Sentences with phrase «less certainty on»

Sounds good but there was less certainty on what criteria was used to judge that claim.

It's not that things were worse in the late 70s into 1980, but the fear carried a bigger hammer and there was less certainty on what could be done to recover.

Not exact matches

Since the Italian crisis is likely to grind on - with another round of elections a near certainty over the next year - the euro will remain under pressure because the ECB will continue to maintain easy credit conditions while signs of the Fed's less accommodative stance will become increasingly more evident.

Later on, of course, Peter ran away from these certainties; no less than three times he denied knowing the man from Nazareth.

Sometimes that certainty doesn't make one feel any better about it or feel less guilty (mom guilt: the struggle is real, guys) but this sixth sense and gut knowledge telling this is the right move is a real feeling and shouldn't be ignored based on the worry that you're somehow a bad mom.

Given the political dynamics at play and the controversial nature of the ACAO in general, passage (or even a vote) on the ordinance next week is less than a certainty.

Businesses believe there is less certainty when dealing with elected officials, and that professional members serving on an LDC Board is the correct path.

The data for climate change is a jigsaw puzzle, with clearer pictures in more recent decades and less certainty earlier on.

But with the yield on long low - investment grade bonds hovering above 5 %, I can tell you with certainty as a life actuary that the life companies are not providing a 7 % return to retirees — it is far, far less, more like 4 %, or maybe less.

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.

For the soldiers faced with death, «survive» was experienced as a thoughtless reflex; for the citizens at home, the keepers of the feeble political order, the command «go on» is heard with much less certainty.

There, he focuses on an important piece, «More knowledge, less certainty,» written by the climatologist Kevin Trenberth for Nature Reports / Climate Change earlier this year.

[ANDY REVKIN says: He was indeed expressing this view at the meeting, but got significant pushback from some participants, while others were clearly invited because they shared his skeptical views — mainly on the certainty of the conclusions, less on whether humans are exerting an influence on climate.

This would have to be based on a lesser degree of certainty as there would be less signoff by the participants.

In some rough order of certainty we can consider that the 11 year solar cycle impacts on the following are well accepted: stratospheric ozone, cosmogenic isotope production, upper atmospheric geopotential heights, stratospheric temperatures and (slightly less certain and with small magnitudes ~ 0.1 deg C) tropospheric and ocean temperatures.

We can say with certainty that 2X climate sensitivity can not be less that 1.5 K unless perpetual motion is available on demand.

Accordingly, there is less certainty about the changes in frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones on a regional basis than for temperature and precipitation changes.

Recent debates have centred less on the possibility and more on the certainty and speed with which climate change will take place.

I favor relying on the CO2 data, and the mathematical certainty that CO2 emission as a perturbation is going to upset some of the stability of the climate, and we can perhaps say little more than that, except with less perturbation there may be more stability.

So, the Administration policy, egged on by Lindzen citing supposed uncertainties, is asking for greater certainty (actually, they mean higher confidence), but providing less and less funds for doing the necessary research.

I suspect that Messrs Nyquist and Shannon, after spending a few hours contemplating the endless plotting of «trends» by Climate Scientists and their pontificating on the dire consequences thereof — with 97 % certainty, no less, would consider the whole field to be comedy comparable to Abbot and Costello's «Who's on First», were it not for the fact that this «comedy» is being cited as justification for governments taxing and regulating every human activity that either produces or consumes energy.

But as far as gryposaurus February 7, 2011 at 8:38 pm and dhogaza February 7, 2011 at 8:39 pm on scientist climate scientists getting uncertainty go read Trenberth, K. E., 2010: More knowledge, less certainty.

«The principal concern is that as compliance - based regulation is focused on outcomes rather than rules, there is more ambiguity and less certainty for firms as to what they must actually do to achieve compliance,» says the consultation report.

«The Bill will also give UK citizens less protection against the power of the state as they will no longer be able to challenge EU law brought into UK law on the basis of non-discrimination, proportionality, legal certainty or the right of defence.

According to Langdon, UK citizens would have less protection against the state than before since they would no longer be able to challenge EU law brought into UK law on the basis of non-discrimination, proportionality, legal certainty or the right of defence.

Lawyers who to date have been willing to undertake claims with less certainty of success, because of the success fees they have received on other cases, may start «cherry - picking» their cases.

The arcane approach that is the timesheet is becoming less and less popular (as can be evidenced by a brief review of other posts on this site) and customers are demanding more certainty, clarity and comfort that they are not signing on to an annuity stream for the advisor whereby they are being charged and billed for the advisor's inefficiency or learning.

The rise of AirPods has increased this need and exacerbated the output - device - presence issue, as their multi-device sharing behavior leads to less certainty by the user about which device they're currently connected to, and a more frequent need to manually select them on the current device.

January brought even less certainty to the peninsula as South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges were raided by police and tax agencies on January 10, 2018, kicking off a week of contradiction by top Korean officials that precipitated a market - wide meltdown known as «Red Tuesday» on January 16, 2018.