Word: predictible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet Union has no machinery to ensure a smooth succession. Theoretically, of course, any member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There...
...success of this new approach - whether it is a cause or an effect of the split with Cleaver - is hard to predict. The current issue of the Panther paper features five Party leaders declaring their long-standing devotion to Newton, but there are reports that Party chapters around the country are dividing into two camps...
...difficult to predict the lines along which the Party may divide, or how much violence may accompany the split, just as it is hard to pinpoint its ideological or practical basis...
Matthew Feinberg, staff counsel for the CLUM, said he could not predict precisely when further action on the case would come. He explained that no action could be taken until the U.S. Marshal served the complaint to the defendants, a procedure which normally takes no more than ten days. Once the complaint is served, the defendants have 20 days to respond...
Then comes the end, and that is anybody's guess. Ali's for example: Five minutes before the fight, he plans to remove a sheet of paper from a sealed envelope inscribed: THE SECRET OF MUHAMMAD ALI. Then, while the closed-circuit TV cameras zero in, he will predict the round in which Frazier will fall. That, of course, is not Joe's style at all. But his prediction makes more sense. "I wouldn't really want to say who will win," he says. "But one thing I do know. It will be one hell of a fight...