Sentence examples for relatively uncontrollable from inspiring English sources
Threats posed by terrorism, he said, "are horrific to contemplate, seem relatively uncontrollable and are catastrophic".
It has been defined as "a chain of thoughts and images" that are "negatively affect laden and relatively uncontrollable" (Borkovec et al. 1983).
On a scale ranging from 0 to 100, positive images were perceived as mostly controllable (M = 72.9, SD = 28.4) and negative images as relatively uncontrollable (M = 31.9, SD = 28.6).
Worry is yet another form of repetitive negative thinking and can be defined as a chain of thoughts and images that are negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable (Borkovec et al. 1983; Roemer and Borkovec 1993).
Worry is a primary cognitive characteristic of anxiety, and has been described as 'a chain of thoughts and images, negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable' (Borkovec, Robinson, Pruzinsky, & DePree, 1983, p. 10).
2 In support of this, recent work in the context of phobic fears showed that relatively controllable avoidance behavior was best predicted by self-reported associations, whereas relatively uncontrollable fear responses (startle probe reflex) were best predicted by automatically activated associations (Huijding & de Jong, 2006).
The prior stress experience we used was exposure to a relatively short series of uncontrollable and unpredictable aversive events (brief electric footshocks); Weiss (1971) had previously shown that such treatment when very intense and prolonged was itself ulcerogenic.
Engineers have known for generations that relatively small electric currents cause painful and uncontrollable muscle contractions.
Even the neatest (and I use the word relatively) of those mosaic ciphers look like uncontrollable explosions of toxic bacterial spores.
While the fires now are relatively small, they threaten to combust into an uncontrollable conflagration that will leave customers wondering why they don't have access anymore to their favorite websites or mobile applications.
It was found that conventional stirred-tank fermentor was difficult to operate with the fungal mycelia growing uncontrollable everywhere in the fermentor, causing a relatively low MPA productivity.
