The slaves received the whip with more certainty and regularity than they received their food. |
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Rejecting the quest for absolute certainty, it takes a meliorist attitude that human action sometimes can improve the world. |
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So, like the pressing need in the US for some certainty in a lot of things, they tried to wrap it as tidily as possible. |
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Well, the judge explained that what they're looking for here is somewhere between absolute certainty and just a shadow of a doubt. |
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The one absolute certainty is that nobody south of Gretna gives a toss what any of these people think. |
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The role of certainty of paternity in determining the degree and nature of male investment in offspring is equivocal. |
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The common thread is ideological certainty untroubled by empirical evidence, intellectual curiosity, or open debate. |
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When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization. |
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However, the risk protection afforded by insurance also increases the producer's certainty equivalent. |
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For better or for worse, a chain of events has been set in motion by these two that cannot be predicted with any certainty. |
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Sheltering beneath upturned boats, they drank methylated spirits and smoked seaweed to escape the certainty that they were going to die. |
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We cannot know the mind of the creator with sufficient certainty to predict this with perfect accuracy. |
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The quest for learning about what's important turned into a quest for certainty. |
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Because of their non-marine depositional setting, the Wealden sediments are not biostratigraphically constrained with a high degree of certainty. |
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She wishes to have certainty as to the price to be paid and does not wish the price to be geared to a measurement of acreage. |
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Yet it is a racing certainty that if you bothered to examine what the main parties are offering two things would become clear. |
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Yet despite all of this counter-argument, it is a racing certainty we will get a 0.25 per cent increase in rates on Thursday. |
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His careless words mean that a prolonged battle between government and unions over public sector pay has become a racing certainty. |
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For anyone who reads this column and likes a bet I will give them a racing certainty. |
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This does not make a poor outcome for the whole of the financial year to end March 2005 a racing certainty. |
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Nevertheless such success can by no means be treated as a racing certainty. |
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The risk of injury to still developing limbs at this level is a racing certainty. |
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When you add it to the rest of the evidence that we obtained I think it makes it a racing certainty. |
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Their anticipation was dashed, however, as marker Sylvain Guilhem intercepted the move when a score seemed a certainty. |
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I can't say I left with complete certainty and understanding, but some of the fog had lifted. |
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It cannot be said with certainty that such political moves benefited the rank and file. |
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The play-offs seemed a certainty before Christmas, but a rapid turn around in fortune is needed if those dreams are to be realised. |
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Montgomerie, of course, is no certainty to play in the Ryder Cup, but if he fails to qualify, a wild card will surely be his. |
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Wary of ideas, thirsty for direct experience of God, people are drawn to the movement's certainty, its irrepressible spirit, its joy. |
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Any offer to cover cost overruns even before construction begins is a recipe for making cost overruns a certainty. |
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As the feature on this page explains, this idea is a runner, if not an odds-on certainty. |
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The teacher's certainty about his role, largely the result of alienation, asserts hierarchy. |
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He said it is essential that these rates are confirmed with the Commission at an early date to allow farmers to plan with certainty. |
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But in one who often contemplates the certainty of old age, the pride of youth will either vanish entirely or will be weakened. |
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This provides certainty for new investment in renewables, particularly wind power. |
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No one has yet been able to identify an Amorite pot or weapon with certainty. |
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The certainty equivalent represents the amount of money a producer would accept to avoid the risk present in a particular revenue scenario. |
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Nowadays a reasonable degree of certainty for third parties is not merely a laudable aim, it is a mandatory requirement of the law. |
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A leader who was once derided as a man of straw has acquired a new certainty, which derives in large measure from his religious beliefs. |
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Molecular data enable workers to determine relationships with greater certainty than using physical resemblances alone. |
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A crucial art of the political leader in a crisis is to mask his own fear with a calming projection to the public of certainty and resolution. |
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This compromise gives more certainty that more money will be left over for residents in the two areas. |
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Notes are annotated on levels of certainty with predictions and risks and possible causes for changes to numbers. |
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The one certainty is that the 38-year civil conflict is about to enter its bloodiest phase to date. |
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In light of antinomies like Russell's paradox, there was no certainty that the set theory was even consistent. |
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The self-knowledge that I could never live contentedly elsewhere than in Nova Scotia seemed to evolve to a point of rock-hard certainty. |
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On the contrary, the continuation of military armaments in their present extent will with certainty lead to new catastrophes. |
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The difference between the expected value and the certainty equivalent is the risk premium for the gamble. |
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And it's a wonderful thing to have that kind of peace and assurance and joy and certainty. |
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Being right then is not a matter of having some recognizable state of mind, a sense or feeling of certainty. |
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A pool shark can hit a ball with a cue and predict with relative certainty where a whole bunch of balls will go on the table. |
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One certainty is that you will not fill the void with personal jottings or reading matter. |
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And we know to a certainty that this is the regime that will stop at nothing to accomplish its irrational goals. |
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This would provide a terminus ante quem, but, again, we cannot date the essay on The Pythian Oracles with certainty. |
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Did you continue the search so persistently without any certainty of the greave being still in existence? |
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He criticized rather than praised the merits of powerful government, but he did so with unequivocal certainty. |
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The slowdown meant that the Bank was thought likely to cut rates anyway, and the financial ramifications of the last two weeks now makes that a racing certainty. |
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Meaning, we can now say with some certainty that Doris Kearns Goodwin banged Abraham Lincoln. |
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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. |
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If the certainty of the wisdom of uncertainty is itself uncertain, the force of the definition crumbles by logical standards. |
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Unless we have the certainty of punishment, as in other countries like America or even China, we will not improve, we will not be successful against graft and corruption. |
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We may never know with absolute certainty whether he is alive or dead. |
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I knew with certainty that this time, he was definitely not coming back. |
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It's true, heterosexual people have so much certainty about themselves. |
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When we won the Ryder Cup in 1985, it was an absolute racing certainty. |
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Often only some of the codes of an allograph to be recognized correspond to a sequence of codes from the dictionary, and the allograph is not recognized with certainty. |
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There was no official scorekeeper, but as usual, certain items were identified with certainty, some were the subject of learned speculation, and some brought laughter. |
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He knew, with a certainty, that his father would have been rejoicing. |
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The shares aren't a racing certainty, but they still look good value. |
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There remains little doubt but that, when shatter cones can be identified with certainty, they are a valid and definitive criterion for an astrobleme. |
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There are a number of elements of a stabilization strategy without which instability becomes a virtual certainty. |
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A settlement before long is widely viewed as a racing certainty. |
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Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction. |
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The outcome of any public discussion can never be known with certainty, but chances are that it will amplify stories that imply risks of higher oil prices. |
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He traces the history of ideas with skill and care, and he avoids the smug certainty of many contemporary science writers. |
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There he again found the same bodies in the blood of people suffering from marsh fever, and his hope of having found the malarial parasite became a certainty. |
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Loeb, a yoga-practicing surfer and fitness nut, possesses the kind of certainty that eludes many of his elders. |
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But inside the office of the Secretary General, no such certainty exists. |
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The North-East remains a racing certainty to get a referendum on whether to create a directly-elected assembly to oversee its economy and housing needs. |
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Further studies must be conducted to say with certainty whether or not the Alabama shad is a heterochronal spawner. |
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Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent. |
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Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations. |
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In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable. |
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Because of the limited number of sources, there is no certainty about the date, location, or details of the fighting. |
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Nor are the properties of absolute certainty, rational irrevisability, or infallibility attributed to a priori claims. |
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There can be no certainty, however, that the martyr referred to is actually Saint Alban. |
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Among Hume's conclusions regarding the problem of induction is that there is no certainty that the future will resemble the past. |
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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. |
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The criteria are divided into the categories of intensity, duration, certainty, proximity, productiveness, purity, and extent. |
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Carolyn Williams contends that a certainty in the male role during the 18th century in Britain affected Pope and his writing. |
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Predictive models in the banking industry are developed to bring certainty across the risk scores for individual customers. |
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The Manx triskelion, which dates with certainty to the late 13th century, is of uncertain origin. |
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That ideal required the creation of certainty of law, through the recording of law and through its uniformity. |
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Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief. |
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined religious certainty and the idea of human uniqueness. |
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It is not the goal to bless theories with claims of certainty or justification, but to eliminate errors in them. |
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Hamacher claims that the foundational certainty of Descartes' philosophy began to shake following the Lisbon earthquake. |
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Different classifications of reserves are related to their degree of certainty. |
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The dictator's last words are not known with certainty, and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike. |
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Females usually cannot be identified even to subspecies group with certainty. |
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These can, with some certainty, be dated to the Migration Period, although it is not unlikely that they have been in use since the Stone Age. |
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Despite the importance of his books many questions remain regarding his life, hampering efforts to construct a biography with any certainty. |
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A Pingelapese speaker would choose to use e when they have a high degree of certainty in what they are saying and ae when they are less certain. |
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Culbert's detailed sampling data, or any other census data, it is impossible to state the number of speakers with certainty. |
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For this reason, estimates of the incidence of abortion must be made without determining certainty related to standard error. |
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It is clear that Lord Steyn intended that a virtual or moral certainty test should necessarily lead to a finding of intention. |
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The major distinction between legal determinations and scientific assertions lies in the concept of certainty. |
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Legal precedents in torts and contracts were borrowed from England, and certain legal areas were codified in order to assure legal certainty. |
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It may not be possible to resolve the question with absolute certainty unless documents now unknown should surface in the future. |
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Again, I repeat that all of the above-cited work is based on averages with no guarantee of certainty. |
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He was the next big thing, a wonderkid and sure-fire certainty to make it to the top. |
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The great danger to the economy is no longer uncertainty, but certainty. |
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They concluded that high attributional confidence or certainty is a product of ingroup relationships in highcontext cultures. |
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The result should be the same when, as here, the life span of the core deposits has been estimated with reasonable certainty. |
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Contamination must be proven with certainty not supposition. |
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Revenue is to be realized when it is earned and when reasonable certainty as to the collectability of payment from the customer exists. |
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Although Freud combs through various historical sources on Amarna, his certainty in the validity of his narrative mirrors that of biblical authority. |
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I mean, what would a couple of translesbian feminist theorists like us know about the true delights of the certainty and expression of our womanhood? |
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An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. |
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Best of all, it filled up the entire map of Scotland with descriptions and the names of peoples, the part of Britain about which the least was known with any certainty. |
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But for a certainty, the 6 foot 4 inch Lincoln, in frock coat and top hat, stood peering through field glasses from behind a parapet at the onrushing rebels. |
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Because the wreck can usually be dated with some degree of certainty, its contents provides a clear snapshot of production at the moment the vessel went down. |
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Some research supports this association with one study finding no patrilineal society with low paternity confidence and no matrilineal society with high paternal certainty. |
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Another point which acted as a check against consuls was the certainty that after the end of their term they would be called to account for their actions while in office. |
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The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. |
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The etymological origin of the name Cherusci is not known with certainty. |
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There is no certainty concerning their origin, but it is clear that they vehemently guarded the secrets of their order and held sway over the people of Gaul. |
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The negotiations have now been pending for no less than four months, and they have not yet reached a stage where the final issue can with certainty be predicted. |
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There is no certainty concerning the origin of the druids, but it is clear that they vehemently guarded the secrets of their order and held sway over the people of Gaul. |
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We can't be certain that Evonium actually existed, so we can't properly identify the Stone's western home, or say with any certainty that Irvine is most definitely Evonium. |
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Host cities continue to compete ardently for the right to host the Games, even though there is no certainty that they will earn back their investments. |
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Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. |
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Additionally, the complex textual history of the Annales Cambriae precludes any certainty that the Arthurian annals were added to it even that early. |
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Of course, there is no certainty today as to the original appearance of the circle, or how much it may have changed in the preceding millennia, prior to Stukeley's visit. |
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Harrison also judges with the confidence born of certainty that, in all probability, throughout the world during the coming years, there will be an increase in stigmatists. |
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It is impossible to establish with any certainty the exact number of inhabitants in England at the eve of the Black Death, and estimates range from 3 to 7 million. |
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But, Wallace observed, information is not synonymous with meaning, and the meaning of a canon's informationlessness is the certainty of its contents. |
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Historian Clyde Binfield says their fervent Methodist faith strengthened their commitment to economic independence, spiritual certainty and civic responsibility. |
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It ensures certainty and consistency in the application of law. |
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The only member of the royal family who can be said with any certainty to have died from the Black Death was in France at the time of her infection. |
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The agreement also addresses the concern for security of supply and provides more certainty for the conditions of the remaining lignite business in Lusatia. |
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The unquestioning certainty with which most people connect children's literature with asexuality becomes obvious on occasions when specific texts challenge the connection. |
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