Over the decades, it grew into a major enterprise and became predictable in its reliance on concertos with big- or medium-name soloists, often more than one in a program.
There is something inscrutable and, perversely, just a little predictable about this work, with its reliance on symbols, on alien customs and wooden clogs, on 'difference'difference
Thus, we see a predictable attempt at self-soothing through amplified reliance on a more competent surrogate force.
They sledge these DJs for their unwillingness to play outside a predictable setlist of blockbuster dance tracks, their reliance on technology such as auto-sync (the "push-button" approach) and cheap-trick DJ moves.
A study commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission concluded earlier this year that although there were pockets of excellence in local news, there was still a heavy reliance on thinly stretched staffs and predictable crime and weather coverage.
But Mr. Fabre undercuts himself in "Prometheus" with his predictable structure (the ending is particularly anticlimactic), his reliance on nudity and sex as shockers, and a consistently clichéd score (solo piano over low humming and rock beats) by Dag Taeldeman.
Stare decisis is "the preferred course because it promotes the evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles, fosters reliance on judicial decisions, and contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process". Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808, 827, 111 S.Ct.
Although markets sometimes move in predictable ways, he says, the patterns change constantly, and reliance on mathematical algorithms can be disastrous.
Its folkloric visions were assembled from an expert but predictable melange of early 20th-century styles, with particular reliance on Debussy and Ravel.
