Sentences with phrase «greater certainty of»

The fact is, technology can automate many of the painful tasks associated with privilege review and provide greater certainty of accuracy, while also reducing the overall time and cost.

This project uses an innovative spatial bio-economic analysis to provide a strategic framework for implementing offshore shrimp aquaculture with greater certainty of success.

Caps would produce greater certainty of longer - term emission reductions at the cost of uncertain economic consequences.

Thorp, the quantitative investor, valued securities on a probabilistic basis and relied on the statistical phenomenon known as «the law of large numbers» — the law states that more observations we make, the closer our sample will be to the population, and hence greater the certainty of our prediction — to construct portfolios of securities that would, in aggregate, outperform the market.

I disagree with you when you say «there are perfectly valid rational reasons for owning bonds that lead to greater certainty of comfortable outcomes.»

Once again, there are perfectly valid rational reasons for owning bonds that lead to greater certainty of comfortable outcomes.

Play hardball with retirees, and get them to reduce vested benefits in exchange for greater certainty of payment.

Off - site construction also gives staff, children and parents much greater certainty of completion of each new school on time and on budget.»

Local authorities have done a «fantastic job» in being as efficient as they can, but need more money and greater certainty of funding, he added, in order to plan works better and help to arrest the decline.

''... at each step you take on this road you will see so great certainty of gain, so much nothingness in what you risk, that you will at last recognise that you have wagered for something certain and infinite, for which you have given nothing.»

Not exact matches

If the deal enables easier movement of people between the two markets — critical to the provision of services — and provides greater certainty for investments, this could boost Canada's traded services.

Consumers and businesses have been able to manage their finances with greater certainty about the future purchasing power of their savings and income.

After 30 years of interaction with these remarkable people, I can tell you with great certainty that they all have one characteristic in common: absolutely nothing.

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.

It would be far better for the government to step in and take over mortgages from families, so that they could stay in their homes with greater certainty through this period of turmoil.

Empowering beliefs help you transition into a new state of being where you have absolute certainty — you don't just believe that your are capable of achieving great things, you know it.

As well as greater certainty they wanted diversity of assets.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

With a guarantee in place on the interest rate for this set period, you have a greater degree of certainty.

«Internationally, it is considered that the extension of AML / CTF regulation to include convertible digital currency exchanges would encourage innovation and investment by ensuring service providers have greater certainty and security in their dealings with digital currency businesses, while reducing the money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with this emerging technology.»

Federal Reserve micro-management of short - term rates led to undue certainty in the markets over the efficacy of monetary policy — «The Great Moderation.»

Life experience is one thing, Foundation Text is another, if the first is interpreted through the later on the basis of certainty one has to take whatever is espoused with a great deal of salt.

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.

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.

He answers by quoting John Lo > How well - grounded and great soever the assurance of faith may be wherewith it is received; but faith is still not knowledge; persuasion and not certainty.

I have been asked many times during debates about warfare whether I would use violence to defend myself and could never answer with any certainty that I would, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that if he made any attempt to harm my son he would find himself on the receiving end of the Greater Clawed Maltese Falcon.

Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no certainty is possible as to the order of events and little as to the historicity of a great many particular events.

«In an age of disenchantment with churches, but also of great longing for stability, certainty, and meaning in life, 85 percent of people still marry.

So if our understandings of the bible change over time (towards a greater level of certainty) it means that those before didn't have the «word of god» and thus were handicapped in their journey to god.

Parallel with this great fact concerning the wholeness of Christian experience in its essential nature is our approach to it and our certainty of it.

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

Several evangelical authors have expressed this need for greater modesty, tentativeness and flexibility: Daniel Taylor in The Myth of Certainty, Michael Baumann in Pilgrim Theology and William J. Abraham in The Coming Great Revival: Recovering the Full Evangelical Tradition.

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.

And the new aeon will be «present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as our understanding of real contingency in the divine - human ecosystem will allow» (RVA 216).

In the words of the great Christopher Hitchens «The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermiable faith that can't give way, is an offer of something not worth having...»»... take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.»

Many possible causes have been suggested, among them a general conservative trend of our times, greater faithfulness by liberals to the radical demands of the gospel, and greater expression by conservatives of warmth, zeal or certainty.

God of the war and peace God of the junkie and the priest God of the greatest and the least, I come to you God of the refugee God of the prisoner and the free God of our doubt and certainty, I come to you

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

The play reveals a great deal about a mentality that demands open - mindedness and excoriates dogmatism, only to advance its own certainties more insistently — that promotes tolerance and intellectual integrity but stoops to vilifying the opposition, falsifying reality, and distorting history in the service of its agenda.

For example, we know with certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state of ignorance than ours at present.

We now know that there has been a great deal of editing and re-editing of these books, until it is not now always possible to say with certainty what is early and what is late.

This answer to the quest for certainty runs through almost all Christian communities, from the great mystics to the most recent flowering of Pentecostalism.

Mr O'Brien said the code established a clear set of principles around trading relationships between retailers and suppliers, and would provide greater certainty and clarity without adding complexity or cost.

This highly personal research approach allows advertisers to reach their target with «a much greater level of certainty,» says Brockhoff.

Senderos meanwhile, having enjoyed success and ridicule in equal measure in an Arsenal shirt in the past, looks to have played his last game for us — being left out of even the Carling Cup team makes that a near certainty — and whilst Djourou has consistently shown great promise in Arsenal colours, he will not be appearing for us in 2009/10.

The great thing about cloth diapers is you can tell when the diaper is wet with certainty and parents tend to change their baby more often this way instead of letting their baby sit in a wet diaper for a period of time.

So that instead of uncertainty and unpredictability there is greater certainty.

Would it really bring greater satisfaction if absolute certainty could be introduced or would it actually take away the great enjoyment that football fans obviously get from the argument and the discussion about the rights and wrongs of decisions on which individual games, cups and championships turn?