How To Use Certitude In A Sentence
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This certitude explains to this bigot why he has such a self-satisfied smirk in his photo.
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Grant us a sense of confidence and certitude that challenges all doubt and disappointment.
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Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference.
Camilla
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Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
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As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives.
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Wales - a country with incertitude carved into its genes - is beginning to find its confidence.
Archive 2008-09-01
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All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
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So it's very important to understand that he provided us at some very crucial moments with context and certitude, with things we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, but we knew we were right.
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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
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His very titles reflect bleakness, guilt, incertitude.
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They had hoped for scientific certitudes and now they are being told that science cannot give them this solace.
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Still, we are in danger of prematurely embracing certitudes and losing open-mindedness.
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This is also the first time I have publicly used the word certitude since hearing it for the first time a few days ago.
Jim Moret: An Attitude of Certitude
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Winterbottom himself seemed to be prepared for the sort of criticism the film would elicit in opting out of making such certitudes.
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Religious certitude, for many fundamentalists, is the portal to cognitive balance and emotional stability.
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The likelihood that this will frequently be true can not be mistaken for the certitude that it is always so.
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In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything -- her quietness, that calm certitude as if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal.
Chapter XII
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On peut affirmer avec un plus de certitude qui ne parle pas: une entité psychologique homogène.
SARAH KANE: LA PAROLE QUI TUE, LA PAROLE QUI AFFECTE
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I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
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But you were always more sympathetic to ambivalence than to certitude.
FAMILY PICTURES
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Amana (Trust): The Islamic healer is in the in front of of certitude as great as have been thus obliged to Allah that they say the correct avocation of care.
Islamic Healing A-Z A's
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The Global Wars and the major historical events have brought a new wave of incertitude regarding the form and direction of their polity.
Is Global Democracy Possible? -The Contemporary Crisis of Democracy
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In this instance, the publisher is not alone in its certitude.
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Despite the growth of science and its certitudes, there are things that defy a scientific explanation, she maintains.
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After so many months of incertitude, this comes as a huge relief to him.
Alberto Contador cautiously optimistic he can avoid appeal
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This sort of moral certitude is exactly what turns off many veteran teachers in Washington.
Crusader of the Classrooms
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But this administration's outward certitude amid undisclosed intelligence-community doubts was more selective, and thus more misleading, than it needed to be.
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I swear, I've come to suspect that truth is in inverse proportion to the certitude of the declaimer.
R.I.P.
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Process Entropy is a measurement for the incertitude degree of process.
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The title of the piece was Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta and it skillfully attacked the dictatorship with an arsenal of reason, facts and moral certitude.
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English eyes scour the English horizon for the certitudes of English corporatism, and what they see are multinationals who, to an unwelcome extent, dictate the pace and impose the qualitative standards of English life.
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That incertitude and the resulting decision of other insurers to drop their child-only plans, according to WellPoint spokeswoman Kristin Binns, "has created an unlevel competitive environment.
Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies
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Cultural relativism undermines the moral certitude of our principal enemy, Catholicism (aka "obscurantism")
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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But you were always more sympathetic to ambivalence than to certitude.
FAMILY PICTURES
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Both lack a set identity, living without a certitude of their place in relation to their surrounding society.
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Constitutional law is rife with clashing certitudes generated by too-clever theories purporting to illuminate the one valid approach to construing the Constitution.
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Laertes's certitude reminds me of one moment in which Hamlet tries to rouse himself to a similar passion.
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'You will like Rome,' he said, with absolute certitude.
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Même s'il confirme que le personnel de la base restera en place, le général Hillier affirme qu'il est lui aussi dans l'incertitude quant à son avenir.
Hillier on Goose Bay: uncertain
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They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above.
Why Would They Lie? | ATTACKERMAN
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God; and whoever doubts their certitude, the man who knows himself a son of God by faith, and has experience of forgiveness and guidance and answered prayer and hopes whose 'sweetness yieldeth proof that they were born for immortality,' _knows_ the things which others question and doubt.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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However much we may be cognizant of the vagaries and the incertitudes of its testimony, it continues to afford us a disconcerting awareness that the past is different from the present.
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Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes.
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It would be vital, as he knew, for the next few exchanges to be transcribed with unimpeachable certitude.
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C'est la partie du purgatoire où les anges même ne peuvent pénétrer qu'aux saints temps de l'année liturgique, pour consoler leurs anciens protégés; un lieu plein de gémissements inexprimables, plein de larmes brûlantes; un lieu que je devrais appeler un enfer, s'il n'y avait pas là il espérance; c'est-à-dire la certitude de n'avoir en aucun cas à y souffrir plus longtemps que jusqu'au jugement dernier.
Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire
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And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.
Chapter 1
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How timely, then, is the appearance of several important books that call these flawed and dangerous certitudes into question.
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Christian religion, make it extremely credible and knowable, but faith alone makes it believed and acknowledged, enamouring men with the beauty of its truth, and making them believe the truth of its beauty, by means of the sweetness faith pours into their wills, and the certitude which it gives to their understanding.
Treatise on the Love of God
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And over the years those increments of certitude had made me the perfect foreigner.
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This was how we perceived our situation, and the Gulf War turned our perception into certitude.
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The struggle and incertitude do not put out the light in those who are driven by their own passion for the arts.
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This was how we perceived our situation, and the Gulf War turned our perception into certitude.
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For the certitudes its people are now forced to rely upon are ancient - if partial - truths.
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But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense.
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All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude of expectancy.
Chapter 11
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Ally this certitude to an almost faultless ear, a sureness of touch, and his first three books are a remarkable achievement for a poet not yet 30.
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We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh.
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Legalities aside, the loss of any certitude that real communication has transpired represents a cost-deficient nightmare.
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Moreover, the increasing academicization of the avant-garde has led to the same kinds of unthinking acceptance and moralizing certitude that once bolstered salon and pompier painting.
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They are people for whom reality is probably less important than their ideology, and their moral certitudes.
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Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude.
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Our precious Cons like to beep and squeak with mighty gusts from their hindward breezers about the power and certitude of the free market, solution to all of life's troubles.
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This does not mean that we should reject the findings of those efforts outright; they are helpful to an extent, but they ultimately cannot achieve the level of certitude that historians of a more positivist age claimed for them.
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It is impossible to predict the outcome of the negotiations with any degree of certitude.
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It should grow in self confidence and regain its lost conviction and certitude in its own faith: a conviction which enabled the ancient Muslims to meet all temporal challenges.
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They were given with absolute certitude, a staccato recitation of poll numbers, grand strategy, and historical analogies.
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The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
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True, certitude of convictions can signify moral strength, but that's so rare.
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These people are on the air every night spouting certitudes about life as they see it and dramatically influencing public opinion.
Lou Dobbs, evil idiot
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The gallery director agrees that DNA's certitude in authentication provides the basis for a better risk-management equation for art insurance.
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When one sees the words ‘Government Superannuation Fund’ one has a sense of some certitude, some certainty, but there is none.
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People are looking for the clear answers, right and wrong, to give certitude in the time of great uncertainty, when no one knows what will happen next.
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Curran's contention that much moral knowledge is limited and contingent, Farley claims, sharply undercuts the certitude permeating many of the magisterium's official documents.
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But that did not increase my certitude that he was indeed the answer to my prayer for I was already, by the grace of Heaven, as certain as I could be.
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Whether we celebrate or bemoan the loss of the old certitudes, we need at least to be alert to what values may fill the space left by them.
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I hope in an era where sound bites pass for wisdom and where certitude is somehow a virtue that readers will reflect a little on the ambiguities of the human heart.
Patricia O'Brien discusses her novel Harriet & Isabella, about the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Même s'il confirme que le personnel de la base restera en place, le général Hillier affirme qu'il est lui aussi dans l'incertitude quant à son avenir.
Hillier on Goose Bay: uncertain
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists?
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I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
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Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
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I am grateful for the compliment," she said; and in those long gray eyes of hers were limned and coloured all the satisfaction, and self-certitude and answering complacency of power that constitute so large a part of the seductive mystery and mastery that is possessed by woman.
CHAPTER XIX
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The sledge-wielder pours out more strength and certitude and joy in every blow than do you in your whole sheaf of songs.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Widders," as she is never called to her face, combines the sartorial elan of the late President Theodore Roosevelt and the moral certitude of Joan of Arc. The voice is a quite remarkable instrument, not so much a larynx as a distorting loudhailer.
The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster
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I mean, but would I ever say with absolute, you know, 100% certitude that we're safe?
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For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him, — the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.
Chapter 12
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To see with ‘relentless accuracy,’ according to Moore, is not a matter of detachment and ‘the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude.’
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The stories are awful and fascinating, yet it recreates the utter human chaos with character economy, tact and absolute certitude.
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‘The moral certitude of the radicals was awesome,’ Field says.
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This is when the teller asked if the suspect was "serious," expressing her crime-fighting incertitude.
Bank Teller averts robbery, asking "Are you serious?"
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The two mistakes are opposed to one another by reason of the fact that they take opposite stands with regard to the certitude, immutability, and incorrigibility that does or does not belong to knowledge.
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The throat-rumble arose in the great room, and man nodded to man with indorsement and certitude.
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief.
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In his writing, this writer whom I had never met, Pico Iyer, unremittingly challenged my world and its certitudes.
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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Would our feeble eyes, therefore, become stronger -- would our narrow views of things be enlarged -- should we be better capacitated to understand his projects -- could we with more certitude divine his plans, enter into his designs -- would our exility of judgment be competent to measure his wisdom, to follow the eternal order he has established?
The System of Nature, Volume 2
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It is impossible to predict the outcome of the negotiations with any degree of certitude.
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In this sense, our certitude in understanding the sixteen is unlabored, although it derives from a line of reasoning.
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation
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While Pinter the playwright may extol existential ambiguity and incertitude, Pinter the activist and dissenter has no such anxiety.
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Curiously it could be said to be making a come back in post-modernist painters such as Tuysman & Richter, where it 'hovers' in anxiety & incertitude rather than the inevitability of the 'penny dropping'.
Stillness and Action, Part 2
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Two devastating world wars and 50 years of global conflict later, it's easy to laugh at the naïve certitude of Angell's thesis, but at the time such certitude was widely and deeply held.
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But I think - okay, I also hope - that Voegelin is right to suggest that, in the modern world, sincere faith reduces rather than increases the risk of excessive existential certitude.
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But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense.
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The analyst's narcissism may be such that it is better to rest easy in seductive certitude rather than tolerate ambiguities, uncertainties and the discomforting state of not-knowing!
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Since every decision that is made comes with a bit of incertitude, statistics guides one in making proper preferences.
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To have a ramshackle young woman from Hampstead patting her on the back as it were, in breezy certitude that quite soon she would improve, stirred her more deeply than anything had stirred her since her first discovery that Mr. Fisher was not what he seemed.
The Enchanted April
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But some analysts believe the commodity can only be booming for at least one more year and it is no longer possible to say with certitude the frequency and amplitude of cyclical movements in steel prices.
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The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies.
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Even Paulson says that this enormous bail out may not cure the problem, so we will be left in the same position of incertitude and fear we are today, but we would have spent nearly a trillion dollars.
Congress to the rescue! (Maybe)
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Both lack a set identity, living without a certitude of their place in relation to their surrounding society.
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My faith is a congeries of dogmatical certitudes, one of which is that the new liturgy is the triumph, yea the resurrection, of the Philistines. posted by John at 11: 07 AM
Leap Year -- Day
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Psychiatric classifications have an aura of scientific certitude about them that is not really justified.
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Women directors admit vulnerabilities, but sometimes their openness to suggestion is mistaken for incertitude.
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But as always, the Indian voter may surprise the cautious certitude of the psephologist and the less restrained TV anchor.
Security Challenges for New Government
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Denouncing persons skeptical about the shrill certitudes of those who say global warming poses an imminent threat to the planet, he says:
About: Blinded by Science
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The two certitudes of life are death and that Jimmy Buffett will never find that lost shaker of salt.
Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville
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Both lack a set identity, living without a certitude of their place in relation to their surrounding society.
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One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct.