Sentences with phrase «than certainty of»

Common issues include: correct price & terms to offer, seller temperament & motivation, sensitivity to request for repairs, and other real estate challenges where important decisions are made primarily on intuition, backed by experience and education, than certainty of fact.

As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.

This risk must be taken if our concern is the maximum probable human benefit rather than the certainty of keeping our own consciences spotless.

Not exact matches

We don't know, but for important institutions we need a high level of certainty that key decision - makers are exercising their judgment in the interests of those they serve, rather than themselves.

«As the most spectrum - constrained operator, this sale was more crucial to O2 than any of its rivals and the result gives it the certainty to continue its mobile - centric strategy in the UK market.

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.

To put yourself in the right mode, he says, «You've got to develop an emotional sense of certainty that what you have to offer is worth 10 times more than what you are asking for in return.»

The one thing we can say with certainty is that borrowers will encounter higher mortgage rates at the start of 2017 than at the beginning of 2016.

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.

I used to live in a place of absolute certainty, where I wanted more than anything to do everything right.

Interestingly enough, as I have learned to let go of that need for absolute certainty, I have become more certain than ever of what really matters.

Perhaps that confuses more than clarifies my position but I'll be the first to admit that I have not yet found the clarity that I seek and yet I would rather be where I am now than in the blind certainty of previous years when I thought I had it all figured out but was in fact wearing blinders that made it easier to look straight ahead but caused me to miss out on so much of the beauty of God all around me.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

Would you consider a person making a declaration of certainty one way to be more or less honest than one making a declaration of certainty the other?

It gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are reopened, and in general shocks us more fully awake than we are for most of our lives?

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

Questions of historical events are difficult to be «certain» about, but when it comes to historical certainty, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is more «certain» than most other historical events.

That is this lack of clarity and certainty which does not really help but bring us back to ourselves and our experiences and deeds rather than trust in the proclamation of grace.

As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we have.

No sooner had I reached the end of the verse than the light of certainty flooded my heart and all dark shadows of doubt fled away.»

It serves to establish a burden of proof rather than certainty.

Epistemologically, these experiences will be marked by the qualities of openness, tentativity, and relativity, rather than closedness, certainty, or absoluteness.

But I would hope that published writers, especially Christian ones, would have a little more humility than to speak with such certainty about topics of which they have limited knowledge and experience.

While this evidence does not make the Big Bang model a certainty, it does make it much more likely than any other model of «the early development of the universe» that has been suggested.

A certainty of sign more current and personal Than CNN blaring Balkan eruptions.At the back door a strange kinsman shakes The old mop over the porch rail, Scolding the dogs into silence in a cadence with the flailing, A ritual erasing the past, though the enduring sun Catches a sparkle of the settling dust.

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.

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.

The truth is that a God of unlimited intelligence would loses no providential advantage anticipating possibilities rather than a single certainty.

So they hold Scripture to be a more secure source of certainty than the Church.

Liberals encourage an openness to truth from any source, a tolerance for a variety of viewpoints, and a humility that bases its claims on probabilities rather than certainties.

In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would, of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim of the Church to teach.

The Church's pronouncements contain fundamentally nothing more than a repetition of the biblical account, and as regards content and degree of certainty, have no intention of going beyond the biblical text.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The certainties of Christianity's past have gone, and we are caught up in a process of cultural change more rapid and widespread than ever before in human history.

Suffice to say that it is almost a certainty that I have read FAR more widely than you on this subject (for a period of over 30 years).

Their error is no worse than ours if we think ourselves any smarter... for we have no more certainty than they, that is, the end will come for each of us, sometime, somehow

This was created not so much by any moral ambiguity in his professions per se (though some inspired less certainty than others) but by two features of my own interpretive hardwiring as a Muslim.

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

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

In speaking of eternal life, Cranmer was wise to point to a blessed hope rather than to a triumphant certainty.

a truth fully appreciated in many historic segments of Christianity that have chosen to live with the fragility of this truth, rather than with the certainty — and presumed finality — of magisterial truth.

While it's true, according to Pew, that more Republicans report believing in God than Democrats, a majority — 55 % — of Democrats still say they believe in God with absolute certainty, and an additional 21 % say that they are fairly certain God exists.

I want the varnish off because it conceals a writer of the eminence of Shakespeare or Dante, and such a writer is worth more than many creeds, many churches, many scholarly certainties.

So he turns his back upon no duty, however thankless; and when we are in need of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more certainty than we can count upon any other person.

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.

Nothing is harder than losing a child — and I imagine it's even harder when it's not the certainty of death separating you, but the uncertainty of not knowing.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

There is no promise of security, or plenty, or peace in our time, or the victory of this programme or that; any more than there is certainty that the «end of the world», or of our civilization, is inevitably impending.

Some time ago I made a discovery that somewhat surprised me: I found that I could communicate much better with people who disagreed with me but who were uncertain about their position than with people who agreed with me but who held our shared views in a posture of certainty.

No one can say that with certainty considering that Man City value him lower than Mangala in terms of outlays.

I know with 100 % certainty that I have far more in common with the average black American than I do any of the white celebrities out there.