After all, the good of democratic structures is their predictability.

Such an approach should ensure predictability, transparency and accountability.

Humanitarian response needs to become more predictable in all emergencies.

They make up their own minds and contribute to the unpredictability of modern elections.

Effective typologies also allow for increased ability to predict clinically relevant information about people and to develop effective treatment strategies.

In this respect, nuclear energy s advantages, particularly its reliability and predictable costs, stand out.

The predictability and availability of extra budgetary resources were closely linked to that balance.

Practical experience indicates that there is a lack of predictability in mobilizing adequate resources for peacebuilding based on voluntary contributions.

The notion of arbitrariness includes notions of capriciousness, injustice, unpredictability, disproportionality or unreasonableness.

Noting that technological developments and international cooperation have enhanced the capabilities for the prediction of the El Niño phenomenon and thereby the potential for the preventive actions that may be taken to reduce its negative impacts,

Noting that technological developments and international cooperation have enhanced the capabilities for the prediction of the El Niño phenomenon and thereby the potential for the preventive actions that may be taken to reduce its negative impacts,

Well, this has deep implications about the limits of science, about predictability and controllability of things like biological processes or economies, about intelligence in the universe, about questions like free will and about creating technology.

We believe that better defined guidelines for the use of force by the Council would contribute both to predictability of action and to the Council's credibility.

5. Notes the continued unpredictability of the service requirements for the activities of the Counter Terrorism Committee and the scope for absorption of some or all of the costs related to the servicing of the Committee

CRIC 3 confirmed that continued progress towards more predictable financial resources is a cornerstone of successful implementation of the Convention.

Likewise, Europe s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and unpredictability.

Is that possible? Could it be done quickly enough to boost other regional players confidence that the country s evolution will be predictable?

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

That is all the more important in periods like the current one of rapid change, high volatility, and only partly predictable systemic instability.

North Korea s unpredictability and China s cynical irresponsibility appear to be boxing in South Korean President Lee Myung bak s conservative government.

In accordance with the Committee's constant jurisprudence, arbitrariness is not to be equated with against the law , but must be interpreted more broadly to include elements of inappropriateness, injustice, lack of predictability and due process of law.

They need a way to visualize the future (they must have a representation of the state of the world and be able to make predictions about how their actions will change it) and be able to make choices that maximize the utility (or value ) of the available choices.

In November 2004, the Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors welcomed the draft Principles as a good basis for strengthening crisis prevention and enhancing the predictability of crisis management.30 The draft Principles are based on four pillars

Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.

The ability to anticipate the demographic transition with a fairly high degree of accuracy provides countries with ample room to better prepare for the challenges posed by ageing and makes it a surmountable problem, provided that proper action is taken in time.

In accordance with the Committee's constant jurisprudence, the notion of arbitrariness is not to be equated with against the law , but must be interpreted more broadly to include elements of inappropriateness, injustice, lack of predictability and due process of law.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

It is difficult to talk about standards of corporate governance in Russian state owned companies, since most do not even have regularly scheduled board meetings, owing to the unpredictability of government officials schedules.

The Perils of Prophecy

(d) Unpredictability of forecasting

To make sure that national planning is substantiated by more predictable funding, we would encourage donors to make predictable multi year pledges.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

Part 4 reviews and evaluates financial mechanisms established by multilateral environmental agreements the Part also reviews the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

The main challenges were the need for greater inflows of resource and greater access to markets the need for more predictability in policies and funding and the need to build Africa's capacity to manage its own development and ensure comprehensive and sustainable support for human rights.

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

3. Requests all meeting requesters and organizers to liaise closely with the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the Secretariat on all matters related to the scheduling of meetings to allow maximum predictability in coordinating activities at Headquarters during the construction period

Such long term unpredictability is why the former European Union foreign policy high representative Javier Solana and former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer assert that talks in Geneva are the only viable way out of the Syrian morass.

The representative of Afghanistan underscored that institutional reforms to promote predictability and transparency in the investment area had been put in place in his country, and an IPR under an Invest in Peace type of initiative could help his country to pursue reforms and adjustments to attract FDI.

The Power to End Poverty

The ability to enter into contracts and bring legal proceedings

We now have the power to waste, and we want to flaunt it.

We have to invest in transformations capability, moving from crisis into innovation and the ability to rise after a crisis, and of course to adapt to unavoidable change.

The alternative is collapse, unpredictable and merciless.

Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.

These different models have predictable implications for international economic policies.