How To Use Uncertainty In A Sentence

The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty.
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.
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.

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!
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The uncertainty is unbearable!
The early 1990s was a time of great economic and political uncertainty in Russia.
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
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.
They take advantage of people's dislike of uncertainty by providing insurance services.
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.
There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
He said a three-year deal would also allow uncertainty over the upgrade of the East Coast to be cleared up.
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
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.
The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
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.
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
These yummy mummies are consumed with frustration, boredom and uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
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?
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.
Yet Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of its element of chance and uncertainty.
The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster.
But among feminist researchers and practitioners, these concerns with uncertainty have limited currency.
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.
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 rhythmic imprecision of the triplet in the melody of the synthesizer only adds an extra element of uncertainty to the passage.
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.
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
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.
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
Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution.
Pearson uses the concept of uncertainty to offer a matrix which directs attention to characteristics that might reduce the risks of innovation.
The uncertainty was adversely affecting the disposal of personal injury litigation.
Where uncertainty or dispute exists and it is necessary for a some factual determination to be made in order to comply with the brief, only tentative or provisional views will be expressed.
It has a kind of pre-meditated tentativeness; a deliberate uncertainty.
This uncertainty was reflected in unprecedented levels of argument within the government, conducted in the full glare of public attention.
Yet when the new racecourse opened to more gasps of horror than delight, the future of this regal place was thrown into uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
The viewers are not fools, they pick up on doubt and uncertainty on screen and hit the remote accordingly.
Gold also remains underpinned by concerns about longer-term inflation, as well as some uncertainty about whether the equity market possibly "overshot" during the rally in recent months, Mr. Meger said. Gold Prices Settle at $1,006
But other factors contribute as well. Hankie says amid uncertainty and volatility in global stock markets, many investors have pulled pored money in commodities, such as oil. T.
I was now much happier because it seemed our period of uncertainty was about to end. Broken Lives
Social dislocation generated not only uncertainty, but a large and powerful black market.
However, continuing financial uncertainty meant that privatisation by means of a share issue to the public was out of the question.
As a hurricane approaches land, they lay out a pretty wide swath of possibilities which they call the cone of uncertainty. Joseph B. Treaster: No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast
her quickly varied answers indicated uncertainty
He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters. How the End Begins
After another blast of the wretched conditions that have blighted this season's major championships, a motley crew of contenders have lined up at Hazeltine to exploit the uncertainty.
Although Lower Cambrian stratigraphy remains in a state of some uncertainty, therefore, it is possible at present to present a provisional view of the sequence of events in at least some areas of the world.
Behind those doors lay fear, uncertainty, anger and bewilderment. Times, Sunday Times
What I think we have here, at the heart of slipstream, is a folding through of the strange and the mundane, a radical interpenetration (far more radical than that of intrusion fantasy), one that leads to the deep instability and uncertainty of an infused realm, offered as an estranged postmodern view of the world -- infusion as confusion. Archive 2008-08-01
The conventional approach to management based on analytical problem solving can no longer cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict.
How, then, to master the fear and uncertainty that, so painfully learnt, can never be unlearnt? Times, Sunday Times
Of course, there is uncertainty, people feel unnerved. Times, Sunday Times
The doctors must explain the uncertainty of the outcome when seeking permission to include some one in the study.
Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
Ironically, though, our discussion of this ultraprecise theory needs to start with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
The benefit of the time assistance is dependent in a complicated way on its uncertainty.
He said his lines with snaky smoothness, and I stumbled over mine with angry uncertainty.
We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations.
The word pounded in his chest like fierce drumbeats, and I believe he heard me listening that closely, because suddenly, as his mouth spoke on, his eyes snapped around to mine and, like the sound of a gunshot, the pounding ceased, to be replaced by a feeling of uncertainty. Good Fortune
It was imbued with a sense of uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
The uncertainty principle also predicts that there will be similar virtual pairs of matter particles, such as electrons or quarks.
You just don't know," Trotter says. "There's so much uncertainty, and I know for a person like me, it really takes a toll.
To estimate measurement uncertainty, the correlation problems are always not analyzed precisely, or ignored subjectively completely.
I feel a bit of uncertainty in the past few weeks and I think that the banking system is stable.
In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
If there is any uncertainty about that, a pelvic exam or sonogram may be done.
The heightened uncertainty encouraged investors to seek a safe haven in the dollar. Times, Sunday Times
Her father, yelling from the bleachers, only deepened her uncertainty.
The country was on the brink of war; uncertainty permeated every aspect of daily life.
The optimistic view would be that as the clouds of uncertainty lift, so will investment. Times, Sunday Times
Emmott claims to be unbothered by the uncertainty.
European investors believe the company is priced too high considering this uncertainty.
If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
The audience consumes these shows in much the same way as the live telecast of a sporting event because uncertainty is a key part of the viewing experience.
There's nowt worse than this sort of uncertainty hanging over people's jobs," he said, using the Northern English word "nowt" for nothing. Brown's Critics
This uncertainty created a situation where some couples had spent time together, spoken of marriage, and perhaps consummated the relationship sexually, only to find that their parents refused to allow the match.
There was uncertainty in his voice, though, and later Theresa hearkened to this.
This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantum mechanics.
The difficulty facing the computing industry is that technological innovation is necessarily about engaging with uncertainty.
Any flicker of uncertainty about riding such a young thoroughbred vanished.
This sector could be one of the few to see an upside from the current economic uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
Neptune in your values chart sees that uncertainty in love will be replaced by happier times. The Sun
In addition, there is some uncertainty about how to calculate discounted future income for the representative household.
As the monsoons fade and the dry seasons take over, this year particularly there is widespread fear and uncertainty about the future.
Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home. Times, Sunday Times
In the standard model investors are concerned exclusively with the amount and uncertainty of their future wealth. Principles of Corporate Finance
Incidentally, there seems to be some uncertainty as to what this area of grammar (where verbs are followed by other, non-finite, verbs) is called. G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
Most of the agreements and other documents were backdated and there is uncertainty with respect to the actual dates on which - and the order in which - some of them were executed.
Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata.
Highland Council convener David Green has already written to Scottish Secretary Helen Liddell asking her to help ‘end the uncertainty which has hung over our lifeline link for too long now’.
If the policy was transparent and readily comprehensible, so the argument ran, then this would reduce uncertainty about future inflation. Times, Sunday Times
A magnificent feature of submarine battle damage is of uncertainty and its association.
Perception is biased towards recognition and each successful achievement reduces uncertainty.
The party mood will inevitably be tempered by the lingering uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
Another area of uncertainty is the extent to which these drugs are already being used in the workplace. Times, Sunday Times
Other authorities have held back before embarking on such highly desirable projects because of that uncertainty in the law.
Certainly, there are a couple of England players who may be eyeing that announcement with some uncertainty.
He said that all farmers are going through a nightmare of falling incomes and deep uncertainty about their futures.
There was a tremor in her voice, as if her uncertainty had turned into a bit of fear.
‘I don't know,’ I answered truthfully, and the uncertainty changed to confusion.
The non-probabilistic reliability index is adopted to evaluate safety of structures and taken as a design constraint so that the optimum design can resist a given level of uncertainty.
The European Union was more frank, when it withdrew its expatriate staff last week because of what it described as the ‘general tension and uncertainty’ in the country.
When uncertainty was from the liquidation value, debt was uncorrelated with pricing decision-making.
These pressures both reflect and contribute to an uncertainty about the role of teacher education within higher education.
There are eight long rays emanating from the head; but without a text, uncertainty remains as to their precise identification.
They cited uncertainty about the discredited allowance system for stopping their claims. Times, Sunday Times
This research reflects the uncertainty that exists over which age groups could benefit from taking regular aspirin and who might suffer serious side effects. Times, Sunday Times
This week's theme is songs that articulate uncertainty, whether at a macro level (a world in tumult) or a micro one (a relationship breaking down). Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty
GONZALES: Napier says it makes no sense to allow gay marriages to proceed next week, given the uncertainty over their long-term legality, especially since the appeals court could reverse Judge Walker, says Napier. Opponents Try To Block Calif. Same-Sex Marriage
They survived, but Todd has been forced to work against a backdrop of continuing financial uncertainty.
We live in an era of religious uncertainty.
There is some uncertainty regarding the legality of converting conventional headlamps to xenon ones. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, the sensitivity analysis and the Break-Even point analysis are used in the uncertainty and the risk analysis of YLB high purity Maltitol project.
Despite police alerting people on the new rule, uncertainty loomed large on city roads till afternoon.

How To Use Uncertainty In A Sentence

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