All that can be observed is a succession of political experiments whose outcomes are highly contingent.
Since the beginning of time, human beings have had to make decisions whose outcomes are clouded by uncertainty.
Patients typically spent about a week in intensive care before recovering or dying; 14percentt of the patients whose outcomes were known when the study ended had died.
Despite these difficulties, Rusciano identified certain events, such as the First Persian Gulf War (1990 91), whose outcomes were bolstered by world opinion.
As President Gerald R. Ford's chief of staff, Mr. Cheney had a front-row seat on two of the most memorable debates of the past 25 years, debates whose outcomes turned on a single misstatement or miscalculation.
We are now entering a period of politics that is non-linear, politics whose outcomes will, from the old frame of reference, your frame of reference, be harder to predict.
From Lyndon B. Johnson's TV demolition of Barry Goldwater, to the infamous Willie Horton spot, the annals of our electoral politics are rife with examples of elections whose outcomes were determined by negative advertising campaigns.
The Socialist Party is left over from a Socialist movement whose battles have been won and whose outcomes have become part of the shared body of political & social assumptions.
Schools are also under tight community and national pressure to teach to tests and exams whose outcomes help shape Ofsted reports and league tables as well as local parental confidence.
"It is an exercise that can go either way and whose outcomes are not yet known at this stage," Mr. Tlali said in the interview, adding that a decision was likely to come in "weeks, not hours or days".
The inquiry, which is due to publish its final report in the autumn, has already recommended that those schools whose outcomes are not good enough for disabled children should not receive a "good" or "outstanding" Ofsted rating.
