The path to today s crisis was predictable.

Honestly, the aforementioned, alleged and, for now, unofficial decision sounds... predictable to me.

The predictable suspect is former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe.

PYONGYANG The most predicable thing about North Korea is its unpredictability.

The big obstacle is access to predictable and affordable finance.

But achieving such a compromise won t be a smooth or predictable process.

The Fund s proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry.

TOKYO Financial markets have greeted the election of Greece s new far left government in predictable fashion.

Fortunately, by sponsoring long term, targeted initiatives, governments can stimulate more predictable demand.

Syria s balkanization among the country s diverse ethnic and religious groups is a clearly predictable result.

But the fear premium could push it significantly higher, with predictably negative effects on the global economy.

The imminent US rate hike is perhaps the most predictable, and predicted, event in economic history.

Populist anger is one of the most predictable, and certainly inevitable, consequences of today s financial and economic crisis.

Russia s adherence to the WTO s legal framework should begin to make economic relations with it much more stable and predictable.

For Bingham, the law must be accessible and insofar as possible intelligible, clear, and predictable.

But it is a milestone, not a turning point, in what remains an ongoing struggle with no foreseeable end.

Death is, of course, a foreseeable consequence of avoiding that burden, but it is a byproduct that is not directly intended.

Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives. But even where family change continues apace, it has far less negative consequences when women have access to economic rights than when they do not.

Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives.

In short, 2006 will be marked by mounting uncertainty about prospects for global economic growth, even as the distribution of the fruits of that growth remain dismally predictable.

61. Underlines that the funding for administration of justice, based on cost sharing arrangements, should be clear, predictable and secure

Working to rebuild the traditional bipartisan foreign policy consensus would also make the US a far more predictable partner to friends and allies around the world.

And when the Fed decided to exit this strategy and raise rates in a steady and predictable fashion, so did the ECB.

But, as predictable as Russia s undemocratic system of governance usually is, the country does defy expectations once in a while.

Moreover, the deterioration was predictable history shows that the real stock of government debt explodes in the wake of recessions caused by financial crises.

While the weaker aircraft deliveries were mostly anticipated, we are clearly disappointed by the margin performance in transportation, Doerksen said in a client note.

It is based on the observation that the country's political system has long performed in a predictable way, consistently producing governments that promise more than they can deliver.

Such an approach would be less predictable and eliminate forward guidance, thereby discouraging excessive risk taking and reducing moral hazard.

The discussion has so far followed easily predictable national patterns Creditor countries do not object to deflation, because it increases the real value of their investment, whereas debtor countries repayment burdens would grow heavier.

my paranoid mind developed an idea that elections are called to ensure legitimacy for the coming years after 2012, because next year the outcome would have been not as predictable as now .

The puzzle, though, is that this trend has played out in a very gradual and predictable way, whereas the decline in interest rates has been more rapid and somewhat unexpected (certainly by central banks).

Unfortunately, if predictably, the remarkable success of efforts around the world to control the transmission of SARS particularly in Taiwan and mainland China has led some to question whether the threat of SARS was overblown.''

The problem is that the reforms needed to achieve such growth fighting corruption, protecting property rights, privatization, and integration into the global economy directly threaten the elite s ability to hold on to power and extract rents. For those in power, a big piece of a shrinking pie is preferable to no piece of a growing one, which is what most of the current elite would receive under a fair legal system with clear rules and predictable enforcement.