The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas has argued that the crisis was not predicted because economic theory predicts that such events cannot be predicted.

FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 second) should be above 80 of predicted values to be considered normal.

That's smaller than I predicted I predicted three to 10 million but is still a very large number.

Mr. Ford predicted that flying cars of some form would be available.

Tangible results were predicted to come soon.

This is also predicted to grow strongly.

Although the doctors initially predicted a six week recovery, after two months they predicted that it might be a year or longer before she felt completely well.

When interest rates fall, the opposite effect on asset prices may be predicted.

Soviet leaders predicted that Finland would be conquered in a couple of weeks.

For example, Koc values can be predicted from octanol water partition coefficients (Kow).

Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.

The old man predicted our success.

No one could have predicted this.

Roger Ebert predicted that the film, ..for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

Placement of anti satellite (ASAT) weapons is predicted to be among the initial moves that would put weapons in space.

Judge Meron predicted that trials would have to run into 2009.

So if I'd have done this in 1994, I could have predicted what Walmart would be now.

A number of years ago, Mr. Ford predicted that flying cars of some form would be available.

They also predicted that the newsworthiness of a bill would be more important than journalists personal characteristics.

There he helped to strengthen the theory that eruptions can be predicted, to some degree, by changes in the makeup of volcanic gases.

At the beginning of the campaign, many observers predicted that Iraq would be the major issue in 2008.

Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past.

Back in March 2009, the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas confidently predicted that the US economy would be back to normal within three years.

In addition, NGAL levels are relative to each person, and a study on specific numbers and their accurate predicted outcomes is yet to be done.

In particular, GDP growth is expected to be 1 per cent lower than predicted earlier in Sri Lanka owing to the effects of the tsunami.

But growth in 2011 had been predicted to slow even before the earthquake.

At the same time, almost one third of the stimulus was devoted to tax cuts, which Keynesian economics correctly predicted would be relatively ineffective.

Although growth continued in 2004, experts predicted that Iraq will be an importer of agricultural products for the foreseeable future.

Scientific holism holds that the behavior of a system cannot be perfectly predicted, no matter how much data is available.

Projected income is at a higher level than in the previous biennium, since investment returns are predicted to be more favourable than in 2004 2005.

The overall budget deficit is still predicted to be 4.1 of Greece s GDP in 2013 a substantial improvement compared to 2010 but still far from fiscal balance.

In contrast, women who were told that their opponent was female performed as would be predicted by past ratings of performance.

Instead, the problem this time around is one that relatively calm times have helped reveal the predicted benefits of financial globalization are nowhere to be seen.

After completion, the use of rail transportation in Istanbul is predicted to rise from 3.6 to 27.7 .

He predicted an overall twentieth century global warming of 0.8 ºC.

Sometimes interest rate changes have the predicted effect, sometimes they don't.

In this brand new slideshow , Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.

Lazarus notes the widely accepted philosophical principle that happiness depends on the background psychological status of the person...and cannot be well predicted without reference to one's expectations.

Before the EU s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration waves.

Some analysts have even predicted a slow death of the Greek economy.

Neither alternative is something that I would have predicted or even imagined.

Of course, one cannot at reasonable cost prevent all possible damage from calamities, which strike randomly and in locations that cannot always be predicted.

Egypt is entering a new era. But the radical policy upheavals predicted by analysts will prove to be small tremors. Saudi interests will continue to weigh heavily on Egyptian foreign policy.

Pundits predicted a win for Saeed Jalili, calling him the Supreme Leader's favorite.

The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.