Sentences with phrase «such certainty by»

I find it astonishing that there is such certainty by the IPCC in this matter.

Not exact matches

By reinvesting dividends, interest income, and capital gains for an entire working career of 40 + years, it would be a virtual certainty, or as much as such a thing is possible in a non-certain world, that the portfolio owner would retire with millions of dollars in assets due to the power of compounding.

For such a remark completely fails to account for the joyful certainty, courage, confidence and tenacity exhibited by the young Church.

Furthermore, the degree of certainty of such historical aetiology can be increased by the fact that the rational inference is drawn under the light of faith and of inspiration, as of course happens in recognition of more precise precepts of the natural moral law.

Such a thing would not merely mean that the Church's knowledge and certainty can slowly grow, which is indisputable, but that a clarity and certainty already achieved can be abandoned once more, and that by a positive measure taken by the magisterium itself.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

For Hartshorne, all such terms as «causality,» «matter,» «mind,» «private,» «knowable,» «ordered,» «good,» «evil,» «the past,» and «certainty,» can not be understood as having any clear, unparadoxical meaning apart from God as depicted by neoclassical metaphysics.

I in no way want to strip you of your experience of faith by suggesting that your certainty is (or could be) a fraud (I get the feeling you are pretty resilient to any such suggestion), but I still can't understand how you can claim certainty in any absolute sense.

While the evidence for such a proposition remains tentative, its tentativeness calls into question the certainty with which paid - time religious broadcasters assert that their efforts in competing on the basis recognized by the television industry (i.e., financial competence) have been responsible for increasing the amount of religious programming on television.

But I do not find piety well served by such historical inconclusiveness and therefore I gravitate to where the certainties are higher.

The certainty with which the faith of many neighbors (including many Christian neighbors) was thus disposed — by some of the very people championing dialogue — pressed the discussion beyond vague notions of «respect» for varying forms of faith toward a search for the appropriate criteria for such judgments.

The implication of the new subatomic physics was that certainty was replaced by probability, or the notion of tendencies rather than absolutes: «we can never predict an atomic event with certainty; we can only predict the likelihood of its happening»... This directly contradicts the mechanistic model we explored above, and it implies that a subject such as normal birth needs to be looked at as a whole rather than its parts...»

We are taught that the speed of light in free space is one of the universal physical constants: c. Giovannini et al. now show that there are certain conditions under which such certainty can be broken (see the Perspective by Sambles).

Now, in this Berlin Silver Bear winner from Mia Hansen - Løve — writer - director of such intimate films as Father of My Children and Goodbye First Love — Huppert delivers a note - perfect warm and wry performance as a philosophy teacher whose life is defined by ideas rather than circumstance, a woman of substance — intellectual, emotional, financial — who faces unexpected constraints and freedoms when the assumed certainties of her domestic life unravel.

Pronouncements by school - choice opponents are rife with such ideological certainty.

In such a scenario, what seems almost a certainty is that Amazon won't like to spoil the party by launching a tablet targeted exclusively at kids, ruling out the grown ups using them.

With such a short time period, the safety and certainty offered by a savings account or CD far outweighs the potential extra return you might earn from the stock market.

To the extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any Losses by or with respect to the Account, except to the extent that such Losses are actual Losses proven with reasonable certainty, are not speculative, are proven to have been fairly within the contemplation of the parties as of the date hereof, and are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration panel in a final non-appealable judgment or order to have resulted solely from our gross negligence or willful misconduct and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we will not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or other losses (regardless of whether such damages or other losses were reasonably foreseeable).

However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by events such as rapid arctic melting), I don't expect 100 % certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global warming.

So instead of asserting with such certainty that «no one knows why it has cooled and heated for those millions of years» - because you are incorrect - how about you start by asking how scientists know what they know?

By assigning such certainty to them that we are considering changing the world econmy on their results is very foolish.

Maybe you're smarter than the predominant opinion among experts — but two questions need to be asked: (1) to what degree is your view of the evidenced biased by your ideological identity (you clearly have a very strong ideological identity on this issue) and, (2) how could you possibly state a certainty about such a counterfactual in such a highly uncertain context?

You imply by the admirable economy of expression you use (such as «certainly false») an absolute degree of certainty.

Happily, Hsu debunks the notion of «emissions certainty» that was used to sell cap - and - trade, by pointing out that for a «stock» pollutant such as CO2 that persists in the atmosphere for a century, the objective must be cumulative rather than annual reductions.

conclusion of a link from Dr. Curry) http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/hale/ENVS5200/Parker%20–%20Predicting%20Weather%20and%20Climate.pdf Which leads to the lack of certainty by entities such as NAS / APS / IPCC and their indications of at best «likely» (66 - 90 % confidence) that CO2 is a primary cause of GW.

Now, taking even the most wildly optimistic statement of certainty of AGW — the «very likely (> 90 % probability) stated by IPCC in AR4, this hardy makes AGW a «fact» such as gravity, and thus subject to the pejorative denialist label (Catastrophic AGW and effectiveness of mitigations would have certainty far far below this 90 %).

The ongoing process of the Kyoto mechanisms, such as the CDM and the emissions trading system, demand market certainty, made possible by a strong mandate to develop effective tools to mitigate GHG emissions and fund adaptation projects.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

could better be stated «Such variability has important implications for the assertions of levels of certainty unsupported by the current level of scientific knowledge regarding climate change.

Such a plan would allow for certainty, learning - by - doing, cost declines and lower financing costs.

The effect was to let the public be deluded about such things, by those who hoped that the public would rise up and demand politicial action, while the climate scientists could comfortably sit back, let the wild claims appear to be part of their famously «settled» science, knowing that if the «predictions» failed, they could point to their refereed journal papers that made no such explicit claims, or at least none with claimed certainty, thus achieving sensational scare stories but with plausible deniability.

A key provision of the ABC petition would have the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) establish a permitting process that would significantly improve the protection of birds covered by the MBTA and would afford the wind industry a degree of regulatory and legal certainty that can not be provided in the absence of such a process.

Although this work still continues, we can — by looking back to pioneers such as the able Baron — appreciate the degree to which our certainty regarding factors affecting «the thermometrical state of our globe» has grown.

The ECJ approach neglects the negative effects on fundamental principles built by a national constitutional consensus and enshrined in the Constitutions, such as legal certainty in criminal matters (v.g. the Taricco case) and to that constitutional courts can not look the other way.

For the reasons given by the Court of Appeal, we are all of the opinion that the exclusion from the insurance policy based on art. 2402 of the Civil Code of Québec may not be set up against the heirs of the insured, as that article must, even in light of s. 34 (1) of the federal Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I - 21, be interpreted having regard to the principles of interpretation that apply in the area of insurance law so as to favour the precision and certainty of the grounds for exclusion in such matters.

Secondly, by injecting the uncodified principles of the common law into the division of family property, the certainty created by the Family Law Act — such as it is — is substantially undermined.

The only limits to such interpretation are set by general principles of law, such as the principle of legal certainty and non-retroactivity (Pupino, para. 44).

Such an approach would scarcely provide the certainty that this field stands in need of, nor can we perceive principled standards by which such statistical evidence might be evaluaSuch an approach would scarcely provide the certainty that this field stands in need of, nor can we perceive principled standards by which such statistical evidence might be evaluasuch statistical evidence might be evaluated.

Then again, Paul Daly has raised the intriguing possibility (though by no means a certainty) that Crown prosecutors in Quebec, could, in such a scenario, simply exercise discretion to prosecute cases of assisted suicide.

Although the owner submitted that damages should be assessed in such a way as to achieve certainty, a point firmly supported by Lord Bingham in his dissenting judgment, Lord Scott made it clear in response that there was no «so - called principle of certainty» (para 38).

[16] The SJC considered innovator liability to require such a modification given the certainty that a user of a generic drug will rely on the label fashioned by the brand - name manufacturer and as state law shields failure to warn claims from generic manufacturers, leaving plaintiffs without recourse for their injuries.

The OFT has issued limited interim guidance on the interpretation of various novel concepts introduced by the Regulations (such as «invitation to purchase», «transactional decision» and the requirement of «professional diligence») but it will be some time before any degree of certainty is reached in relation to the scope of this important new legislation.

For example, in one recent media report, a commentator stated matter of factly that «there isn't very much of it» («it» being price fixing among firms in Canada), that «at any one time, at any one year, there are 10, 12, 15 cases going on» and that «for every case that gets detected, there are probably several cases that aren't» [http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/price-fixing-explainer-1.4489213] Given that price fixing and other conspiracies among competitors are by their nature conducted in secret and there are no statistics or sources of information on active cartels, such speculation on the level that Canadian markets may or may not be cartelized is simply impossible to state with any certainty.

If it may be thought that any error was entailed in the Court's perception of jurisdiction, such an apprehension by itself, would not justify the reversal of the Macharia Ruling, a decision which, as we must take judicial notice, will have established itself as a mark of certainty and predictability in the law,... on the basis of which numbers of people will have figured out their rights and expectations.

The Luxembourg law on financial collateral arrangements also improves the legal certainty of financial collateral arrangements by ensuring that certain provisions of insolvency law do not affect the benefits and protections created by such arrangements.

As demonstrated in my Native Title Report 2000 the differential treatment of Indigenous people in the validation and confirmation provisions was justified under this approach by reference to notions such as certainty, the unlikelihood of real harm occurring, balancing the interests of stakeholders and confirming the common law.

And such a committee can not be easily persuaded that the right of Indigenous titleholders to equal protection of their title by the law should be compromised in order to achieve certainty for other stakeholders.

By creating a specific exemption for native title payments, there will be certainty of treatment for those in receipt of such payments.

Every person should have the right to acquire real property with confidence and certainty that the use or value of such property will not be wholly or substantially eliminated by governmental action at any level without just compensation or the owner's express consent.

Such certainties, established by the exclusive listing agreement, minimize dissension and misunderstanding and sellers and lessors are assured of the best efforts of listing brokers and cooperating brokers.