Perhaps, though, consistency is also part of their problem.
Mr. Obama uses $250,000 as shorthand for the higher-income taxpayers the increases are aimed at — perhaps for consistency's sake, and perhaps because $250,000 is a nice round number.
I have always believed that the encouragement of strong independent institutions beyond the control of the state - institutions which must include the family - coupled with more local decision-making, would be the answer to the new left, but in my case I failed to find the opportunity and perhaps the consistency of message to persuade people of this.
Finally, the short AIMS was also rated favorably for all aspect of validity, but it contains scales that lack internal consistency, perhaps because some subscales consist of only 2 items or because the response format is often yes/no.
Perhaps his remorseless consistency doesn't stir the soul.
Less noticed but more remarkable about Santoro, perhaps, is the consistency that allowed him to finish among the top 65 players at the end of 17 seasons.
"He was struggling, and they thought they could eliminate the pain and perhaps gain some consistency for the season," Coughlin said.
But an immersion in the 22-plus hours of "Prime Suspect" is a reminder that not all, or even most, of what made Tennison an indelible character was on the page; and that through the ups and downs of a show that spread its handful of episodes across 15 years, Helen Mirren gave a performance that was a small miracle of depth, restraint and, perhaps above all, consistency.
Although Kimura's model assumes neutral rates of nucleotide substitutions, we use it as an approximation of the mutation rates of the GAPDH genes for the sake of consistency, perhaps yielding conservative estimates or upper bounds on the ages of pseudogenes.
