Sentences with phrase «not in a predictable way»

Control your index so that additions and deletions are done at your leisure, and not in any predictable way.

Not exact matches

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

The Bank of Canada will continue to focus on what it does best: supporting the economic and financial well - being of Canada by achieving low, stable and predictable inflation; by keeping core financial market infrastructure safe; and by giving sound advice on financial sector policies so that vulnerabilities do not get in the way of sustainable, productive growth for all Canadians.

But Joseph's righteousness consisted in his being inclined to interpret that law in the most gentle way possible: his seeking to obey it by «putting her away quietly» was not an automatic or predictable response.

We can say that drink makes a man act like a different person — «X just isn't himself when he drinks» — but this transformation is regular and predictable; that is, alcohol affects everyone in approximately the same way, so we could extrapolate from a drunken man what his sober self is like.

Furthermore, NGO - sponsored blog tours often produce posts that, as Karimentioned in a comment last week, can be painfully predictable — you know, «the way that the bloggers are overwhelmed and then uplifted and then come home and, you know, can't go to Wal - Mart without crying,» that sort of thing.

On the one hand, reason is not alien to the nature of the universe, which responds in more or less precise and predictable ways to reason's probes.

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.

You can scream and shout as much as you want, in support of our club but that won't make any difference to Wenger's stubborn and predictable way's!?

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.

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.

Since May's pioneering work in the 1970s, we have known that markets don't behave in a predictable way.

It tried twice more, flaring but ultimately fading in such a nice, predictable way that people didn't pay it much heed.

«There will be randomness in the software so your robot will not always behave in the same way and it will not be predictable unless you want it to be,» says David Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots.

The signals are transmitted at a constant strength, and should fall off in a predictable way with distance — when it isn't raining.

«Even outside these specific findings with cancer, what we're saying is that flavonoids are active and not always in good or even predictable ways,» says Steven K. Nordeen, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and professor emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the CU School of Medicine.

«Crowds seem to behave in predictable ways, but the environment is not always built to accommodate people's behavior.»

A chronic wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly fashion or in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds do.

«It is not a template therapy method where each patient and each disorder is treated in a predictable and specific way.

The seventh way to find love is also to think in a different way than you used before, thinks outside the box, do not make yourself predictable!

And the news — good or bad, depending on one's viewpoint — is that if you don't like this one, his next action vehicle, «Skyscraper,» will open in July — a schedule that's become predictable in more ways than one.

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

There are plenty of plot - related issues, not the least of which is that the film's «science» is wrongheaded in many ways, but it's hard not to be impressed by a movie that pushes forward relentlessly without being predictable.

I'm not referring to the predictable meltdown of sticking Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton in the middle of the Ozarks, but rather the way in which our own prejudices about the extremes of class are manipulated with calculated cruelty.

The trouble is, Polly is the exact opposite of Reuben, always taking risks and not wanting to become pat and predictable in any way, which makes Reuben very uneasy, as he tries to go along with her plans, even if they involve putting himself in situations he'd rather not be in.

The story plays out in some predictable ways and others not so predicatable.

I spent somewhere between six and seven hours working my way through the game's story mode, slogging through chaotic battles, fighting predictable bosses (wait until they're vulnerable, hit, repeat) and fretting over puzzles that couldn't be solved until I came back through with different characters in Free Play mode.

The narrative trips itself up somewhat with a messy third act that falls into predictable realms of police corruption and overly convoluted, poorly explained schemes to benefit the hierarchy while threatening the lives of our main characters (for some reason) but the lack of coherency can't get in the way of Creevy's skill for adrenaline - fueled action filmmaking and that is where Punch really delivers.

But there are enough good ideas and sequences rolled out in a way that isn't predictable or hackneyed.

Movies tend to be about those moments, but writer / director Jessica M. Thompson's reflective The Light of the Moon puts the emphasis on the everything, and how one catastrophic event taints everything that comes afterwards, in ways you can not expect, and ways that are tragically predictable.

Where the picture loses its way is in a conclusion (not unlike The Machinist's) that gathers with the predictable intensity of a rape - revenge exploiter.

He's on a suicide mission, we know, not because the film is completely predictable in every single way (it is), but because Pearce plays out that ambiguity and sadness beautifully.

Stars are good, story is horrendous — played out, predictable, way too cheesy and not subtle in the slightest.

(Which, by the way, is part of Chris Hemsworth «s demise in the movie and also kind of sadly hilarious and predictable in a way that you kind of can't wait for it to happen.)

... Leo and Paige do end up back together, but not in the predictable «her memories all come rushing back» sort of way.

Instead, when it comes to charter schools, the «accountability» is «flexible» and consequences do not come their way in a regular or predictable fashion.

Inconvenient student voice happens when students express themselves in ways that aren't predictable.

The fundamental problem is that crank and wheel horsepower aren't fundamentally related to actual power or to one another in predictable ways.

But that also changes the power dynamic in the ecosystem in less than predictable ways, something that the big dogs in the system won't like.

The plots all twine together in just the right way, making it cozy but not predictable.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

A lot of people do not know that you can actually use an HTML file as a book source in Calibre, but as I pointed out, not only is it possible, it is, in fact, the most reliable way to create a predictable output.

A typical eBook isn't quite reflowable in the same way that a scrollable webpage displays (although the Look Inside feature displays that way), but it also doesn't have a predictable fixed layout like a print book.

Other predictable consequences of Amazon's dominance not only in the ebook sphere but beyond could create problems for the company if it does not make forward - looking changes in the way it does business.

But that's okay — because while dividends are not necessarily sexy, they are a foolproof way to reel in consistent, predictable returns in the market.

Historically, stock prices have been the most volatile of all the different types of investments, meaning their prices can move up and down quickly, frequently and not always in a predictable way.

If the situation you're in means that it makes sense to walk away from the mortgage, that's not illegal or even immoral: It's the predictable outcome of the way these loans were written.

Stocks within particular sectors will tend to react in predictable ways to economic conditions, so it's important to make sure your investments don't get too concentrated in specific sectors, unless you're doing it intentionally as part of your investment plan.

Stick with a Routine Shelters aren't normal or natural places for animals to be, but a predictable routine can go a long way toward making temporary residents feel more comfortable in your facility.

A female pet exposed to a hormone crème in this way can easily manifest signs of heat but will not show a hormone cycle in any predictable way.