The security fence was a temporary, non violent defensive measure to prevent suicide bombing and, contrary to the Special Rapporteur's predictions, had been dramatically successful.

Contrary to his predictions, capitalism spawned ever higher standards of living for more than a century, while attempts to implement radically different systems have fallen spectacularly short.

Contrary to many predictions by economic experts, the crisis has not been limited to the financial sector. Instead, it is generating a massive impact on the real economy hitting the automobile and chemical industries especially hard.

We have the technology to make predictions.

If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.

Mr. Ford made his predictions,

Shehu And from there we will be able to, hopefully, make better predictions and then we compare it to the graph and also make some predictions.

I hope Tom's predictions are wrong.

You're constantly making predictions about your environment.

Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions

Geneticists often express skepticism about such predictions.

Predictions of outright default are far fetched.

The basic idea was to solicit thousands of predictions from hundreds of experts about the fates of dozens of countries, and then score the predictions for accuracy.

The forecasters have now shifted their predictions of 3 plus growth to 2011.

How can we know if these predictions are correct?

And there's predictions that we'll be nine billion by 2050.

So let me give you a few examples of predictions.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

These are ominous predictions, especially in light of troop movements.

And these things happen all the time. You're making these predictions.

Fed up with apocalyptic predictions, people wanted a miracle in Copenhagen.

Such predictions counsel caution against over reaction by policymakers outside Japan.

The point is that we should be wary of hyperbolic predictions.

Particularly in the world of sea ice, the rate of natural change is outstripping predictions of just a few years ago, and the processes either are accelerating or the predictions were too low to begin with.

If we are to take climate change predictions seriously, the international community should strengthen these initiatives.

A major problem is that such predictions often confuse resources with reserves.

However, in courts, as in the open sea, predictions often prove unreliable.

As Williams points out, predictions don't necessarily need to be accurate, but they need to be clear (2011).

The word came into you, and you're making these predictions all the time.

Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

Worse still, they have made no serious attempt to identify why their earlier predictions have had to be revised.

So, contrary to expectations, things stayed put.

Countless dire predictions, from that of Malthus to that of the Club of Rome, have been proven wrong.

Quite the contrary.

Quite the contrary.

At this rate, current oil output and oil exports now exceed post invasion predictions.

To be sure, such predictions may well prove accurate if they do, the rest of the world will benefit.

Given the lack of detailed regional information on climate change impacts, specific predictions and adaptations are difficult to make.

Globonomics! on the other hand links to contrary opinion.

All such attacks are contrary to international humanitarian law.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.

The verdict disproved gloomy predictions of a hung parliament and the further strengthening of regional parties.

Despite power consumption issues, and repeated predictions of its end, Moore's law is still in effect.

Many equations, including the Drake equation, use estimates as the basis for their calculations and predictions.

Indeed, since 1992 predictions that AIDS would slow economic growth in these countries have been published.