The art of weather forecasting is as old almost as mankind, but only in recent years has it been placed upon a sound basis.
They were supposed to have been busy in forecasting the things which should come to pass in the far future.
The pagan oracles were the shrines of a Power sought for the forecasting of events.
Rest is bravely doing, While the past reviewing, Still the years forecasting With the Everlasting.
What though the triumph of thy fond forecasting Lingers till earth is fading from thy sight?
Deronda repeated, wishing to assure, himself that his ears had not been deceived by a forecasting imagination.
Another figure had been returned to the accuracy percentage forecasting figures of the huge computers that dictated the lives and luxuries of more than a half a billion Americans.
Chained to the desk by responsibility, he used the eyes of his junior engineers and surveyors to keep a semblance of the "seat of the pants" technique of forecasting that he had lived with and lived by.
And may I have experience of the good reward, and the good renown, and of the long forecasting preparation of the soul.
The ability of the mind to move forward, forecasting an order of events in time, is clearly very similar to its power of recalling events.
Even in the case of a recent past event, directly made known by present objective signs, the mind is liable to err just as in the case of forecastingan immediately approaching event.
Now this forecasting disposition has led the writer not only to publish a book of deliberate prophesying, called "Anticipations," but almost without premeditation to scatter a number of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books.
It is base and foolish to be forecasting our pleasures; the true temper is to be forecasting our work.
Do you not think that a wise man would take account of all the elements inforecasting his life and would shape his conduct accordingly?
He who is always forecasting possible issues has a very leaden rule of conduct, and will be so afraid of results that he will not dare to move; and his creeping prudence will often turn out to be the truest imprudence.
He was one of several gentlemen whom the long-forecasting George had carried with him to Grippy on those occasions when he was desirous to provide witnesses, to be available when the era should arrive that had now come to pass.
Other causes were also in operation destined to frustrate the long-forecasting prudence of her father.
Defn: Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.
Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
He is not announcing a policy; he is not forecasting what a party of planners will bring about; he is merely telling what the people will require and compel.
He was prophesying, and it seems to me that no shrewder and surer forecasting has been done in this country for a good many years.
It is disposition, interest, which leads an agent to estimate the consequences at their true worth; thus an upholder of the "content" theory ends by falling back upon the attitude taken in forecasting and weighing results.
We, indeed, estimate the import or significance of any present desire or impulse by forecasting what it would come or amount to if carried out; literally its consequences define its consequence, its meaning and importance.
He had used some tables drawn up by Babylonian astronomers, but he did not succeed in forecasting the exact day (May 28th) or the hour of the spectacular event.
Thales had studied astronomy in Egypt so he was able to draw up accurate tables forecasting when the River Nile would be in flood.
That he does this coolly, temperately, without enthusiasm, with full, clear forecasting of all the consequences, is only saying that he is Harold Transome still.
Impossibility of forecasting the conduct of others--Do criminals breed criminals?
It is God's law of Providence that a man shall be disciplined by sorrow; and to try to escape from that law by anyforecasting prudence, is utterly hopeless, and madness.
Then let the veil still hang, nor try to lift it with the hand of forecasting thought, nor be over-careful to make the future sure by earthly means, but let present blessings be parents of bright hopes.
Not for earth, but for heaven, let your forecasting gift of prophecy come into play.
Some similar forecasting is now going on within the consciousness of the people.
Bankers join with labor leaders in forecasting the triumph of the single-tax theory and the consequent overthrow of existing social conditions.
Repeated trials with a delicate galvanometer, applied to measure electric tension in the air, have proved these facts, which are now found useful for aiding, with the barometer and thermometer, in forecasting weather.
And yet hisforecasting mind is always detecting "possibeelities.
The Scot has the lower faculty in full degree; he has the forecasting leap of the mind which sees what to make of things--more, sees them made and in vivid operation.
Yet there is an undeniable line of successful forecasting by the hardy, to be found in the Scripture and in history.
Mere forecasting is left to the weather bureau so far as a great section of the purely literary and cultured are concerned.
But in the street, definite forecasting of future events is still the vulgar use of the term.
It indicates a certain power of forecasting on the part of the writer.
