Sentences with phrase «certain as any prediction»

And that's as close to certain as any prediction that you can make.

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The dispersal and re-emergence of Israel was not a self - fullfilling prophecy: the dispersal portion certainly was not, as the Romans did not conquer Israel with the intent to fulfill Bible prophecy; at the time of the prophecy, there would have been no reason to believe that there would be people who would try to Israel; the people who founded modern Israel were, at least in the main, non-religious and were not trying to fulfill the Bible's prediction; and finally, considering the almost continual obstacles (wars) faced by Israel since the day of its founding, sucess at restoring Israel was far from certain.

While this prediction accords with some ongoing dynamics of Christian history, and while it might be vindicated several centuries down the line, the persistent vitality of traditional Protestantism, as well as certain ecumenical moves by both Catholics and Protestants, suggest this was a kind of pro-Catholic wishful thinking on Tocqueville's part, as well as a too determinedly logical kind of thinking.

However, out of even so brief a survey of the record of Christianity as the past chapters have contained, certain generalizations emerge which provide a basis for confidence in some important predictions.

When a «deeper» closed theory is found (as, in the case of gravitation, general relativity), the older theory is not simply discredited, but its predictions are upheld within certain parameter ranges specified by the newer theory, which adds correct predictions of its own outside those ranges.

My friends from Bet4Rate and other gambling sites are not at all happy as they made Arsenal a certain banker in their football predictions!

As a young professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pauling realized that he could explain the magnetism of certain molecules by the arrangements of their electrons and that this approach satisfied the predictions of quantum mechanics.

Predictions about drought and hurricanes becoming more frequent are seen as less certain now than they were thought to be in 2007

Dawid wrote that string theorists had started to follow the principles of Bayesian statistics, which estimates the likelihood of a certain prediction being true on the basis of prior knowledge, and later revises that estimate as more knowledge is acquired.

But nothing is certain, as NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is expecting temperatures in the western states to heat up later this month, which could offset the cooler conditions in the East.

«We can say that the amount of energy emitted by each burst as neutrinos is less than a certain amount, which can then be compared to predictions from individual theories,» Vandenbroucke explains.

If their predictions are correct, the levy will affect certain large academy chains and sector organisations with charitable status such as exam boards.

While a poor history counts against you, so does having little credit history as it makes predictions less certain.

Apart from the great first - party line - up that Sony has for the PlayStation 3 — and what would hopefully be not only the announcements of sequels to titles such as inFamous and Resistance but also full reveals of new IPs such as The Last Guardian — there's one thing that's dead certain among all these predictions: if Sony has a card up its sleeve, then E3 2010 will be the time to use it.

In a typically hilarious goodbye video by Commander Zorg, we get to enjoy their weather predictions of «bleak» and «bleaker still» before finishing off with the all - too - familiar (to those of you as old as I am) BBC testcard image, except the only clown on screen is a certain PDM OBE.

And yes, those models are uncertain, with error bars greater than zero: as with any prediction of future events, you inherently can never be certain you're right until those events have already occurred.

Thus, as in any facet of life, we must make decisions today in a world of uncertainty, based on our best predictions of what will happen tomorrow; past a certain point, debating levels of certainty is a fruitless recipe for dithering and delay.

As a researcher in a non-climate area I am stunned at (a) the lack of replication, (b) the tortured and frequently questionable use of certain statistical methods, © the overall underspecification of statistical models given the signifcance of the predictions being made and (d) the unwillingness of researchers to essentially treat anyone outside their immediate field with common courtesy.

Things are multi-factoral, but it would not appear as if predictions, which must include such other unpredictable variations, are very certain.

Even so, Mann said, certain predictions are based on physics and chemistry that are so fundamental, such as the atmospheric greenhouse effect, that the resulting predictions — that surface temperatures should warm, ice should melt and sea level should rise — are robust no matter the assumptions.

The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report that governments accept as certain predictions of future weather says, «In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long - term prediction of future climate states is not possible.»

The methods used for drought prediction based on certain drought indicators can be used directly to predict other hazards related to hydroclimatic variables, such as flood forecasting, although a difference may exist in the properties of variables of interest; for example, low quantile is of interest for drought prediction while high quantile is of interest for flood prediction.

This much, though, is certain — the new predictions will be essentially the same as the old ones, albeit a little more precise.

And due to the skill of the con artist (through the applying of the power of autosuggestion mostly) the victim will have some kind of «revelation», by which and through it, he or she discovered so «cleverly», all by himself, the main and the very certain way to success by «intellectually» valuating the best benefits in regard to future outcomes,,,,,,,,,,, in a single moment moving from imagination or otherwise a projection to a revelation or what otherwise could be considered as a very certain prediction.

This lack of «completeness» of the physics is my primary issue with AGW predictions — I am certain that climate models (at least the source code I've examined in GISS ModelE) do not capture very important parts, namely clouds and evaporation effects as they are exceptionally dependent upon many factors that are too small to model.

For example, in order to hit the ball out of the park as he did, he probably made a number of very astute predictions about how certain ethnic groups» votes would break down.

The legal, social and technological environment of today could scarcely have been imagined 75 years ago and it would be rash to attempt any prediction for the shape of family law in another 75; but however different the social conditions, the need for a comprehensive legal regime for resolving family - related disputes is certain to be as great as ever.

Even people unknown to officers can be identified and, with a few quick searches, revealed as a person with recognizable characteristics or about whom certain predictions can be made.

There is a need for some explicit direction on the proper framework as to what needs to be in a patent and / or the public realm and / or inhouse tests in order to render a prediction of a certain promised utility sound.

Lastly, Rocket aims to integrate next - generation blockchain - based prediction systems such as Gnosis and Augur to allow investors to predict success of certain startups.