What is possible, however, is to estimate a range of possible trajectories, based on the best understanding of how ocean currents transport material.
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Crookshanks makes her weekly prediction by being given a range of possible results to choose from.
In a bell-curve distribution of probabilities, the range of possible events are clumped together around the average.
It says that the main effect on its forecast is to increase the range of possible outcomes.
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The range of possible venues was small but promising, with about 18 hosts throwing open dinner parties over the upcoming month.
He analysed them and the vast range of possible futures that they presented.
Option B would reduce GHG emissions by 70% by 2050, but would do so across a range of possible futures.
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And NATO, out of that meeting, is continuing its planning for the full range of possible options, including a no-fly zone.
But at least our policy makers understood the range of possible outcomes.
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JAL, which are in the market for goods that are virtually commodities, will probably seek to broaden their range of possible suppliers.
Deputy District Attorney Tamara L Capone said outside the court that negotiations were continuing and that there was a range of possible outcomes.
When researchers looked in more detail and included a wider range of possible indicators of an epilepsy diagnosis the incidence dropped by 47%.
Defense companies need to consider the full range of possible future outcomes, and not dismiss options like diversification just because they require new thinking.
Back then the range of possible outcomes was quite widely spread: in effect, the Bank thought that anything could happen, including something very good.
Since the future is uncertain, they are run thousands of times, with different values for the parameters, to produce a range of possible outcomes.
Investigators are considering a range of possible motives, including unlawful financial gain, theft of trade secrets and a national-security threat designed to damage the exchange.
The range of possible predictions is then laid out before Crookshanks.
The chances of some of the other endlessly-touted cars actually making it to the streets, however, range from possible (the pickup) to extremely farfetched (the Brazilian hatchback).
But the researchers are considering a range of possible associations.
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Assuming a range of possible average ownerships across the entire portfolio of 10-40%, the table highlights the implied total aggregate value of all the portfolio companies of the fund.
You can also pay for speedier 4G, though the company's claim of "up to 50 percent faster" performance is a vague one, given that the range of possible speeds is so broad to begin with.
The patent also describes responses to touch input, including both visual and force feedback cues, and it offers a whole range of possible applications beyond the independent claims, including an aircraft cockpit or vehicle display.
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But we do allow for the stadium properties indirectly by applying a range of possible multiples: high ones for a good stadium available on favorable terms, lower ones for a run-down stadium or one available on poor terms.
In the meantime, Sir Howard, a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, said the commission would look at the options for increasing airport capacity within the existing framework and how to narrow down the range of possible approaches.
Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
By feeding into his model both some recent science on the increased risks of dramatic climate change, and the possibility of such catastrophes as a rise in sea level big enough to flood London and New York, he calculates that the range of possible outcomes lies somewhere between 5% and 20% of global output over the next century or two.
"It's a balancing act to provide the best possible range of health care services at the lowest possible cost, " said Republican Gov. George Pataki.
The goal of a statesman was to ensure that the spirit had the widest possible range of objects.
Only when you see football at close range is it possible to understand the dimensions of the brain-injury problem.
All that is needed is for each generation to be encouraged to form its own identity from the widest range of materials possible.
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