Sentences with phrase «as near a certainty»

Accordingly, a number of bloggers and many in the mainstream financial press presently appear to view a U.S. - style housing crash in Canada as a near certainty.

There have been reports from a newspaper in Marseille that Nasri is on his way and even The Guardian have marked the Frenchman's move down as a near certainty.

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As a provincial election draws near, just who will represent the governing Progressive Conservative Party from the Lacombe - Ponoka riding is nowhere near a certainty.

It is a near certainty that the next president of the United States will nominate at least two and as many as three or four justices to the High Court, shaping it for the balance of our adult lives.

The veteran character actor is so riveting as the down - on - his - luck attorney that it seems a near - certainty he'll walk away with an Emmy for his performance.

There are a few near certainties such as Gary Oldman for Best Actor, Frances McDormand for Best Actress and Coco for Best Animated Film, but everything else is up for grabs.

Except that, given that the report explicitly celebrates teacher «residencies,» flags only models like the Boston Teacher Residency, talks explicitly of «instructional rounds,» and so forth, the near - certainty is that higher education and state education agencies which run with the NCATE agenda will do so with BTR as the model.

If you are able to come up with 35 % of the property's value to be put down up front, the likelihood that you will receive the best possible rate increases to near certainty as you're walking immediately into a low ration, high equity situation, which is therefore low - risk for the lender.

(It may also be enlightening to ponder that the legal system in the US is based upon «a reasonable doubt,» so Americans are literally trained to consider anything this side of near absolute certainty as reason to reject an argument.)

Consider this: it is possible that a giant flaming meteor may crash into the NYT building in the near future, but it is probably not wise to order your affairs as if that is a certainty.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

B. President Obama seems not to understand that as long as fossil fuels are allowed (to appear to the user) to be the cheapest reliable energy, they will continue to be the world's largest energy source and the likelihood of disastrous consequences for young people will grow to near certainty.

As a guy who has been around and around near every political debate, I can tell you with absolute certainty that every side lies.

Common - sense Proposition 1 There is a reasonable likelihood — many would say a near - certainty — based upon the case - evidence as judicially reviewed, that a jury will decide that Michael Mann's charges are proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

has near the certainty as stated and alarmists don't believe that's a valid opinion because we don't have enough letters in front of our names.

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

Of course, it also possible there may be still be other serious climatic changes in store for us, independent of human activity, as Ronald Wright has correctly pointed out, but for our species to have caused, by our hand, the near certainty that drastic changes will occur demonstrates monumetal recklessness and stupidity.

James Sinnamon said: Of course there can never be absolute certainty on the question of global warming until the remnants of humankind, 50 years from now, are huddled together near the North and South Poles as the rest of our planet cooks.

Of course there can never be absolute certainty on the question of global warming until the remnants of humankind, 50 years from now, are huddled together near the North and South Poles as the rest of our planet cooks.

The only thing that can be predicted with virtual certainty, is that when a complex system such as our biosphere has been tampered with on such an unprecedented scale as it has been in the last 200 years, there is a near certainty serious and detrimental changes will occur.

The report, known as AR5, finds with near certainty that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and that climate impacts are accelerating — including greater sea ice melt, sea level rise, and dangerous ocean and surface level warming.

My approach to lawyers as a commercial entity is based on my near - certainty that the legal market of the future will include many providers, of which lawyers will be just one.

So as you play, the «dice» get tossed and with near certainty you'll «discover» a world no one has visited before you.

A library of articles has value for showing your firm's capabilities, but a library will not draw visitors to your site with anywhere near as much certainty or power as a blog.

After just a few days of using M on my Nexus 6, I can say with certainty that the new app drawer and widgets screens — even though they may continue to be refined as we near official release — are so much better than they were before.