How To Use Uncertain In A Sentence

When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
It is now widely recognised that there are uncertainties in determining both R and D. Uncertainties in D (loads/demand) are due to the fact that they may vary depending on location and time (eg. there are no snow loads in summer, change of use). 2009 January - Telic Thoughts
Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in this release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in Somaxon's business, including, without limitation, Somaxon's interpretation of its communications and interactions with the FDA relating to the requirements for approval of the NDA for Silenor, and the FDA's agreement with such interpretation; Somaxon's interpretation of the results of the clinical trials for Silenor, the timing of the interpretation of such results and the FDA's agreement with such interpretation; the potential for Somaxon to make a resubmission to the Silenor NDA; the potential for Silenor to receive regulatory approval for one or more indications on a timely basis or at all; the potential for the FDA to impose non-clinical, clinical or other requirements to be completed before or after regulatory approval of Silenor; Somaxon's ability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA that potential NDA approval of Silenor is appropriate prior to the completion of standard, long-term carcinogenicity studies, given the context of completed trials and pending studies; the timing and results of non-clinical studies for Silenor, and the FDA's agreement with Somaxon's interpretation of such results; Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed

The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
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.
This is not a full-scale spending review because of uncertainties about the medium-term economic outlook. Times, Sunday Times
The Robin Hood pub has been saved from demolition but its future as a watering hole looks uncertain.
Spain dominated possession in the opening minutes and looked to have the measure of an uncertain Dutch backline. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
Professional rugby is a hard way to earn a crust - and an uncertain one.
One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
However, the future still looks uncertain as he has no money for higher education.
Questions involving the environment are particularly prone to uncertainty.
Life is more uncertain, so the task of launching an adolescent into the world has become more complicated.
For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home. A Channel of Peace
While the difficulty of this work makes specialization in agency organization most desirable, in this complex and uncertain world we learn more by being uncertain. Taking Child Abuse Seriously: Contemporary issues in child protection theory and practice
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!
All credit to the winner, however, whose form with Goldikova last time out was franked in no uncertain terms yesterday. Talking Horses special: Royal Ascot, day two live!
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
The future of this business and the fate of its 240 employees remain uncertain.
The result of any fruitful worldview is a firm, self-confident life order that is perceived as necessary, as a reality, about which there is nothing uncertain or disputable.
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
Equally uncertain is the amount of recoverable oil and gas.
They also warn that some leading hospitals may face an uncertain future if they lose patients to outside bidders.
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.
During this uncertain time, I have been extremely impressed by the continued commitment of the Agency's staff.
There remain on the balance sheet assets with uncertain value and limited relevance to the UK economy. Times, Sunday Times
She shook her head uncertainly and drank some of the Coca-Cola which seemed to be on the table in front of her. LAST SHOT
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
Place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"), the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 14: 2, 9), how long is uncertain. Easton's Bible Dictionary
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.
The solution to Quebec's uncertain status is not more concessions, Canada has made quite enough of those, but an enhanced level of Canadian political leadership and governance. Post-Election Prospects in Canada
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.
Despite the various uncertainties surrounding it, it would be unwise to rule out this possibility.
How the high court will interpret the law is uncertain. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
Result: Uncertainty in each ponderance were analyzed and put forward combined standard uncertainty resides of the method.
There were lots of times when people were very uncertain about the situation there.
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.
But despite all the uncertainty and bustle it seems, admittedly to an outsider, that the older generation is coping admirably.
The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react.
He has fought back from a serious knee injury and an uncertain future at Chelsea to find renewed confidence with England. The Sun
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
Everything, Dale," the name clung uncertainly upon the speaker's lips; Joyce of the North Woods
Lefors, founded in 1900 as the Gray County seat, long has faced an uncertain future.
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.
How these systems may respond to the rapid and major global warming predicted over the coming century is uncertain but largely dependent on whether coral-algal symbioses can adjust to decadal rather than millennial rates of climate change.
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.
Progressive indexation is not well designed to address future uncertainties. Progressive Dementia
First, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will enhance the efficiency of the price mechanism as a resource allocator.
There are far too many uncertainties to put a figure on the amount of land available. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
However, he played with some uncertainty and tentativeness, and no one is sure just how durable he will be.
The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans. Human/Non-Human Chimeras
Think deeply before you give up your comfortable life for the uncertainty of youthful life and love. The Sun
While it's uncertain whether the protest and subsequent meeting will prevent cuts, the way the governor's staff handled the whole affair is instructive: I'm told that technically they could have been arrested for blocking the way.
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
The high and uncertain cost of carriage by pack train encouraged demands for the introduction of speedier and more flexible means of transport.
Peak confidence in this stock has long past and the future remains uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
Questioned as to the eating of an uncertain number of buns just before lunch, the child averred, "I took them just to appetize my hunger. The Children
Animals need to attend to and learn about a stimulus only when its implications for the future are uncertain.
The uncertainty is unbearable!
By this substitution of a sure job for a possible masterpiece, military science made a deliberate sacrifice of capacity in order to reduce the uncertain element, the bionomic (read biological) factor.
The early 1990s was a time of great economic and political uncertainty in Russia.
Cumulative Density Function By definition, an uncertain quantity is one whose value can lie anywhere along a specified range.
If I have been uncertain about something on the car, they have checked it and made no charge if there was no work required. Times, Sunday Times
Cost estimates are notoriously uncertain in this business.
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
The future of the oil services industry remains uncertain and any recovery is likely to be gradual. Times, Sunday Times
They depend on assumptions which have been made and on uncertain future events.
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
South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment). Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians
The uncertainty concerning the proper scope of IP rights is magnified by the onrush of technology.
The difficulty about highlighting all these uncertainties is that it makes the rest of us feel uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
The economic climate remains uncertain.
The origin of the term is uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
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.
had been her battle cry, while she stated with no uncertain emphasis that as the paternal grandmother she had the greater claim. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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.
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
However, they said that prices for the yellow metal could remain volatile in the near term following a recent sharp rally as the outlook of the global economy remains uncertain.
Oops, Business minister Baroness Vadera seems to have dropped a clanger - the BBC are reporting that "Baroness Vadera was asked when the UK could expect to see some" green shoots "and replied:" It's a very uncertain world right now globally ... "a few green shoots"
Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers.
They take advantage of people's dislike of uncertainty by providing insurance services.
All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Southern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted half-yearly results yesterday that have implications far beyond the pockets of its investors, or even the 31,000 residents of its 750 care homes, and the staff who work in them, for whom the future is alarmingly uncertain. Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
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.
The uncertainties associated with large federal budget deficits warn against exclusive focus on the total spending done by government.
It is a happy but open ending, as the young couple, like most others, face an uncertain future.
Benevolent autocracy is an uncertain foundation for legitimate and sustainable national governance.
There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
They felt cut off from their history and uncertain of their future. Christianity Today
The uncertainties over the timing of any asset realisations have led the liquidators to warn that thousands of policyholders may have to wait a full year before settlement of their claims.
Such uncertainties may remain unresolved for several years.
He said a three-year deal would also allow uncertainty over the upgrade of the East Coast to be cleared up.
However they were uncertain as to whether it was the address of one of the suspects or a red herring.
Standards for noncarcinogenic chemicals, for instance, are defined by the maximum dose that causes no harm to animals in a toxicity study, divided by numerical factors to reflect data uncertainties. Toxicity testing- new dimensions
Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
The mobile operators are also treading uncertain ground where business users are concerned.
Portraits in miniature occupy an uncertain place in art historical studies.
Issues like nuclear power to help secure future energy needs in an uncertain world. The Sun
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.
The position of bats in the eutherian tree is uncertain.
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
Torn between the aspect of keeping his lousy grade and keeping up with snot-nosed kindergarteners, he sat in the lounge and rolled his papers between his hands uncertainly.
Whether further repayments will follow remains uncertain as the bank attempts to recover illiquid assets. Times, Sunday Times
What, then, we have to beware of, is not being refuted, but seeming to be, because of course the asking of amphibolies and of questions that turn upon ambiguity, and all the other tricks of that kind, conceal even a genuine refutation, and make it uncertain who is refuted and who is not. On Sophistical Refutations
Internal uncertainty and external scrutiny are constant companions. Times, Sunday Times
Cummins notes that humans are particularly good at deontic reasoning, that is reasoning about obligations and rights, because our minds have adapted to negotiate the uncertainties of dominance hierarchy.
Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes.
She took a few uncertain steps forward.
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.
As we consider the dream of Jacob we find a man who stood alone and facing an uncertain future.
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.
Yes, there are a number of uncertainties — Will contingent obligations (like guaranty claims, or liabilities on asserted but as yet unliquidated lawsuit claims) become due? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greek Bailout and Liquidity Risk
Feeling uncertain, I asked Vidal if I could get away with such a scene.
The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
Experts warn that the outlook for gilt yields is uncertain, though they are expected to remain low. Times, Sunday Times
The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
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.
Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain.
She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
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.
I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
For them, the risks of dieting far outweigh the benefits, which are uncertain in any case.
His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion. The Tragic Muse
In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
What is uncertain is whether he can garner sufficient support in rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
The future of another redundant church is also uncertain.
No similar red mud catastrophe was seen before: that is why any kind of forecast about the short and the long term environmental impacts are uncertain.
Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity, searching and tinkering.
The foreign policy wonk was either bored or uncertain whether Lieberman knew what he was talking about.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
Commercial house price is influenced by many kinds of factors, which are both macro and micro, and both uncertain and determinacy.
The product of their uncertainties is guaranteed to be at least h-bar. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
It was the uncertainty that was so infuriating, not knowing where she was.
The Customs officer, policeman, and magistrate began to nod, at first uncertain, reluctant, then with growing accord.
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.
He considers that "at an uncertain period during the occupancy of the Lacies, the first principle of population" (in these forests) commenced; it was found that these wilds, bleak and barren as they were, might be occupied to some advantage in breeding young and depasturing lean Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
Using comparison theorem and some properties of the matrix norm and the matrix measure, the paper provides several stability conditions for single and symmetric composite uncertain delay systems.
This theoretical uncertainty was fully supported by the experience of ancient and medieval technology.
A spokeswoman for the company said the future of the store was uncertain at the moment even though planning consent had already been given for it.
Uncertain take rates also make it harder for overbuilders to achieve desired customer penetration rates.
Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
The Closed-loop Supply Chain (CLSC) which was composed of one manufacturer and two retailers with product remanufacturing under uncertain demand was constructed.
Told in alternating narratives (with a helpful opening guide to how many different names both women are known by), Bunny ("Faith") Crumpacker tells the story of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity and the near-numb yet single-minded decision to give up her baby. Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times
The majority of jawbone intra-osseous lipomas are found in adults, and of uncertain origin and etiology but are usually associated with molar teeth.
Without tracing the history of the notion of rights, or exploring their uncertain ontology, let me simply note here that the current concept arises from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Archive 2009-01-01
The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
Uncertainties in history, archeology, biogeography, anthropology and biosystematics obscure the dates and places of the first domestication of cultivated crops.
Its uncertain start has only confirmed Scottish pessimism about the possibility of change.
But the timing and pace of recovery in Las Vegas is still uncertain and even more uncertain is the company ' s big exposure to Atlantic City, which is struggling. Harrah
There's no cause to be "disconcerted" by this, and neither is there any reason to obscure the real uncertainties and open questions that scientists are working on. RealClimate
Given the uncertainty over Leigh's future I was left with little other choice.
Its plan would have uncertain benefits and would not be policed. Times, Sunday Times
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.
In Pausanias's time the forum was certainly to the south and below Temple Hill, but the location of the agora of Greek Corinth is uncertain.
The police are still uncertain of the casualty's identity.
He wanted the manslaughter charge dropped and says the case is full of uncertainty.
In contrast the precise juridical basis for third party rights under the Convention remains uncertain.
Mature plants with uncertain identity were preserved by pressing to allow repeated examination by us and others for final identification.
I look forward to her future with uncertainty, I look to her past with a twinge of nostalgia.
After that everything took on a kind of red hallucinatory nimbus and he became uncertain of events for a while. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
The uncertain nature of the economic impact of the Second World War is easily demonstrated.
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.
The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation! The Dop Doctor
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.
They are uncertain about what to do next.
he paused uncertainly
Unfortunately their specific status remains uncertain as not enough data is known – while populations might be continuous with B. celebensis and hence referable to that species, a skull from near Kulawi in central Sulawesi differs from other babirusas in being particularly small, in having proportionally long lower premolars, and in various cranial proportions. Archive 2006-08-01
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.
I told him in no uncertain terms what I thought of his behaviour.
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
Aiden watched us both warily, uncertain as to why we were grinning crazily at each other.
The House panel's resolution, approved on a 23-22 vote, faces an uncertain future in Congress. But it nonetheless could damage U.

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