Sentence examples for capricious changes from inspiring English sources

EVEN in economics, the guardians of orthodoxy are not given to capricious changes of mind.

In a realm where capricious changes of style and novelty haircuts are common, this sober look has proved unusually durable.

Historians have struggled to find a rational explanation for the capricious changes of policy implemented by Henry in the final years of his reign.

But she brings a terrific impatient energy to Cleopatra's capricious changes of mood and a wry spontaneity of spirit to the compulsive histrionics that ensures the performance steers well clear of the terminally self-knowing raddled drag queen act.

Overall, therefore, variability in the basis of men's sexual-perception judgments may be associated with risk for coercive or aggressive behavior, perhaps secondary to misperception of sexual-consent cues or to frustration in response to a woman's seemingly capricious change in her level of sexual interest (Abbey et al., 2011; Farris et al., 2008b).

It wasn't until Ms. Lyde's third child, a daughter, turned 3 that "the system came into my life," she says, nodding with respect and perhaps some fear for the social services bureaucracy, with all its rules and whims and capricious power to change her family's life for worse and then for better.

As a result, it leads to a non-uniform and capricious rate of change of the state variable.

So a pan-African investor faces a tangle of different regulatory systems, most of them cumbersome, capricious and subject to frequent change.Consider what it takes to incorporate a new business in Africa.

Some thrive initially in this capricious market, and then we hear they've changed hands, changed formats or closed altogether.

The son's regime, it turns out, is no less capricious than his father's was.The changes beneath him, however, seem likely to continue.

Is it possible that our always wayward weather has changed into something volatile and capricious – menacing, even?