Sentences with phrase «better than a certainty»

Once it has been established as a «fact», it doesn't matter what science says, because the doubt incubates the imagination better than certainty, and prohibits scientific expertise from undermining the power of the nightmare.

As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.

Not exact matches

All told, Dr. Lefebvre can't say with certainty that pets are living longer than they ever have, but the fact that owners are caring for them more with better technology would seem to suggest that.

The Department concludes that it can best protect the interests of retirement investors in receiving sound advice, provide greater certainty to the public and regulated parties, and minimize the risk of unnecessary disruption by taking a more balanced approach than simply granting a flat delay of fiduciary status and all associated obligations for a protracted period.

While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart money says that it'll probably be even more complex than our current system).

As for the Christian imperative to share the gospel, Vine say it's often «better to be kind than to be right» and that in his experience being honest about our doubts is more authentic to others than cast - iron certainty.

My certainty does NOT make me better or more spiritual than them.

If art inspired by uncertainty is better than art inspired by certainty, let us dismiss Dante and the cathedrals.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

Some time ago I made a discovery that somewhat surprised me: I found that I could communicate much better with people who disagreed with me but who were uncertain about their position than with people who agreed with me but who held our shared views in a posture of certainty.

this guy is not yet an epl level player its so f ****** obvious to anyone other than wenger and a bunch of delusionals on this web site... farm him out to brentford see how he does maybe he will end up better than bendtner am not yet convinced but happy to be proved wrong... but we need more serious attack options up front for sure this season to be serious contenders... thats a certainty

«Can anybody say with any certainty that Sterling is better than Mateo Kovacic, Hakan Calhanoglu, Memphis Depay, Paulo Dybala, Alen Halilovic, Davy Klaassen, Nikola Ninkovic or Jese Rodríguez?

Since the best psychiatrist can not predict who will kill others or e selves with any certainty, there is a high risk that suicides will actually increase rather than decrease as intended.

«While a URI win would have brought us certainty for the next five years,» said NCREDC Co-Chair Garry Douglas, «$ 130 million is more than our total first year request so we have done extremely well and should be able to carry out almost all of our priority projects.»

The Conservative Party is torn between a desire to return to past national certainties (now impossible) and a move towards an outdated idea of a United States of Europe, while economic forces push towards a Europe of regions, where what is really important is whether the Welsh can make a better bid for a Japanese factory than the Catalans.

Whether or not whey truly is «better» than a normal high protein food in your POST workout meal is hard to say with absolute certainty (I tend to doubt it matters that much in the end).

Koretz concedes that we can't say with certainty that adopting alternative accountability policies here would work better than test - based accountability, which may leave readers wondering whether they would.

With as much certainty as these things can be known, we know that analytical and explicit instruction works better than inductive, implicit instruction for most school learning.

However, it's far better to give yourself to a particular plan in order to know with a fair amount of certainty that it doesn't work than to dabble in three different directions without a clue about what would actually work if you give yourself fully to one of them.

However, with 100 % certainty — His book is worth a lot more than $ 1, and well worth getting.

There are two certainties in life soul collector and hellhound Jericho Stryker knows too well — Death never takes a holiday, and women are typically more trouble than they're worth.

While not a firm commitment to lend, a preapproval offers more certainty than the less formal prequalification because it is based on the borrower's income and assets, as well as a credit check.

You have to appreciate the certainty here, and, well, the company should be certain with approximately half of the one - to four - family loans in its portfolio carrying a current loan - to - value ratio of greater than 100 %.

In some cases a consumer proposal is a better option than a second bankruptcy, since by filing a proposal you have certainty over what you will be required to contribute during the process.

The fact that most fail to beat the market at some point is because of a mathematical certainty; only 50 % of things can be better than average.

It is better to have an accurate uncertainty, than an inaccurate certainty.

In theory the actively managed «bond» fund should do better than a passive bond ETF — but because of the fees involved this is far from a certainty.

People would rather have false certainty than live in the reality that choosing good investments is difficult.

Said another way, actuaries can project with much better certainty the financial damage a legion of 16 - year - old male drivers will create over the next 5 years than what the S&P 500 will be on a certain date 5 years into the future.

I don't think that it is known with certainty whether dogs are better able to resist bacterial infections than humans or other species.

(And for what it's worth, I can say with certainty that it's miles better than BioShock 2.)

There's a certainty that you will find on the Internet these days — someone is almost always better than you at something.

If nothing else I think we can say with certainty this will be a better expansion than the universally reviled Warlords of Draenor — not really a high bar to clear.

The only certainty is that the artists think they know you better than you know yourself.

The lack of trend in the GCR is a more fundamental problem, and it may well be that night time temperatures have risen faster than day - time temperatures, but I didn't think we could say that with certainty at present.

Of course, some people seem to be able to be absolutely * sure *, but then spend their time poking at scientists to demand certainty, and claim that anything less than certainty is no good.

The upshot of this rambling: I believe that there is a «bias toward certainty» — an unjustified momentum which leads well - meaning scientists to accept more than they should, when it lies outside of their area of expertise.

Although uncertain benefits generally are better than uncertain detriments, obviously, uncertainty is worse than relative certainty, and in international dynamics, the sudden windfall of a neighbor can by envy or starvation stir ancient or imagined animosity to conquest.

We don't get any closer to science by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do by the ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees of global warming.

«Uncertainty should make us worry more than certainty, because uncertainty means that things can be worse than our best guess... in the case of climate change, uncertainty is asymmetrical and things are more likely to be worse, rather than better, than expected.»

I would argue that, even in the case of supposed «beneficial» geoengineering efforts, it will take extreme certainty that such efforts will do more good than harm before such efforts are justified.

In the long run, the truth of whether the earth is round (mostly), goes around the sun (so the best evidence shows), or is warming due to industrial activity (considered «very likely» i.e., more than 90 % certainty) will be demonstrated on the global stage.

I also take issue with Gleick's 2007 testimony... «In the long run, the truth of whether the earth is round (mostly), goes around the sun (so the best evidence shows), or is warming due to industrial activity (considered «very likely» i.e., more than 90 % certainty) will be demonstrated on the global stage.

Deciding to apply the method only to a single value of certainty does not make the calculated value any more correct than it is when the other values are calculated as well.

CO2 closer to RCP6.0 than the IPCC's obviously extreme RCP8.5, we don't get scary numbers and we have good certainty about the projections of human influence on the climate.

Better than typical prior stuff that was too buried in the «nitty gritty», and probing nearer to the heart of the issue, i.e. that the certainty of calamity is a cultural consensus not a scientifically supported fact.

Therefore, if we know that the sun's spectrum varies by two orders of magnitude greater than TSI --- And it is well understood by some, how various frequencies of light affect albedo, we can not dismiss their affect with certainty.

If that sounds like having to jump in the deep water before we're sure we can swim it still looks better than the absolute certainty of irrevocable global climate disaster that delaying our commitment and keeping on as we are.

I find Sharpston's approach more satisfactory than that of Cruz Villalón, both because she solves better the implications of Article 51 of the Charter to legal certainty, and because it is more sistematic with the idea of attibution of competences upon which EU legislative action is based.

The system can also handle hypothetical reasoning (eg, multiple parallel possibilities) as well as assigning probabilities to outcomes rather than rigid certainty to evaluate more complex decisions (fuzzy logic).