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 potential effects of ISO 14001 on exports from developing countries are difficult to predict.

2 The effects of natural disasters are difficult to predict or prevent through remedial measures.

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

If this collapses, the region will be drawn into struggles whose consequences are 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.

Moreover, in view of the brief duration of the session, it was difficult to predict very far in advance when it would be necessary to cancel meetings.

Difficulties of developing countries in formulating national policies on EMS standards may be significant, while the associated costs and benefits of ISO 14001 are difficult to predict.

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Moreover, as we recognize the realities of contemporary life, we understand that the world order continues to be quite fluid, and it is indeed difficult to predict its future shape.

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.

What did I predict?

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.

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

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.

I can't predict what'll happen.

I can predict school scores.

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

developing ways to predict and prevent harm from new nanomaterials

These models can be used to predict the current environment.

How could you predict all this?

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.

However, the possible trade offs it may involve with competition are greater than in the case of static efficiency, and evaluation of them is also more difficult because dynamic efficiency is hard to measure or predict.

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

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.

Nicholas Christakis How social networks predict epidemics

And you can predict the new trajectory.

Judge, then, if prophecies predict the future.

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.

Since a general notification would not be able to take into account that the law and practice of a State might change, it would remain difficult for the private party to predict in which situations the contracting State would invoke immunity.

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.

Mathematical models are employed to calculate propellant usage and predict remaining reserves.

73. It is not possible to predict the workload for 1998 1999.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

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.

1. The scale and scope of tasks undertaken by the United Nations Logistics Base during the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 were difficult to predict in advance, as they were mainly influenced by changing circumstances in peacekeeping operations worldwide.

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.

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.