Sentence examples for Act predictably from inspiring English sources

For the final act, predictably, the set breaks into four parts, stranding the characters on jagged islands of masonry.

Mr Foote said that gangsters  tended to lead "chaotic lifestyles" and did not act predictably, which meant police had to be ready to react spontaneously.

Definitions of trust typically touch on the expectation or belief that other people will act predictably and not be entirely in their own interests [ 23].

In his presidential campaign, he sometimes describes leadership using the model of a chief executive in business, and that is what his colleagues remember him as: a leader who set an agenda, inspired those around him, acted predictably and was comfortable delegating authority.

When the team issued a report, individual departments acted predictably.

"It's more important that a robot acts predictably to the environment and social norms rather than correctly," he says.

However, the banks generally acted predictably to motivations beyond their control, such as regulations requiring them to extend subprime credit and low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve Bank that were designed to encourage lending, and that ultimately demanded riskier, high-yield financial products.

His attempts to enforce the Navigation Acts predictably turned merchants and traders against him.

That still didn't justify Russia's brutal actions to dismember its neighbor, but Putin acted predictably and rationally.

Taking potshots at sacred cows is an act that predictably elicits protest, and a few yowls came this way over last week's column.

Most of these people also transformed into armchair generals as soon as the Iraq war was mooted, an act that predictably became Britain's biggest foreign policy disaster of the last 30 years.