Sentence examples for a predictable course from inspiring English sources

The battle's effects followed a predictable course, with little differentiation among its victims' backgrounds.

On the way the film flirts with romance but to its credit avoids a predictable course.

In the closing phase of the process, Paisley, characteristically, did not chart a predictable course.

Clinical pathways are plans of care applied to common processes, with a predictable course and great clinical variability in their management, which constitute an opportunity for improvement.

Subacute thyroiditis is a self-limited inflammatory disorder of the thyroid characterized by neck pain or discomfort, a predictable course of thyroid dysfunction, and disruption of the thyroid follicular cell architecture.

While burnout is cumulative and tends to follow a predictable course, compassion fatigue can be more complex, as it results from intense, extended empathic care for people experiencing pain or suffering.

When she gingerly ventures forth an idea, she first steers it cautiously along a flat, predictable course and then gives it a startling spin.

Anti-NMDAR+ encephalitic patients appear to develop a somewhat predictable course of illness, during which a number of symptoms are frequently observed.

Doctors do best in providing accurate prognoses for patients with advanced cancer, because the disease follows a more predictable course and the medical literature provides a range of survival times for most cancers.

The most disturbing dystopias are those which feel closest at hand; and McDonagh indicates how swiftly society reverts to tooth-and-claw primitivism, though the plot follows a fairly predictable course – it seems inevitable that Rachel's unwanted admirer should keep a graphic, masturbatory journal which she finds and reads.

"This has run a fairly predictable course," he said.