But analysts tend to do better when they avoid the kind of evidence-free sweeping generalization that amounts to little more than a just-so story, particularly when it's a just-so story about the future.
It was even more amazing how long we had avoided the screaming evidence of a train wreck in the making.
With lines of questioning that assiduously avoided the forensic evidence, Mr. Feldman tried to create reasonable doubt that Mr. Westerfield had committed the crimes.
"Yet rather than give oral evidence to answer these questions she is relying on the fact that she is out of the UK to avoid the requirement to give evidence to parliament.
Moreover, a new variable-curvature geometry for the lithium channel profile has been calculated using an analytic approach based on the simplified Navier Stokes equations in order to avoid the fluid dynamic instabilities evidenced in the old profile.
"But they knew enough to say that there were long-term risks and that precautionary action was necessary if we were to avoid the greater risk -- of the evidence mounting to the point where draconian action was unavoidable".
That is why it seemed necessary to me to lay out my evidence to avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up all his previous biographers.
Mr Justice Lopez, summing up, told the jury that Stead - unable to substantiate his claims that London was a modern Babylon - had manufactured evidence to avoid the ridicule of colleagues.
Mistakes, clearly, were made, most glaringly the failure to secure, photograph and scour the McCanns' apartment and the surrounding area as a potential crime scene and avoid the possibility that potentially crucial evidence had been lost or contaminated.
