Sentence examples for struggled to predict from inspiring English sources

Even Yoda would have struggled to predict that.

Such a change would raise sea levels by some five metres around the world, but scientists have struggled to predict when it might happen.

Hurricane Frances tormented the public psyche for days as forecasters struggled to predict where it would make landfall, whether it would weaken, and which parts of the state it would thrash.

Top flu experts struggled to predict how dangerous the new swine flu strain would be as it became clear that they had too little information about Mexico's outbreak -- in particular how many cases had occurred in what is thought to be a month before the outbreak was detected, and whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

Top global flu experts struggled to predict how dangerous the new A (H1N1) swine flu strain would be as it became clear that they had too little information about Mexico's outbreak — in particular how many cases had occurred in what is thought to be a month before the outbreak was detected, and whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

Back in 1989, this is where Tim Berners-Lee wrote the computer code that gave birth to the world wide web – but even he would have struggled to predict how this would alter the way science is done and, importantly, talked about.

As returns from the general elections held on Nov. 11 filter in, local and foreign officials here are struggling to predict what they mean.

After spending many years watching economists and financial analysts struggling to predict the future, I perhaps have a jaundiced view of the usefulness of statistical forecasts in the social sciences.

As climate change causes sea level to rise, wetland scientists are struggling to predict which salt marshes will drown and which might climb out of danger.

With current physics-based models struggling to predict the climate a decade or two out, modelers may be inclined to give stochastic methods a roll of the dice especially as better tools emerge for testing models against the climate record.

When combined with new loads, such as electric vehicles, for which there is no historical charging pattern data, traditional utility control centers are struggling to predict supply-demand imbalances.