Her loss, scarcely predicted in the polls, and therefore all the more shocking to the people who voted for her (and who outnumber her opponent's supporters by more than a million and counting), has become a case study in political trauma.
They could scarcely have predicted the huge response that followed within just minutes, as hundreds more migrants continued to disembark at the Hauptbahnhof.
H. W. Brands could scarcely have predicted the events of Sept. 11 when he wrote "The Strange Death of American Liberalism".
Five months ago, the hierophants of fashion could scarcely have predicted what women would want to wear in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
DC began the afternoon facing a two-goal deficit after being dismantled in New York – a scenario they may scarcely have predicted when topping the Eastern Conference in the regular season, while New York were scraping into the playoffs.
Add in the overall context of large-scale changes in the social care system and it's scarcely possible to predict what's in store in a couple of months, let alone in the next few years.
But then Smith's death and his own sudden apotheosis could scarcely have been predicted.
It was the century too of totalitarianism: Communist, Fascist, and Nazi; and of techniques of terrorism that, if not novel, reached a scale and an intensity of scientific application that could scarcely have been predicted by those who considered science and technology as unqualifiedly humane in possibility.
Other studies have analyzed genetic data together with the even more scarcely available antigenic data, in attempts to understand and even predict the most likely emerging strains [22] [25].
Another route that has still scarcely been explored is the search for a transcriptomic signature to predict the risk of local recurrence after breast-conserving treatment (Kreike et al, 2006; Nuyten et al, 2006).
