Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ).

Time permitting, McLaughlin may ask the panelists for " Predictions " at the close of the episode, at which time each panelist makes a near or long term prediction on a topic of his or her own choosing.

Predictions must also be reliable, as false alarms and cancelled alarms are not only economically costly, but seriously undermine confidence in, and thereby the effectiveness of, any kind of warning.

Predictions of similar increases in computer power had existed years prior.

Predictions made at one point in time would no longer be valid after any significant period of time had passed.

Predictions of the force were later extended to finite-conductivity metals and dielectrics by Lifshitz and his students, and recent calculations have considered more general geometries.

Predictions have been made that more than 40 % of the animal and plant species in Southeast Asia could be wiped out in the 21st century.

Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off the Moon by impacts would cause a detectable increase in the sodium tail of the Moon.

Predictions such as are routinely used within Kalman filters and smoothers to estimate current and past signal values, respectively.

Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture, second edition.

Predictions of quantum mechanics have been verified experimentally to an extremely high degree of accuracy.

Predictions tools made significant progress during the decade, UN-sponsored organisations such as the IPCC gained influence, and studies such as the Stern report influenced public support for paying the political and economic costs of countering climate change.

Predictions of ozone levels remain difficult.

* Predictions have been made for commercial hypersonic air travel by 2050.

: " The previously unrelased track " Predictions of Fire " which Laibach readily contributed to this compilation functioned in an early version as background to a 1994 speech of the NSK philosopher Peter Mlakar and is followed by an ecstatic dance orgy.

Predictions from both these theories have been confirmed in different experimental contexts, with no theory winning outright.

The Sub-bureau for Rapid Service and Predictions of Earth Orientation Parameters of the IERS, located at the United States Naval Observatory, monitors the Earth's rotation.

Predictions of the neoliberalism were extended to these six countries in four areas: urban systems and primacy, urban unemployment and informal employment, urban inequality and poverty, and urban crime and victimization.

Predictions from reliable sources have been used for these elements.

The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.

Numbers, Predictions, and War.

Predictions vary, including race war or a Jewish-backed United Nations takeover of the USA and endorse physical struggle against what they see as the forces of evil.

Predictions not sufficiently specific to be tested are similarly not useful.

Predictions of a future maximum's timing and strength are very difficult ; predictions vary widely.

** The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions ( together, part of the " Bickerstaff Papers ")

The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.

Predictions have often been made, from antiquity until the present, by using paranormal or supernatural means such as prophecy or by observing omens.

Their first collaboration came close.

One night, at the close of the evening service, he came forward, left his resentment at the altar and gave his heart to God.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality.

Only recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.

Kennedy even came close to agreeing to a joint US-USSR Moon mission, to eliminate duplication of effort.

However, although Apollonius came close to developing analytic geometry, he did not manage to do so since he did not take into account negative magnitudes and in every case the coordinate system was superimposed upon a given curve a posteriori instead of a priori.

The eleventh century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra, and was moving in the right direction when he helped to close the gap between numerical and geometric algebra with his geometric solution of the general cubic equations, but the decisive step came later with Descartes.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties and eventually merged in 1307 and came to be known as Berlin.

Noticing that the intentional ball came in too close to the plate, Cabrera swung at the ball, resulting in a base hit, and a run scored for Florida.

However, some researchers have disputed the major league status of the Union Association, pointing out that franchises came and went and contending that the St. Louis club, which was deliberately " stacked " by the league's president ( who owned that club ), was the only club that was anywhere close to major league caliber.

Pompey ordered his men not to charge, but to wait until Caesar's legions came into close quarters.

This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis, a period of military and economic collapse which came close to destroying the empire.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Rather, he said that it came directly from playing and living close to Negroes, and that he never did it necessarily as show, but more as a way to express his feelings.

Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

Earnhardt once again came close to a win at the Daytona 500, and dominated Speedweeks before finishing second to Dale Jarrett on a last-lap pass.

As the Cold War came to a close, internal and external pressures on Mobutu increased.

Al-Ghazi's forces and their Ottoman allies came close to extinguishing the ancient Ethiopian kingdom, but the Abyssinians managed to secure the assistance of Cristóvão da Gama's Portuguese troops and maintain their domain's autonomy.

Romansh came to be a written language, and therefore it is recognized as a language, even though it is very close to the Lombardic alpine dialects.

His battlecruisers achieved few hits on the enemy, with most of the damage being inflicted by the battleships when they eventually came close enough to take part.