Given current policy and political uncertainties and the multiple equilibria that they entail it is difficult to predict with a high degree of confidence which road eventually will be taken and when.

One can predict with a high degree of confidence that the Polish Fourth Republic that the PiS would like to build will have to come to terms with the limited space in Europe for messianic visions and Christian fundamentalism.

Some drug researchers predict that with continuing advances in understanding the human genome, doctors may eventually be able to predict illnesses 15 20 years in advance, and begin prophylactic treatment immediately.

The outcome is difficult to predict.

With an informational text, students predict what they might learn or read about in subsequent passages.

That is why it appears safer to predict high volatility in 2010 than to predict that home prices will rise.

Some, indeed, now predict a Chinese banking or fiscal disaster others predict long term stagnation equivalent to Japan s lost decades.

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.

So, for the moment, the election is too far off to know or predict anything with certainty.

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Economists did not predict that event, either.

Most economists predict a healthy 5 annual growth rate in 2011, together with positive fiscal and external results.

WASHINGTON, DC At a time when the global economy is suffering from a crisis of confidence, structural imbalances, and subdued growth prospects, looking ahead ten years to predict the course of development requires careful modeling and something beyond sagacity.

But we cope better with candidly acknowledged uncertainty than with false confidence.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

Some people even predict a double dip recession.

It s tempting to predict how this will end.

What will happen is still impossible to predict.

But what Orwell failed to predict is that China s government has accomplished this with the help of Western democracies.

Numerous land and sea ecosystems are in danger of being destroyed forever, with effects that are hard to predict.

It is impossible for anyone to predict bubbles accurately.

I cannot predict who will win this growing confrontation.

It is far too soon to predict another revolution.

The endgame to any crisis is difficult to predict.

No sound monetarist thinks those numbers predict current inflation.

And some also predict ethnic clashes in the country.

Serum aldosterone levels predict risk of elevated blood pressure.

Success breeds confidence, and confidence brings progress.

With their backs against the wall, I predict, poor and working class Americans will begin to agitate for social justice.

In Syria, nobody is prepared to predict the outcome of what is turning into a bloody battle with sectarian overtones.

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

Without legitimacy, no government can rule with any sense of confidence.

I had very little confidence to use Berber with native speakers.

He lacks confidence, is socially uneasy and struggles with school work.

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There is currently insufficient data to predict either outcome confidently.

He performed research demonstrating that his theories could predict behavior.

Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

Until house prices stabilize, these securities cannot be valued with any confidence.

European leaders have responded with a cacophony of proposals for restoring confidence.

Those who predict capitalism s demise have to contend with one important historical fact capitalism has an almost unlimited capacity to reinvent itself.

No one can predict exactly what surprises are in store tonight.

Some scientists today predict a repeat of an avian flu pandemic.

It can predict complex negotiations or situations involving coercion that is in essence everything that has to do with politics, much of what has to do with business, but sorry, if you're looking to speculate in the stock market, I don't predict stock markets OK, it's not going up any time really soon.

Narrator Lynn Verinsky, a professional climber, who appeared to be brimming with confidence.