Sentences with phrase «near certainty in»

«I've been taken to task by a couple of people within London Labour for my contention in several recent posts that Ken Livingstone is a near certainty in this summer's race for the party nomination to take on Boris in the next London mayoral election -LSB-...] Oona King was an MP for a London East End seat until she was ousted by George Galloway in 2005.

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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.

Playing it safe and waiting for near certainty and relying on processes that used to deliver the degrees of visibility and precision that were typical in the decision - making of all organizations is actually a risky strategy today.

Others, meanwhile, have acknowledged the near certainty that «Look What You Made Me Do» is going to be on such heavy rotation on radio and every other form of music delivery in the world that... well, resistance is futile.

Fed funds futures market point the near - certainty of a move at next week's meeting, with two more indicated through the year and a 1 in 3 chance for a fourth increase in December.

The only near - certainty is that until the election is over, France will not be a leader in pushing forward a growth and reform agenda at the European level.

Thus, it is a near certainty that Judaism inherited the devil from the Persian Zoroastrians and the Christians in turn, inherited their devil from the Jews and other pagan religions.

If this ideal situation proved to be consistently the case in animal experiments, then there would be near - absolute certainty that the cells produced by ANT - OAR are merely cells and not embryos.

One thing, however, we can say with reasonable certainty is that the large body of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word of mouth, from a period much earlier than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.

Instead, faith is for him the power, in particular moments of life, to take seriously the conviction of the omnipotence of God; it is the certainty that in such particular moments God's activity is really experienced; it is the conviction that the distant God is really the God near at hand, if man will only relinquish his usual attitude and be ready to see the nearness of God.

Luther was often paralyzed by what he called Anfechtungen, an untranslatable word that I would define this way: the spiritual assaults that keep people from finding certainty in a loving God — attacks of doubt and near - despair sent not from the devil but; quite possibly, from God himself.

There are substitution possibilities galore, even beyond those I listed, so no matter what's in your pantry, it's a near certainty that you could whip these up right now.

The defender is a certainty to be leading England's senior side in the near future, and even looks to be a leader despite his young age.

These types of prop bets don't take high limits, but I think it's a near certainty that James stays in Cleveland.

It's a virtual certainty that the Patriots, thwarted time and again by the Massachusetts legislature in their attempt to build a stadium near Boston, will strike a deal elsewhere in New England.

I rejoice in the near certainty of his sacking within a very few weeks and the then appointment of a PROPER manager who has ambition, will to win, an intolerance of shirkers and coasters and who can actually COACH!

Bottom on three separate occasions, they have spent much of the campaign in the relegation zone and are near certainties to miss out on the Champions League.

There have been reports from a newspaper in Marseille that Nasri is on his way and even The Guardian have marked the Frenchman's move down as a near certainty.

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.

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Cushy Closer was founded in 2007 by two sisters who were frustrated by the near certainty that opening or closing a door would wake their sleeping children.

In fact, it's more than a risk: it's a near certainty.

Not only is a strong performance in next year's euro - election a near - certainty, it will have chances to shine in the local elections now just eight weeks away and, probably, in further by - elections later in this Parliament.

Nevada (R): Republicans and Democrats agree on a simple fact: If Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) runs for a second term in 2010, it's a near - certainty he will lose.

«If you're predicting revenues in your budget, you need to have a level of certainty that you're going to obtain those revenues in the near future,» Shimsky said.

However, since Carl Paladino filed some 28,000 signatures yesterday, it appears a near certainty that Lazio will have to fight the Buffalo businessman for the GOP line in a September primary.

Florida (R): Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has gone from a long shot to run for the Senate to a near certainty, according to conventional wisdom in the Sunshine State.

And so, while it's a near - certainty that most voters have never heard of Charlie Rangel outside of New York state, he can be used symbolically by Republicans to make the case that Democrats made promises they have not kept in office.

When performed in tandem, two molecular biology laboratory tests distinguish, with near certainty, pancreatic lesions that mimic early signs of cancer but are completely benign.

They say that decades of clinical experience and criminal confessions — in which a parent has admitted to shaking a child with symptoms of SBS — bolster their case to the point of near - certainty.

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

«At this point, unfortunately, we can not yet say it is a near certainty,» said Lynch, who added that her team is continuing to follow the children in the study.

Though the can - do pluck he develops is clearly in response to the prejudices of his past, Louie's characterization is defined by his near - unflagging resourcefulness, and the certainty that he'll conquer any hurdle in his path.

While after the success of microtransactions in Grand Theft Auto 5 it was basically a given that Red Dead Redemption will have something similar, hearing it from the boss man himself made them a near certainty.

Filming likely won't get underway til the summer, which makes it a near certainty for a 2013 release, unless Reitman wants to fastrack even quicker then he did with «Up In The Air» (which did come out the same year it was shot).

In other states, like Illinois and Michigan, future increases to employee and employer contributions rates seem like a near certainty given the poor fiscal health of their plans.

The variety of practices around the world that were identified in my quick and dirty sample (earlier in this article) make it a near certainty that some regions and districts may already be doing this.

But recently, the data turned towards rising interest rates» favor and financial markets predicted, with near certainty, that the Federal Reserve would raise rates in December 2016.

With the near certainty of higher interest rates in the next year, barring any black swan events, it would be in the best interest of investors to begin looking at hedging options.

Bonds in Current Time Although government bonds may provide investors near certainty of notional capital being returned, the risk of locking in long - term losses can also be a near certainty with negative real rates and the prospect of interest rates inevitably trending higher.

Interest rates need to be around 1.5 % higher to shut off the speculation with near - certainty (did not work in 1987... rates got much higher.).

For a long - term investor, the near certainty of exceeding the long - term real return on T - bills, with only the magnitude in question, doesn't seem like much of a risk.

Rohit's response to Frank makes it sound like there less than near - certainty that current PSLF enrollees would be grandfathered in should there be any changes to the program?

The A350 has been brought in by Cathay to, primarily, replace their ageing A330 aircraft so service to the South Pacific looks to be a near certainty.

Graham 25 %, Andrew 70 %, Henry 60 %, Justin 80 %, Ryan 55 %, Shawn 40 %, Eric 5 % Before Sticker Star came out, I would have said that not only was it a near - certainty we would get a new Paper Mario reveal on the Wii U in a few years, but that I would be buying it on day one.

If the Nintendo NX is rolling off the manufacturing process in mid-2016 to such a degree that it influences Foxconn's revenue, it's a near - certainty that the system is coming out for this holiday season.

(It may also be enlightening to ponder that the legal system in the US is based upon «a reasonable doubt,» so Americans are literally trained to consider anything this side of near absolute certainty as reason to reject an argument.)

«The broader picture gives a strong indication that ice sheets will, and are already beginning to, respond in a nonlinear fashion to global warming,» he wrote last May in the online journal Environmental Research Letters, adding there was «near certainty» that unabated emissions «would lead to a disastrous multi-meter sea level rise on the century timescale.»

Consider this: it is possible that a giant flaming meteor may crash into the NYT building in the near future, but it is probably not wise to order your affairs as if that is a certainty.

«For the record, I wrote an article for Fortune published in September 2007 that referred to three «near certainties»: profit margins would come down, the housing market would break, and the risk - premium all over the world would widen, each with severe consequences.