It's always difficult to predict, especially about the future.

Now, a historian tells me it's even more difficult to predict about the past.

The outcome of the debate depended on political and social circumstances and was difficult to predict.

Mr. Schölvinck (Director, Division for Social Policy and Development) replied that natural disasters were difficult to predict and it was therefore difficult to develop mechanisms to prevent them.

As you probably know, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome of an operation is if you try and correct the gait.

Although Barclays is optimistic about the outlook for the U.S. economy by the end of this year, the bank acknowledges that it is more difficult to predict the longer term.

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Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse. Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

So Castro will not attend, Obama will, and the ALBA leaders will probably be divided. The participants will try to ensure that Cuba is invited to the next summit in 2015, but it is difficult to predict what will happen.

And, in fact, this idea can be used not just to predict epidemics of germs, but also to predict epidemics of all sorts of kinds.

In order to predict effectively, we need to use science.

I can't predict what'll happen.

So, what do we need to know in order to predict?

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The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

We can predict the accident and we can predict who, which cars, are in the best position to move out of the way to calculate the safest route for everyone.

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And you can predict the new trajectory.

But I'd like to play for you the sound that we predict.

Science has the power to predict the future in many cases now.

I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena, for the explicit reason to control and predict.

Until we get our hands on those fugitives it will be very difficult to predict the length of the mandate, unless we can foresee now that those individuals still at large may never be arrested, in which case it would be necessary to try them in absentia.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

These things, among maybe other variables, but these things seem to predict it.

Admittedly, it is not an easy task to predict how justice will unfold.

Given current policy and political uncertainties and the multiple equilibria that they entail it is difficult to predict with a high degree of confidence which road eventually will be taken and when. Those who claim otherwise may well fail to appreciate fully the exceptional nature of the current situation.

And we can predict what the sound will be.

They predict the sensory consequences and subtract it off.

And you cannot predict the outcome of human development.

How can you predict the future? That's really hard.

No one could predict the outcome of this cooperation.

Do they have knowledge of the unseen, thus, are able to predict (the future)?

Do they have knowledge of the unseen, thus, are able to predict (the future)?

And we can predict these trends far into the future.

Once in a while, our fears can predict the future.

So we can then predict where management places should be.

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

At the same time, Obama s advocacy of direct diplomacy caused concern during the campaign, with some questioning whether this meant that he would meet a leader such as Kim Jong il without preconditions. While it is difficult to predict how far he might move in this direction, it would be politically difficult for Obama to meet the North Korean leader in such a manner, something that he is likely to learn early in his presidency.

Fundamental breakthroughs very hard to predict how long it's going to take to make a fundamental breakthrough.

Alan Kay is famous for saying the best way to predict the future is to invent it.

This data will correct current models that over predict atmospheric moisture.

And you'll hear people say, well, we can't predict the future.

There's very often very surprising behavior that you didn't predict before.

I predict scientifically 74 percent of you will go for bananas.