Sentences with phrase «as the certainties of»

In it, the projection of compassionate conservatism, or appeals to the grandchildren of Essex Man, or debates about the nature and extent of modernisation, will be useless - as antique as the certainties of Edwardian England must have seemed in the depression - wracked 1930s.

The associations of night and death also relate to Glyver's metaphorical blindness: he is convinced that he sees things as they really are; in fact, he is blind to their real meaning, enveloped as he is in misperception and misapprehension, just as the certainties of day, and of life itself, are enveloped and obscured by the shadows of night and death.

But even as the certainty of the models improved, Exxon focused instead on their uncertainty in its campaign to delay climate action.

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And judging from the consumers who have shared their stories with Consumer Reports, that certainty is in short supply as the fate of the ACA is decided.

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 is no certainty that any minority investment or strategic partnership will be agreed, or as to any terms, timing, or form of any such investment or partnership,» it said.

«As the most spectrum - constrained operator, this sale was more crucial to O2 than any of its rivals and the result gives it the certainty to continue its mobile - centric strategy in the UK market.

While it will be merely the exception that proves his rule — namely, that there is no such thing as 100 % certainty in the science of probability — his (mainly Republican) haters will jump on this as evidence he's a huckster and a fraud.

While there is no certainty that CBS and Viacom will agree to a merger, Moonves is seeking to capitalize on his 10 - year track record at the helm of CBS to gain as much influence as possible over the combined company, the people said on Monday.

As an entrepreneur, you make sacrifices because of the certainty of your success.

«We can not say with certainty that the strategic vision of the company will not change as the new management team is put into place.

Swedish - American cyber security firm Recorded Future said they have «a high degree of certainty» that the arrested Belarussian is «Ar3s», a prominent hacker in the Russian speaking cybercrime underground since 2004, who the firm has identified as the creator of the Andromeda botnet, among other hacking tools.

By reinvesting dividends, interest income, and capital gains for an entire working career of 40 + years, it would be a virtual certainty, or as much as such a thing is possible in a non-certain world, that the portfolio owner would retire with millions of dollars in assets due to the power of compounding.

Our resource estimations include estimates of hydrocarbon quantities for (i) new areas for which we do not have sufficient information to date to classify as proved, probable or even possible reserves, (ii) other areas to take into account the low level of certainty of recovery of the resources and (iii) uneconomic proved, probable or possible reserves.

Currently, there's no real certainty as to how big or how much of a disrupter Ripple can become in regard to the status quo.

Equity investment is usually required to fund the startup losses of a business as there is no track record of or any certainty that business will generate cash flow to fund debt and interest payments.

As certainty grows about what the future of NAFTA looks like, I think we'll see that general lift.

George Osborne promised the bonds would provide «certainty and comfort» for over-65s, but the certainty turned out to be short - lived as, from the end of this month, the interest paid almost halves

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Critics say a lack of certainty around coin valuations undermine the growth of digital currencies as viable methods of payment.

As a former junk market professional specializing in special situations like this, I can say with certainty that the Wall Street Journal's estimate of losses will end up being on the low side.

Gilts and credits may benefit as investors look for more certainty in their portfolio given the uncertainty in other areas of the financial market.

Your return will be much larger over the long term so the lack of advanced skill here will ultimately not be a big factor as long as you can trade it with a good degree of certainty.

When I first started investing, I clung on to rules of thumb as beacons of certainty that I could navigate by.

«As far as insuring that the toxic waste shards were securely generated and then disposed of properly, which was the crux of the ceremony, I can say with certainty that happened on our end.&raquAs far as insuring that the toxic waste shards were securely generated and then disposed of properly, which was the crux of the ceremony, I can say with certainty that happened on our end.&raquas insuring that the toxic waste shards were securely generated and then disposed of properly, which was the crux of the ceremony, I can say with certainty that happened on our end.»

As deep value contrarians, we aren't able to have absolute certainty, but we can put probability on our side along with the laws of supply and demand.

While the probability of a 25 bp hike in June remained a virtual certainty, the probabilities of additional hikes September and December dropped as follows:

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As noted by Tony Nitti at Forbes, the certainty of knowing the limits on these accelerated depreciation benefits in the future allows businesses to «finally act with some certainty over the coming years about the availability of a wide range of tax benefits.»

So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.

That said, Atheism has become a new religion in it's own right, stating with as much certainty as people of «faith», THERE IS NO GOD.

Interestingly enough, as I have learned to let go of that need for absolute certainty, I have become more certain than ever of what really matters.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

By way of deductive reasoning, we can state that there is no god with the same degree of certainty as with anything else we believe that doesn't exist, i.e. Santa Claus.

Any true athiest wouldn't waste their «free lunch» lives (as Stephen Hawkings teaches) taking hours of their lives to argue about something they profess to know with all certainty doesn't exist.

Since, too, they have no certainty of the doctrines they profess, they do but feel they ought to believe them, and they try to believe them, and they nurse the offspring of their reason, as a sickly child, bringing it out of doors only on fine days....

Hamann critiqued this as a pathetic, prideful parody of God's fiat in creation: «For what is the highly touted reason with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence?

We could expect, however, a gradual narrowing of gaps between different accounts and interpretations, a movement from uncertainty toward certainty, as historians refine their critiques within a common heuristic.

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

The quest for foundationalist certainty, with which we are all familiar, is a distinctly modern project, one launched as a response to the instabilities and uncertainties of early - modern Europe.

This is not to say there are no downright false prophets out there, but as Karl Barth reminded us, we can never be certain, particularly in our moments of greatest certainty, that we are not among them.

Fundamentalism, in many ways, used to rely solely on the inherent truth of its system as the source of its certainty.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

And the basis of that assurance is the same as that which sustains so many of our certainties in everyday life — not theory but experience.

Once an advocate for unwavering certainty and a commitment to absolute truth, I watched in confusion as all the black and white in my life slowly bled into shades of gray.

This question obviously needs answering, but, before I tackle it, let me remind you that science is not so full of certainties as you seem to think.

Certainly these are allegories for an internal, undeniable, unsought for, unmeasurable experience which leaves a previously non-theistic person in a state of certainty that there is, in fact, a benevolent, guiding force upon them individually and upon us all as creatures of a loving power?

In you and in you alone, as in a boundless abyss, our powers can launch forth into activity and find surcease for their tensions, can show their full capacity without encountering any limitation, can plunge into love and into the wild abandon of love with the certainty of finding in your depths no wreck - rocks of failure, no shallows of pettiness, no currents of perverted truth.