And wait for me on the trail to ambush me?

I'll write up the papers and send them around for your signature...

Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't.

So they tend to expect the future to be worse than it ends up being.

She was an evil woman too selfish to sign, so I spent those 11 years kneeling and praying.

Alan Kay is famous for saying the best way to predict the future is to invent it.

These factors give good grounds for expecting further dollar weakness.

Provision is made for account receivables for which no reasonable expectation of recovery exists.

The Delphi method was developed at the beginning of the Cold War to forecast the impact of technology on warfare.

A comprehensive implementation plan was developed to be signed on 13 November 2002 by Entity and cantonal ministers of education.

No provision is made for the 330 electoral monitors anticipated to come from within El Salvador.

Aid flows should be predictable and aligned with countries' needs.

For example, all sales offices are rolled up to the sales department or sales division to anticipate sales trends.

We encourage them to stay the course and continue to work hard, fully mindful of the prospect of the withdrawal of the United Nations Mission.

Still, government must develop the institutional capability to anticipate and act within the same news cycle.

But perhaps time is too short to expect such changes in positions held over the years by various delegations.

It continues to try to predict what I need based on some past characterization of who I am, of what I've already done.

Scholars of the region, like myself, are also recognizing that our understanding of Arab politics did not anticipate this wave of successful protest.

It was the primary purpose of the social worker, the aim, to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life, to sign the adoption papers.

VIENNA For most people, a promise is a reason to expect something, a well founded hope without hype.

If such acts were not accepted or could not be legitimately expected by other States, they could in theory be revoked at will.

There was no way to predict how far it would spread through water supplies and how bad the situation would get.

To expect the worst which is to be jailed for 3 days till we write good feedback about you and let u go there may be no jial and only apologizing letter.

Azerbaijan was pleased that on the whole the World Economic and Social Survey 2005 projected economic growth and favourable prospects for development.

That brings up the question of how to improve the intelligence available to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to anticipate events and to prepare the resources that will be needed for future operations.

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

Such behaviour is often the result of an expectation of real or imagined benefits from the political formations, often at the cost of other communities.

After doing this nearly 200 times with each person, and plugging the information into a learning algorithm, software was used to predict and generate their future dreams.

In anticipation of a funding shortfall in 1994, the Agency had carried forward the austerity measures imposed in 1993, despite their direct negative effect on the quality of services.

In January 2010, despite strict administrative control of financial credit lines (the PBC actually imposed credit ceilings on commercial banks), bank lending grew at an annual rate of 29 , on top of already strong expansion in the same period a year earlier.

Every new invention changes the world in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences.

(a) The increase in the volume of cases that started in 2002 has been continuous and is expected to last through the 2006 2007 biennium given that several missions are expected to either close or downsize

Given the promise of significant spillover effects for the global economy, including many developing countries, there is a continued need for support from the international community to help sustain the adjustment process.

I wrote and wrote I liquidated all the arrears of my correspondence, and then went on writing to people who had no reason whatever to expect from me a gossipy letter about nothing at all.

Studies on the light emitted by laser trapped francium 210 ions have provided accurate data on transitions between atomic energy levels which are fairly similar to those predicted by quantum theory.

22. The proposed allocation for the care and maintenance assistance for urban refugees is lower than that of 1994, as some of the refugees are expected to have attained self reliance, and a durable solution may have been found for others during the course of 1994.

If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie s commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?

Responsibility to devise a strategy for anticipating security needs and addressing them in a timely manner, referred to in recommendation 2 in the OIOS report, was taken over from the Office of Central Support Services by the Department of Safety and Security.

More crisis anticipation and prevention efforts were necessary, particularly concerning the international financial system's monitoring role and its capacity to detect crises that could undermine national economies and the economic environment at the regional and global levels.

257. It was decided that the Commission would hold its twenty eighth session from 2 to 26 May 1995 at Vienna, which duration was considered necessary in view of the expectation that three draft legal texts would be submitted to the Commission for finalization and adoption.

(e) The proposed post structure for the biennium 2004 2005 should reflect reductions and shifts in requirements within the International Tribunal for Rwanda owing to the expected completion of investigations by 2003 and, where appropriate, address any new requirements for established posts through redeployment

So we may tell ourselves that the geologists could be wrong, and perhaps no tsunami will hit Padang in the next 30 years, and by then perhaps we will have new and better technologies for predicting them, giving people more time to get to higher ground.

With the expected adoption by the General Assembly of a further universal instrument, the draft convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism, the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice may wish to provide guidance to UNODC regarding future legislative assistance to promote this latest universal instrument against terrorism, once adopted.