Sentence examples for or predictably from inspiring English sources

"Yet no one can guarantee that future resolutions of systemically important firms will proceed smoothly or predictably".

You can't make plans when you have no freedom of control, movement or anything … In that situation, you can't talk sensibly or predictably about anything... like that".

He said Israel was lifting the curfew for three or four hours at a stretch -- not long or predictably enough for businesses to function.

What gives us "hinterland" is not gap year travel but the sense of life where not everything runs smoothly or predictably.

Making matters worse, ambiguities in the draft law would have to be sorted out in a judicial system that does not always operate fairly or predictably.

It recommends using hearing protection whenever loud noises are unavoidable, at an airport job, for example, or predictably, at a rock concert.

But calling something "speculative fiction" rather than "science fiction" serves another purpose: it avoids giving a novel (or movie) a label frequently associated with genre fiction -- that is, with lower-quality narratives that more-or-less predictably obey a set of associated conventions.

The play ends more or less happily and more or less predictably, with all the characters getting their just desserts.

Any one of the pastas and pizzas we tried was a better choice than the gnocchi, which were dense and heavy with pesto; or the predictably cheesy Italian-American chicken Parmesan; or the underdressed garden salad offered as an entree.

This method controls for differences in characteristics between language regions of Canada that remained constant or changed predictably over time, such as culture or patterns of general medical practice.

Similarly, the show never fell for easy moralizing, or a predictably liberal political agenda.