How To Use Certainty In A Sentence

I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
What we need is the Government to get this absolutely right and to provide certainty. Times, Sunday Times
The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
No certainty there of a fast surface. The Sun

By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
The lexical diarrhoea, the mememe contents, the Pennine Chain I-Know-Everything certainty. Fancy Forking Out £80 for Breakfast with Stephen Timms?
One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
This should mean that design costs will be cheaper and there will be more certainty from the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
Questions involving the environment are particularly prone to uncertainty.
For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home. A Channel of Peace
Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses. Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs
Thoughts were directed towards home, but there was also uncertainty about what they might do in Canada and what the government would do for them.
The move will help to lift a cloud of uncertainty over the industry. Times, Sunday Times
The regulator said the proposed undertakings also rely on third parties completing certain actions, and involve complex and long-term behavioural obligations that present risks, creating uncertainty that IOOF could become an effective competitor to the combined NAB-AXA. NAB's Bid for AXA Asia Dealt a Blow
During periods of punctuated equilibrium everything is in flux, disequilibrium becomes the norm, and uncertainty reigns!
The Government must provide stability and certainty on motoring taxes. The Sun
He's far from a certainty at this stage but he's pulled up reasonably well.
The approach is preliminary in nature and there can be no certainty that an offer will ultimately be forthcoming.
The union of Christ and the Father within the Godhead is that which we are to believe and rely upon for the certainty of our salvation.
He hammers too much in general upon our opinion's incertainty, and the possibility of erring makes him not venture on what is true. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
Later she was passed over for promotion to a position for which she had been regarded as a certainty.
Real world firms, and in particular real world entrants, face many kinds of uncertainty.
That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. Brene Brown
Their action begins a disruptive process that adds organisational turbulence to existing uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
What people want in a period of financial instability is certainty, not fiddling. Times, Sunday Times
A wonderfully eerie musical score accompanies the two youngsters as they pound miles of wet roads for hours on end, experiencing nothing but uncertainty at every turn.
Uncertainty again hangs over the project.
But try proving that you were denied the certainty of a glorious, enriching career because of something terrible that happened when you were 13 years old. Times, Sunday Times
Where now might certainty reside in such a condition? Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
This article classifies the uncertainty as essential one and uninformative one in term of its origin. The latter results from incomplete information and need more attention from economics.
Result: Uncertainty in each ponderance were analyzed and put forward combined standard uncertainty resides of the method.
As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
Second, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will stimulate the manufacturing sectors of member countries.
On a young team in transition with a new general manager, the only certainty is change. Organizational report: Padres spending their money wisely
But despite all the uncertainty and bustle it seems, admittedly to an outsider, that the older generation is coping admirably.
Uncertainty in the euro area is also likely to damp demand for Central European goods and to discourage investment by Western European firms in the region, Mr. Kalisz said. Growth in Emerging Countries Slows Significantly
People buy and hoard gold in times of uncertainty, economic and political. Times, Sunday Times
Providing information that reduces uncertainty is a second way a department can increase its power base.
What's worse is that the insider source was used to say that she was a certainty for the role and the article went onto hammer her and what they called her failing career. Filmstalker: Beckinsale wins Barbarella libel case
It's an interesting balance of uncertainty (Henry never knows where or when he'll go, or end up) with certainty (He sees events in Clare's future that cannot be altered). Book Report: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
First, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will enhance the efficiency of the price mechanism as a resource allocator.
However, he played with some uncertainty and tentativeness, and no one is sure just how durable he will be.
Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
Think deeply before you give up your comfortable life for the uncertainty of youthful life and love. The Sun
Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
The starting point for uncertainty that are analogous to the scienti ﬁ c the experimenter is the hypothesis that the drug is method. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
And what the songs lack in structural certainty or melodic eloquence they usually make up for in the remarkable depth and vibrancy of their textures.
He is a certainty to be included in the preliminary squad of up to 44 to be named on Monday week. Times, Sunday Times
Combined with fervid Methodism, you've got ruthless certainty.
The uncertainty is unbearable!
• Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation; Archive 2008-06-01
I have told them with absolute certainty there'll be no change of policy.
The early 1990s was a time of great economic and political uncertainty in Russia.
Why Should We Care: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have long said that Vincent is the only character that was guaranteed to survive until the end of the series, so his future participation seems like a certainty. LOST IN NUMBERS: Sixteen Recurring Characters We Hope To See Again In The Final Season » MTV Movies Blog
He avoided censure through his reputation for being proved right and the certainty that he spoke in the general interest - not his own. Times, Sunday Times
In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford. Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS
He was very refined in his conversation -- at least, what I call refined -- for he was one of those persons in whose society one is comfortable from the certainty that they will never say anything which can shock other people, or hurt their feelings, be they ever so fastidious or sensitive. Life of Charles Dickens
Some investors buy gold as a safe haven in times of political and economic uncertainty.
Nothing was too much trouble for her to do in the way of helping us, and oftentimes tears would bedim her eyes as she looked at me and baby, who always laughed at her; perhaps thinking of her loneliness after we were gone, perhaps of the possibility of our not returning to Tankar, and even of the uncertainty of life in the far interior. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
The uncertainty concerning the proper scope of IP rights is magnified by the onrush of technology.
There is considerable uncertainty about the company's future.
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
The uncertainty surrounding him would cause a chain of events and interviews, due diligence any team looking to acquire Williams in a trade would insist upon.
Uncertainty about the length of the transition makes it difficult for people to plan. Christianity Today
Robust estimates of uncertainty in field data can be carried forward to become explicit in published 3D models.
The advantage of the forward market is that the transaction is risk-free: the price is specified now, with certainty.
The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date. Here's a tax target for ya (Jack Bog's Blog)
They take advantage of people's dislike of uncertainty by providing insurance services.
Facilities such as these will allow the engineer to possibly gain deeper systems understanding and through this obtain greater diagnostic certainty.
We assume that agents can only live safely for the first two periods and face uncertainty as to whether they will survive to the third period.
He was, indeed, as Dr. Lavendar said, a man of humble mind; and yet with his humbleness was a serene certainty of belief as to his soul's welfare that would have been impossible to John Fenn, who measured every man's chance of salvation by his own theological yardstick, or even to Dr. Lavendar, who thought salvation unmeasurable. The Voice
There is too little certainty about the present state of the German economy.
That mental inquietude will impede digestion is a fact familiar to almost every one; but, I believe, it is not so generally known, that it will with no less certainty retard and alter the nature of the secretion furnished by the breasts of the lactescent female. Remarks on the Subject of Lactation
But I can tell you with a degree of certainty today, in terms of alternative pain management or alternative medicines, the Army has left few stones unturned in terms of looking at everything from acupuncture to other forms of therapy that are, in some regards, nonmainstream. How The U.S. Military Handles Suicidal Soldiers
There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
So I let the world go hang today, I shall go to my bed good and early, and look forward with reasonable certainty to a better day tomorrow.
He said a three-year deal would also allow uncertainty over the upgrade of the East Coast to be cleared up.
There is practical certainty as to payment, and that contingency does not affect the existence of the liability.
Besides uncertainty over whether lesions should be excised or ablated by a variety of techniques, the contribution of adjunctive presacral neurectomy or uterosacral nerve ablation-transection is unclear.
Personal uncertainty will combine with social pressure to encourage experiment.
I still prefer the uncertainty and randomness of crossword clues.
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
Internal uncertainty and external scrutiny are constant companions. Times, Sunday Times
Religion, rather than rigidifying our political ideologies and psychological orientations, ought to be destabilizing our certainties, as certainty is too often an enemy of compassion. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes.
Einthoven said in his work in 1895 that the efforts to fully interpret the electrocardiogram should be abandoned for the moment, and in a survey of the relevant literature up to the first half of 1912, the author** put emphasis on the uncertainty of the efforts to interpret the cardiogram. Physiology or Medicine 1924 - Presentation Speech
There probably hasn't been a time in history whereby there's so much uncertainty.
International investors have been quitting sterling assets since the referendum in June because of economic uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
The security of a government-funded human services position had been an improvement over the uncertainty of a solo carpentry business.
All I can say with certainty is that he is trying to live a purposeful life, for himself and his family. Times, Sunday Times
The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
The rhetoric fashion of people of ah age and a clime has its traits to a certainty. The traits form special modes of expression about aesthetic experience.
No certainty has yet been attained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Unlike English, Arabic thematic fronting may express incredulity, disbelief, suspicion, uncertainty, denial, limitation and/or exclusiveness on the part of the subject or the object.
In a single phrase, these words exempt the sentence's subsequent assertions of human equality and unalienable rights from the claims of traditional conduct, metaphysical certainty, and scientific proof.
When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
Where now might certainty reside in such a condition? Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
This political and bureaucratic game of musical chairs has the entire world on a knife edge, continued uncertainty and lack of confident decision making worsening sentiment.
Just 15 % of businesses favour the certainty of a swift deal. Times, Sunday Times
In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity, searching and tinkering.
It was the uncertainty that was so infuriating, not knowing where she was.
Not even Michael eased her mind to the same degree nor conveyed the same certainty of inviolable protection. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Her comments will add uncertainty to an already complicated situation.
Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
This theoretical uncertainty was fully supported by the experience of ancient and medieval technology.
Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
He looks like a choirboy and plays with a dreamy certainty, winding up his big, extended forehand to crunch winners with abandon. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the certainty of drink on the morrow let us sleep easily, lying on our bellies to prevent the inflation of foodlessness. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition. Times, Sunday Times
But this much we do know with apodictic certainty: virtually nothing in Iraq has gone as the US envisioned it. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
I have told them with absolute certainty there'll be no change of policy.
Should the law extend the definition beyond purpose to cover the awareness of the practical certainty that the crew would be killed?
Given the uncertainty over Leigh's future I was left with little other choice.
Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
I know with 100% certainty that my brother would have been safer sitting in his living room than being anywhere in Iraq.
It is an absolute mathematical certainty. The Sun
I can, however, say with reasonable certainty what the lampshade is to me. Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil
He wanted the manslaughter charge dropped and says the case is full of uncertainty.
I look forward to her future with uncertainty, I look to her past with a twinge of nostalgia.
The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future.
That lingering uncertainty cast a pall over stock and bond markets.
When the resulting flight from asset-backed commercial paper caused exposures to come back on to the balance sheets of banks that had sponsored such programs, uncertainty about some banks 'exposures raised their funding costs, most notably in the term interbank market, as evidenced by widening LIBOR spreads. Lacker Speech on Financial Stability
There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons.
Uncertainty darkens the future of radio and television.
The deadlock also reflected the general feeling of uncertainty on the international stage engendered by events in the Soviet Union during August.
Just minutes before there had been a buzz of uncertainty as people watched police officers cordoning off yet more streets in an area already divided every few yards by blue and white tape.
So he was compensating for the uncertainty factor by perseverating on the stressor with which he was at least already familiar - that stressor being work.
It takes the view that Brexit uncertainty will hit investment in capital equipment and in skills and training, hampering productivity growth. Times, Sunday Times
With even greater, if not absolute certainty, we know that man can never be in a position to detect life in other solar systems of galaxies.
These yummy mummies are consumed with frustration, boredom and uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
Another submitter - a large one from the South Island - raised the issue of the cost of significant investments, and the need for clarity and certainty about that.
These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
Thirdly, except for considering uncertainty of the coefficients of a linear optimization model, we also incorporate implementation error of the obtained solution into the model.
The word believe is a problematic one today, in part because it has gradually changed its meaning from being the language of certainty so deep that I could give my heart to it, to the language of uncertainty so shallow that only the "credulous" would rely on it. Child
Of course, I sent ashore for a doctor, and he was able to diagnose the cause of death with certainty.
The uncertainty and ignorance of things to come, makes the world new unto us by unexpected emergencies; whereby we pass not our days in the trite road of affairs affording no novity; for the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things. Christian Morals
Even that one glass of red-currant fool, though there was no champagne in it, had produced, together with the certainty that her opponent had overbidden his hand, a pleasant exhilaration in Miss Mapp; but yolk of egg, as everybody knew, was a strong stimulant. Miss Mapp
All I can say with certainty is that he is trying to live a purposeful life, for himself and his family. Times, Sunday Times
The only thing to do is to fling caution to the winds and make a decision,right or wrong;anything is better than uncertainty.
With his resistance to McCarthyism and quantum uncertainty, was Einstein disillusioned at the end?
If they allow too long a period to go by before making a claim the national court may properly conclude that the principle of finality or legal certainty requires it to refuse to disapply the limitation provisions.
The level of certainty is highest for bovine clones, followed in decreasing order of certainty, by porcine, caprine, and ovine clones.
For example, it requires considerable communicative skill to be able to attribute uncertainty to the current state of medical knowledge rather than to one's own ignorance.
It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
It is worthy of notice, as regards the use of English terms, that Newman reserves the term certitude for the state of mind, and employs the word certainty to describe the condition of the evidence of a proposition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Yet Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of its element of chance and uncertainty.
The "signing" is an interesting way of placing more certainty in CC0 content than was placed in (some) CC PD content. +0 = ?
The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster.
David was a Scottish hero, the world champion cyclist who looked to be a certainty for an Olympic gold medal.
But among feminist researchers and practitioners, these concerns with uncertainty have limited currency.
But unique of all other religous truth claims in history, this teaching offers the first apodictic certainty. High stakes for religion....
his victory is a certainty
Wanley, it is to be feared, lags far behind the times -- painfully so, when one knows for a certainty that the valley upon which it looks conceals treasures of coal, of ironstone -- blackband, to be technical -- and of fireclay. Demos
Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor.
This uncertainty has been reflected in the share prices of the UK's biggest retailers. Times, Sunday Times
It said the document must to'fully and unambiguously reflect the scope of uncertainty' over who is understood to be in charge after an indecisive outcome. Times, Sunday Times
Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.
Her confidence was merely a pose to hide her uncertainty.
Even now, as I write, so many hours after the unspeakable incident, my mind still reels in shell-shocked horror and uncertainty.
It gives people certainty and peace of mind going into their marriage. The Sun
External differences apparently so small, and which might elsewhere be deemed inadequate to the establishment of genera, become important in this remarkable family, from their being confirmed by the structure of the trophi, and the strong distinctions exhibited in their females in every instance that has yet presented itself to me, wherever I have had the certainty of specific identity in these heterogynous insects, from the direct observation of my friends in Australia. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Nevertheless, uncertainty remains about the optimal selection of patients for home treatment.
The common scenarios in general practice all involve weighing up probabilities and accepting varying degrees of uncertainty.
The only certainty is that central banks and other decision makers appear to be increasingly united in pursuing strategies that will devalue their currencies, however diverse those strategies might be. A Search for the Least Vulnerable Currencies
The certainty and reliability of the Word of God was one central plank of the Fellowship.
Not even Michael eased her mind to the same degree nor conveyed the same certainty of inviolable protection. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The rhythmic imprecision of the triplet in the melody of the synthesizer only adds an extra element of uncertainty to the passage.
What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal. Great Scots
The extent of a person's reservation price range is posited to be positively related to his or her level of performance- and preference-related uncertainty.
His sharp ears had picked up the uncertainty in her voice.
Within those areas covered by the rational basis part of the test there would be greater certainty.
'You're wrong,' she said with absolute certainty.
The certainty of one more day’s affection, which she gained by silence, outvalued the hope of a perpetuity combined with the risk of all. A Pair of Blue Eyes
Having conceded just 17 frames in five matches at this event so far, he is a certainty to climb into the top 40 in the world after this tournament.
This estimate is even on the high side because many exploration companies have left the country because of the inconsistency of government policy and lack of legal certainty.
Much of the uncertainty surrounds the dizzying number of ways of qualifying for a provisional ballot, a sort of emergency ballot that allows voters to cast a vote at the polls, then have their eligibility checked after the election.
For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home. A Channel of Peace
Yet what if you believe, to a moral certainty, that the confession is a fabrication and the defendant didn't do it?
Maybe it's the beribboned high waistlines, maybe it's the delicate petticoats or maybe it's those slightly ridiculous bonnets, but whatever the reason, behind-the-hand sniggers are a certainty.
In the early 1700s, French economist Cantillon expanded the definition to include those who quested for earnings where there was an element of uncertainty.
They have used something called entropy, which measures the uncertainty in a random variable. Times, Sunday Times
The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty.
This faith in the indubitable certainty of mathematical proofs was sadly shaken around 1900 by the discovery of the antinomies or paradoxes of set theory.
The whole difficulty lies in the acts of free agents being certain; yet certainty is required for foreknowledge as well as for foreordination. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
As to the "one to one perspective" it tells something about industry relevance, the divisibility of the target resources, management costs, synergies persistence and transaction uncertainty.
Introduce the problems of uncertainty in assembly or motion of tight tolerance, the importance of compliant motion, fine motion planning, and compliant motion planning.
Uncertainty about America's budget and stimulus spending still weighed. Times, Sunday Times
The double-edged nature of gas also induced uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
For a certainty it is valuable to reflect problems and deficiencies of maintenance material management work and enhance the maintenance material support capability.
Also, there is no absolute truth in Judaism and this lack of certainty is refreshing in a religious faith.
Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution.
Well, the judge explained that what they're looking for here is somewhere between absolute certainty and just a shadow of a doubt.
Pearson uses the concept of uncertainty to offer a matrix which directs attention to characteristics that might reduce the risks of innovation.

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