Sentence examples for predictable means from inspiring English sources

Faulks achieves topicality by relatively predictable means, encompassing the Internet (YourPlace and Parallax stand in for Facebook and Second Life), the corruption of the banking system, fundamentalist fervors, reality television, and literary awards.

The development of long coronary stents has provided a safe and predictable means of treating long coronary lesions, but this carries with it a higher risk of restenosis.

This new law provides yet another arrow in the quiver of IP protections by creating a federal civil cause of action for trade secret theft, including the availability of a uniform, reliable and predictable means of protecting valuable trade secrets anywhere in the country.

Deposition using an evaporating droplet is neither an efficient nor predictable means for achieving the deposition of large genomes.

Alkyl, aryl, hetaryl, vinyl, and alkynyl ytterbium reagents participate in the reaction, greatly extending the utility of cyclobutenone rearrangements by providing a predictable means of introducing this isoprene unit in a regioselective manner.

1,  2a It is readily introduced to a substrate as the electrophilic component in organolithium or Grignard addition reactions, for example, 1 a→ 2. Here, the differential reactivity of the C1 and C2 carbonyl groups in 1 a adds to its value as a synthon by providing a reliable and predictable means of achieving the ubiquitous head to tail connectivity of isoprene units.

So far the predictions here have been a bit, well, predictable, which means they will almost certainly prove wrong.

By that I don't mean it's predictable, I mean that you get buckled into a little two-seater whip and taken all around Toronto on a course that's already been set.

Therefore our list is a bit longer, and we have preferred to classify the effect into two groups, where predictable haemolysis means that AHA can be expected in a G6PD-deficient patient, whereas possible haemolysis means that AHA may or may not take place, depending on dosage, other concomitant drugs, co-morbidity and other factors.

The party is expected to win in a landslide on Wednesday, and though that result may have been predictable, the means for an abrupt halt to the prosecution of Mr. Zuma were not.

The amount of energy – and therefore revenue – that solar panels and wind turbines generate is relatively predictable, which means funders have a sensible idea of what their returns will be".