Chairman Kwek Leng Beng said: While it remains difficult to predict future events we are pleased by encouraging signs of some stability returning to our major markets.
The risk-of-harm-criterion poses specific challenges, as it is inherently difficult to predict rare events such as suicide or violence.
However, it is difficult to predict this event because breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease encompassing a variety of pathological entities and a wide range of clinical behaviours, even in patient groups that appear to be clinically similar.
Thus, it is very difficult to predict if those events were EPO- or dialysis-related.
The limited information available on the nature of the transplanted cells (Poltavtseva et al, 2003) makes it difficult to predict whether this event is a consequence of inadequate cell characterization or whether it may re-occur in the future, even in the most rigorous and controlled trials.
It is difficult to predict the outcome of a case.
Threadneedle Street identified flows in and out of emerging markets as one area which was difficult to predict in the event of a rise by the US Federal Reserve at its meeting on 15 and 16 December.
