One of the sound technicians who analyzed the tape for the prosecutor's office wrote in his report that the interval, disrupted by a cough, that precedes the words "lie to us" was consistent with the phrase "Why did you".
But then, in the years since OK Computer propelled them to superstardom, you could say the same about the phrase "consistent album", yet that's precisely what In Rainbows seems to be.
In two years as an intelligence officer, and four-and-a-half years as an analyst at the highest level, I never once heard the phrase "consistent with intelligence".
To keep things simple we have removed the phrase "Consistent with studies of grid cell and place cell remapping".
Metrically, the opening stanza establishes a consistent pattern of phrasing, where two syllables in each line receive prominent accents.
Those patterns, or "pulses," show how a composer favors louder and longer notes at consistent points in a phrase, much as poets resort to patterns of phrasing or painters favor certain brush strokes.
Many of the books start with a theme being introduced which is continually referenced throughout the book — such as the repeated comparisons of the words "nervous" and "anxious" in The Ersatz Elevator, the consistent use of the phrase "where there's smoke, there's fire" in The Slippery Slope and the descriptions of the water cycle in The Grim Grotto.
Following recommendations for checklist composition [ 1], minor editorial changes ensured that terminology and phrasing was consistent across all nine checklist statements, which were purposely ordered to align with the FASTHUG mnemonic [ 31].
Under the guidelines, an employer can exclude applicants with criminal convictions provided it can demonstrate that the exclusion is "job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity" — a phrase that appears in the law itself and is not defined in the guidance.
But rather than an empty slogan, the phrase embodies a consistent developmental and political strategy that seeks to strike a difficult balance — achieving high growth rates through a market economy while relying on one-party political institutions to ensure social justice and peace.
