Sentence examples for rather than predictions from inspiring English sources

To be sure, these are risk factors rather than predictions, but that is the point.

Tort law ought to be understood as a law of genuine legal duties (guidance rules), rather than predictions about sanctions (liability rules).

To be sure, Orwell said that what he wrote in his dystopian novels were warnings rather than predictions, but let's forget about that for a moment.

Fast forward a few years, this activity involves making the fortune teller rather than predictions, which is fun in itself, and helps students with multiplication.

DAVID BERMAN New York, Aug. 29, 2013 Mr. Maskin argues that economics is a science like seismology in that it primarily provides explanations rather than predictions.

As a result of this opposition, the board announced its intention to focus on disclosure of the "contentions of the parties rather than predictions of outcome". Given that the current FAS 5 standard requires estimating liability, a shift away from "prediction" is a dramatic move away from improving information for investors.

These are confidence intervals rather than prediction intervals which would be appropriate for predicting an observation rather than the expected daily response.

But the new program is being called "observation" rather than prediction.

But the alphabet prediction is presumably the result of good luck and coincidence, rather than prediction or insider knowledge.

These techniques often downplay the importance of interaction variables that have small predictive ability but that are critical when the ultimate goal is decision making rather than prediction.

Challenges of not knowing the functional form of the relationship between drivers or which of several potential drivers is limiting a response at any time are dealt with by performing analyses in the framework of uncertainty reduction rather than prediction.