictable as the planet warms.

A warmer Arctic makes the jet stream's path less predictable.

We were wondering how true is was that climate conditions in Bangladesh were getting worse, and less predictable.

Non-linear behaviours are much less predictable and several factors increase the non-linearity of the climate system as a whole, thereby decreasing the predictability of climate systems in general.

In issues where there is something worthy of discussion (nuclear power, GMOs, fracking) you will find exactly the same pattern - two groups of more or less predictable witnesses lined up.

The EU's carbon markets could become more unstable too, its analysts argued, if votes in the European Parliament's key environment committee become less predictable and more frequently subject to challenge.

Thus, glaciers in the steep Himalayas are not only affected by temperature and precipitation, but also by debris coverage, and have no uniform and less predictable response, explained the authors.

Add climate change into the equation and these changes are likely to be even more extreme and less predictable.

It is certain that competition for resources will become more severe as the availability of resources (e.g., soil and water) becomes more variable and less predictable as the climate continues to change (25).

One of the consequences of these contrasting effects is that the future dynamics of forests will become much less predictable.

Embedded resources pose some unique operational challenges to the IESO in that the magnitude and timing of their energy output is less visible and less predictable than that of conventional generation.

That's more than twice the amount of warming so far, which is already leading to more powerful storms, worse heat waves, and less predictable monsoons and cold snaps.

And with our weather patterns becoming stronger and less predictable, the spring showers of the past are turning into extreme storms, leading to sudden downpours, rushing waters, and flooded roads.

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

The other elements of the perfect storm somewhat less predictable but evidently inevitable if you wait long enough would be a solar grand minimum and one or more VEI 5 + volcanoes.

And, with less predictable rains, it's harder to stop these fires once they begin.

One thing is for sure though, and that's climate is less predictable than some dick overtaking when unsafe to do so.

Latin America and the Caribbean» dramatically confirms that weather patterns are becoming less predictable and more extreme.

Humans are very fast at refining and adapting technology for practical uses, but coming up with game - changing advances happens more slowly and is less predictable whether it will happen at all.

«Eudyptes penguins, ostensibly anchored to a reproductive strategy maladapted to a marine environment where food availability is less predictable, will continue to be highly threatened by climate change,» says Morrison.

If so, the quality of the installation might be less predictable.

But the fact that oil and gas production is less predictable can cancel that advantage.

This report presents new data on how increasingly erratic rainfall impacts farms, firms and families, as climate change is making rainfall more erratic and less predictable..

These are less predictable farther eastward, but are marked and frequent on the south coast between Cape Agulhas and Port Elizabeth.

It has Hurst effects — that means that the system is even less predictable — according to Demetris Koutsoyiannis — http://www.itia.ntua.gr/dk/ — than randomness that people imagine I write about.

On the one hand, wind energy can be harvested both day and night, while on the other hand, it's less predictable and less reliable than solar energy.

Despite a warming world, there's little chance of weather becoming unpredictable — or at least less predictable than it already is.

There is an even larger number of less predictable effects.

The graph for wind energy output, however, is far less predictable.

We were in a Nuclear War epiphany and now there seems to be an environmental epiphany that is more subtle with less predictable outcome.

The economics are much less predictable than even climate.

To me, this would contradict the idea of «more extreme, less predictable» climatic events.

Even a duck at half the size is a pretty frightening prospect as we in Western Australian Agriculture are dealing with much lower and less predictable rainfall.

The GIS differs from the WAIS, however, because the former is now largely land - based and the latter marine - based, which potentially makes the WAIS more vulnerable to an abrupt and much less predictable onset of retreat.

They found that regional temperatures and precipitation for the next 50 years may be less predictable due to the chaotic nature of the large - scale atmospheric flow.

As weather makes less predictable shifts, glaciers melt and droughts dry up rivers, how will dams be affected?

She has also determined that gray's behavior is less predictable than that of chromatic hues, such as the color blue, which recedes into the picture plane or red that extends out in front of it.