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

These factors give good grounds for expecting further dollar weakness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

(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.