The foreign relations of North Korea are often tense and unpredictable.

The foreign relations of North Korea ( officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ) are often tense and unpredictable.

The Platte River and the North Platte River in the future states of Nebraska and Wyoming typically had many channels and islands and were too shallow, crooked, muddy and unpredictable for travel even by canoe.

Although the soil of the North China Plain is fertile, the weather is unpredictable, being at the intersection of humid winds from the Pacific and dry winds from the interior of the Asian continent.

Additionally, there are difficulties navigating over featureless expanses of water for thousands of miles, and the weather, especially in the North Atlantic Ocean is often unpredictable and violent.

As the historian Fritz Fischer pointed out, this could be proven by Jagow ’ s request to know the full itinerary of Wilhelm ’ s North Sea cruise before the Austrian ultimatum was presented because: “ Since we went to localize the conflict between Austria and Serbia, we must not have the world alarmed by His Majesty ’ s returning prematurely ; on the other hand, His Majesty must be within reach, in case unpredictable developments should force us to take important decisions, such as mobilization.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

At some time in the past the Soviet government decided that Omega Red was too unpredictable and treacherous to be relied upon, and so needed to be put in cryogenic suspended animation until a method could be found to control him.

Pitt could have forced the issue by creating a new government, but he decided that was not a viable solution, as a crisis in the government could result in an unpredictable shift of power.

At the time, the House of Commons was governed by a minority government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that could fall at anytime, so this unpredictable election situation meant that Cash was a candidate for over a year and half.

Critics suggested the projected deficit was higher than it should be as a way of the government providing good news when the deficit turns out to be lower and called for more cuts and faster cuts, while Dexter's government said unpredictable conditions in the worldwide economy required caution and stated the opposition would need to explain where extra cuts would come from.

The main advantage of a spinning netshot is that the opponent will be unwilling to address the shuttlecock until it has stopped tumbling, since hitting the feathers will result in an unpredictable stroke.

Although the mechanics of ballpoint pens remain relatively unchanged, ink composition has evolved to solve certain problems over the years, resulting in unpredictable sensitivity to light and some extent of fading.

This seemingly unpredictable behavior has been called chaos.

He compared the market to a game in which ' there is no point in calling the outcome just or unjust ' and argued that ' social justice is an empty phrase with no determinable content '; likewise " the results of the individual's efforts are necessarily unpredictable, and the question as to whether the resulting distribution of incomes is just has no meaning.

While the volcanic ash has resulted in fertile soils, it makes agricultural conditions unpredictable in some areas.

Libyan inclinations for full-scale political union, however, have obstructed formal political collaboration because Algeria has consistently backed away from such cooperation with its unpredictable neighbour.

The drug has been known to alter mood states in an unpredictable fashion, causing some individuals to become detached, and others to become animated.

If each of two hypothetical experimenters, Alice and Bob, has one of the particles that form an entangled pair, and Alice measures the spin of her particle, the measurement will be entirely unpredictable, with a 50 % probability of the spin being up or down.

showed that we can use macroscopic oil droplets on a vibrating surface as a model of wave – particle duality — localized droplet creates periodical waves around and interaction with them leads to quantum-like phenomena: interference in double-slit experiment, unpredictable tunneling ( depending in complicated way on practically hidden state of field ) and orbit quantization ( that particle has to ' find a resonance ' with field perturbations it creates — after one orbit, its internal phase has to return to the initial state ).

Sailing has a reputation for being a boring spectator sport, but skiff racing can be very exciting, particularly in unpredictable conditions where crews struggle to keep their boats upright.

This ensures that the Workshop has reliable access to funding for its programming without depending on unpredictable grants.

Ménière's disease, being unpredictable, has a variable prognosis.

Farm living has always been susceptible to unpredictable environmental conditions, and in times of drought, flood or pestilence, survival may become extremely problematic.

In addition to the production of eggs capable of overwintering, this switch to sexual reproduction has also been proposed to allow greater offspring variation ( through genetic recombination ), which may be useful in varied or unpredictable conditions, this idea is often proposed as the lottery model.

Libyan inclinations for full-scale political union, however, have obstructed formal political collaboration because Algeria has consistently backed away from such cooperation with its unpredictable neighbour.

Due in large part to its rapidly changing demographics, Flagler County is often an unpredictable county in presidential and other elections, although the general trend has been towards the Democratic party in recent years.

Ideally, for encryption schemes, the unpredictable part of the IV has the same size as the key to compensate time-memory-data trade-off attacks.

Because of its location on two very unpredictable rivers, Waterloo has been ravaged by many floods.

Hatsumi has a non-standoffish teaching approach, leading Black Belt Magazine to call him " wild, funny, unpredictable, and a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

He has been quoted as saying, " Spying is unpredictable, there's no reason I should be.

It may refer to a feral horse that has lived in the wild its entire life, but is also used to refer to domestic horses not yet fully trained to saddle, and hence prone to unpredictable behavior, particularly bucking.

Even so, the flat country and weather uncertainties made flooding much more unpredictable than in the case of the Nile ; serious deluges seem to have been a regular occurrence, requiring constant maintenance of irrigation ditches and drainage systems.

This fighting strategy allows quick and unpredictable counter attacks, the ability to focus on more than one adversary and to face empty-handed an armed adversary.

This means a compressed message is more unpredictable, because there is no redundancy ; each bit of the message is communicating a unique bit of information.

This made gameplay much more difficult, especially since the unpredictable nature of the Internet made the amount of delay vary from moment to moment.

Its behavior is much more stochastic or unpredictable.

Rogue states, however, may not be subject to this assumption and, as such, relations with them may be more complicated and unpredictable.

Around the turn of the century, however, harmonic and metric devices became either more rigid, or much more unpredictable, and each approach had a liberating effect on rhythm, which also affected ballet.

" Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes (" Town with No Cheer ") and marimba (" Shore Leave ") to Waits ' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion ( sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch ), horn sections ( often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music ), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments ( many of Waits ' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin ).

Most of these attempts failed, though, due to the zebra's more unpredictable nature and tendency to panic under stress.

Cryptographic applications require the output to also be unpredictable, and more elaborate designs, which do not inherit the linearity of simpler solutions, are needed.

During perimenopause, the ovarian production of the estrogens and progesterone becomes more irregular, often with wide and unpredictable fluctuations in levels.

The same concepts are known in more general mathematics as stochastic convergence and they formalize the idea that a sequence of essentially random or unpredictable events can sometimes be expected to settle down into a behaviour that is essentially unchanging when items far enough into the sequence are studied.

* Non-reversible and unpredictable transformations described by mathematically more complicated transformations ( see quantum operations ).

Under such influences he came more and more to embrace the ideal of artistic realism and all that it entailed, whether this concerned the responsibility to depict life " as it is truly lived "; the preoccupation with the lower strata of society ; or the rejection of repeating, symmetrical musical forms as insufficiently true to the unrepeating, unpredictable course of " real life ".

Giménez also began wearing sunglasses more often, presumably to hide her bruises, and many times, paparazzi had to be hospitalized from the beatings suffered at the hands of Monzón, who had unpredictable violent outbreaks.

In more complex medieval cases, the sometimes conflicting principles of proximity of blood and primogeniture competed, and outcomes were at times unpredictable.

Their performances became even more unpredictable, and Pop often had trouble standing up on stage due to his extreme drug abuse.

The American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems — Safety Requirements ( ANSI / RIA R15. 06-1999 ) defines a singularity as “ a condition caused by the collinear alignment of two or more robot axes resulting in unpredictable robot motion and velocities .” It is most common in robot arms that utilize a “ triple-roll wrist ”.

Controlled by the BattleBots hazard operator " Pulverizer Pete ", the arena hazards are intended to make fights more interesting and unpredictable, and to reward drivers who can avoid the hazards while pushing or carrying their opponent into them.

He began losing many of his former fans, who preferred when he kept things more unpredictable, and it would be years before his kind of manic balance would find a television home again.

Chaplin disliked the unpredictable weather of Chicago, and left after only one year for more money and more creative control elsewhere.