When I was a child, growing up on a farm in Massachusetts, the radio marked regularities in my life.
With calendar-marking regularity, Handel's oratorio "Messiah" comes to town, as does Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" ballet.
Since November 2006, the commemorations of the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former officer of the Soviet-era K.G.B., have come and gone with metronomic regularity, marked by fading memory and a dawning recognition that one of the most bizarre events in modern criminal history may never be fully explained because the authorities here and in Moscow do not wish it to be.
One can also notice a similar region with ultra-high regularity marked with the dashed circle.
In perimenopause, many different hormonal changes occur and the onset of perimenopause or menopausal transition is marked by the end of menstrual cycle regularity and is associated with decreases in the production of ovarian inhibiting hormones [ 62].
Consider the high occurrence of exceptions in the inflectionally marked past tense forms of English compared to the perfect regularity of the modally marked future tense.
The plenitude of nature and the regularity of the seasons, for example, both attest to the presence of Dao in the world, not as primary substance, and still less a supreme deity, but as pristine order or coherence marked by intelligible patterns of change and principles of operation.
Atomic clocks built at the official U.S. timekeeping laboratory tick with record-breaking regularity, scientists said — marking an advance that may someday allow researchers to perform new tests of the laws of physics and engineers to perfect technologies such as GPS systems.
Corsicans are like that, only worse, driving very fast in the middle of the road, overtaking on blind corners even where there is no guard rail between them and a 500ft drop, displaying a faith in providence or destiny that is impressive if misplaced, as confirmed by the alarming regularity of wayside shrines marking the sites of fatal accidents.
I never would have imagined that I would defend Ofsted, but they don't actually prescribe a marking load, written lesson plans, or the regularity of data entry – it's the perceptions of what they want that are most damaging.
