Sentence examples for in a consistent direction from inspiring English sources

The invaluable Mike Konczal tells us the truth about the rating agencies and public-sector debt: not only do they constantly make mistakes, they do so in a consistent direction.

Do the self-reported aggravating activities of people with chronic non-specific low back pain move the spine in a consistent direction?

A 1-2‰ difference between the δ13C values was evident between the two leaves in each biochemical fraction, in a consistent direction (dwarf > tall).

The observational data shows that in these low wind speed conditions, the wind blows in a consistent direction, for significant periods of time, and that truly calm conditions are very infrequent.

The most intuitive explanation for why a majority of lineages in a group would evolve in a consistent direction (i.e., exhibit a driven trend) is that this change is adaptive in other words, that it is the result of directional natural selection operating among individual organisms within populations of various species.

If this process happens to occur in a consistent direction—say, the largest individuals in each generation tend to leave more offspring than smaller individuals then there can be a gradual, generation-by-generation change in the proportion of traits in the population.

Therefore regular testing over a pregnancy is required to demonstrate if reported changes in velocity have a consistent direction over the term of a pregnancy.

Psychosis, HIV, Paralysis and Blood loss anemia were the conditions most often associated with wide variations in kappa across coder characteristics; however these differences in kappa did not show a consistent direction in favor of either high or low volume coders, full-time or part-time coders or hospital site.

If the posterior ORs in Figure  2 indicated a consistent direction of association between imidacloprid and ASD, there would be little concern that inaccurate recall of exposure could be masking a true association.

Health status ranged from 1 (i.e., excellent) to 5 (i.e., poor) and was coded as such in order to maintain a consistent direction with higher numbers representing poorer health.

Differences in kappa that existed across coder characteristics did not show a consistent direction in favor of any particular coder characteristics, see Figure 2.