The forces of nature can be benign, but at the same time destructive, unforgiving and unpredictable.

Unpredictable human psychology also plays a role.

Unpredictable situations made management very complex.

Material foreseeable risk factors

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.

Political change in Pakistan is assured, but it will come about in a way that cannot be foreseen.

The eventual need for the population to move is not merely predictable but inevitable, unless the process is halted or reversed.

Road traffic accidents are predictable and therefore preventable.

Recurrence intervals of these events are neither regular nor predictable.

What is most alarming is that this crisis is predictable and preventable.

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

The effectiveness of available options is limited, and all of them are pregnant with unpredictable political and military consequences.

The former engage in predatory and unpredictable regulation, which produces a bad business environment.

The problem is that basic scientific research is mostly a public good that cannot be withheld from those who use it and which seeps into the body of scientific know how in unanticipated ways.

After his recovery, Carlos became wild and unpredictable in his behavior.

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

But predicting how nature works is a very risky game.

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

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

These different models have predictable implications for international economic policies.

While it tried to take account of traffic patterns, they were not always predictable.

Mr. Farooq (Pakistan) said that no organization could deliver results without adequate and predictable resources.

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

After all, the security environment in East Asia is unpredictable and rapidly changing, unlike in Europe, where it is relatively stable.

The practice of annual voluntary contributions should be reviewed, for such contributions were by nature unpredictable and always insufficient.

Traffic that is never ceasing and never predictable

Countries are not like humans with predictable life spans.

These deaths and injuries are predictable, because they rise as the numbers of cars on the road increase.

A stable, predictable and conflict free environment acts as a magnet for foreign direct investment.

Due to the different color spectrum present, and the temporal changes occurring during the exposure, the results are somewhat unpredictable.

Mr. Wirajuda (Indonesia) We live in an age of unpredictable threats, against which there may be no airtight security measures.

The computer metaphor thus implies that living organisms are material systems that, facing an unforeseeable future, arrive at improbable solutions so that some of their progeny can survive in unpredictable conditions.

But we do know that the alternatives increasing sanctions, military strikes, and perhaps war would have unforeseeable consequences.

Such simple extrapolations of current economic growth rates often turn out to be mistaken because of unforeseen events.

The characteristics, which I think are useful to think about for simple things First, they are predictable.

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

Both are rare occurrences with usually predictable outcomes as voting outside the party line happens very seldom.

The alternative is collapse, unpredictable and merciless.

Unfortunately, that work relied heavily on unpredictable extrabudgetary funding, and when no voluntary contributions were received, the work had to be suspended.

Such mass migration will severely hurt already strained social relations in some countries and lead to unpredictable consequences.

Given the very limited scope and unpredictable nature of the conditions that it would cover, the premium for such a policy would be very low.

The second would lead to even more riots in the streets of Greece, with unforeseeable political consequences.

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

A long and unpredictable path is ahead but there is still hope.

In general, history, rather than economic theory, seems to offer a guide to interpreting wildly surprising and inherently unpredictable events.