Sentences with phrase «predictable lines»

Overall, reactions have seemed to follow predictable lines.

Babies follow a quite predictable line of development milestones during their first year.

At least a change from the normal predictable line - up.

I believe we couldn't win this game, because we went to it with the most predictable line up When you know the other side has planned everything to silence Mesut, why not try another program and surprise them I don't know, of course Arsene knows better than me Just want to talk right now

What is the smoothest, most predictable line?

Fabianistas will wonder how to go on to piggy backing trendy nostrums onto working class economic interest and politics will separate along predictable lines; those who approve of torrential immigration versus those who live with it Oddly socialists often appeal to a sense of mutual responsibility, a «we», whilst simultaneously destroying it.

They are paralyzed in prosaic self - description that follows depressingly predictable lines.

Naturally the car pushes into understeer, and takes a safe, predictable line through corners.

Pablo spends most of the game screaming in Spanish, which I.R.I.S. blithely ignores as she spouts platitudes about life on the road and quotes from much, much more entertaining media (predictable lines from «Back to the Future» and «Men in Black» are present and accounted for).

The Climate Commission, the (very handsomely) paid climate propaganda wing of the Gillard government, trots out the drearily predictable line that the recent heatwave in Australia is all due to climate change and that if only we would reduce our emissions, the planet would get back to how it was in the Little Ice Age.

Aside from the chance to catch occasional outburst from a protester or three in the gallery — which, again, follow fairly predictable lines — it's the opportunity to see the newest member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in action.

When the film comes to its inevitable conclusion, the proceedings have unfolded mostly along predictable lines but the story has offered some old - fashioned action and excitement.

They have been playing really good football and winning with it, even with a thin squad and a predictable line up.

They have already taken the predictable line — Brown is scared that he will lose under the current system.

Whether it's over NHS reform, academies, pensions or slashing government waste, no news report would be complete without a trade union general secretary reciting their well - rehearsed and predictable lines, attacking cuts and bankers.

There are some predictable lines: the Tories are still failing on immigration; government is missing its own target; the Bill won't tackle biggest problems; «illegal immigration» is up and deportation numbers down; The Bill does nothing about exploitation in the labour market.

Yes, the story very much follows a predictable line, yet there are enough flaws exhibited and bumps along the way to keep things far more interesting than may be expected.

But if the prominence of Bacon and Freud suggests a predictable line, a surprising roster of artists located within a largely fresh narrative offers a pleasing corrective.

And because the artists are those exemplary practitioners Dennis Oppenheim, Michael Heizer, and Robert Smithson, their exchange seems to conform to now - predictable lines.

The list of chapter authors is a predictable line up of denialists and contrarians picked from the blogosphere, conservative media outlets and the associates of secretly funded conservative think tanks.