Sentences with phrase «virtual certainty»

Their experience will allow them to know with virtual certainty which insurance companies will look at your health favorably.

This enables us to know with virtual certainty which companies will look at your health favorably.

Scientists know with virtual certainty that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations tend to warm the planet.

That would leave the Hampshire club on 10 points — 14 from safety and virtual certainties for relegation to the Championship.

Unveiling the latest United Nations assessment of climate science, the experts cited a litany of changes that were already under way, warned that they were likely to accelerate and expressed virtual certainty that human activity is the main cause.

Retire with a $ 1 million portfolio at a time when the P / E10 level is low and you can take out $ 90,000 each year with virtual certainty that your retirement will not fail.

But that might not be very exciting, as it's been deemed a virtual certainty that he keeps his position and cements influence.

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.

Without significant increases in corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, it is now a virtual certainty that ordinary Canadian families will never enjoy the generous social programs enjoyed by most European families: enhanced maternity leave benefits, livable minimum wages, legislated paid vacation time of up to six weeks a year, genuine unemployment insurance, home care, pharmacare and more.

And he said such pressure would make the firing a virtual certainty, the government sources said.

While the probability of a 25 bp hike in June remained a virtual certainty, the probabilities of additional hikes September and December dropped as follows:

In an April 6 report, Standard & Poor's said despite the enactment of the moratorium, no rating action was warranted, as the existing rating of CC already reflected that a default is a «virtual certainty.»

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

Gossage's youth and ability, plus the team's whopping investment in him ($ 2.75 million over six years), made it a virtual certainty that he would get the lion's share of the late - inning, tight - situation work upon which a reliever's reputation and earning power rest.

It's hard to imagine when the last NBA season would be, or why there would be a last season, and it we know with virtual certainty that the NBA will not last beyond the destruction of the Earth, the death of our Sun, and the likely eventual heat death of the universe.

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.

Our main goal has been achieved and our secondary goal is a virtual certainty now.

It seems a virtual certainty that Klopp and the rest of the management will make a run at a few impact players.

Standing on the podium at major championships was always a virtual certainty for Jodie Williams when competing as a junior.

Even if they have to wait a further week or two, the final chapter in the most remarkable of fairytales — they narrowly avoided relegation last season — is a virtual certainty.

A runner - up spot in Bootle, where UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall is standing, is a virtual certainty.

On November 9, the San Francisco Elections Department released additional election returns data, which makes it a virtual certainty that Ross Mirkarimi won the November 8 election for Sheriff of San Francisco County.

That makes it a virtual certainty that same - sex marriage will not be voted on tonight or in the wee hours of Thursday.

It is a virtual certainty that the candidate who wins the Democratic primary will win the congressional seat in the general election this November.

Given Obama's success after forgoing public financing in the 2008 general - election campaign, it's a virtual certainty that neither the president nor the Republican nominee will participate in that system for the 2012 general election.

Party insiders say that it's likely that longtime Chairman Ed Cox, who has struggled to find top - flight candidates for statewide office with little help from other party leaders, will be replaced before the end of the year — and that it's a virtual certainty if the Republican candidate for governor goes down to defeat in November.

Continuing tensions on a variety of other issues is a virtual certainty, however, and neither appeared eager to discuss the other in their respective press Q&A s.

This autumn the plan will come before the general assembly of the United Nations for official approval, which those involved say is a virtual certainty.

«Some warming is a virtual certainty, but the amount of that warming is much less certain.»

Although we can not conclude from the data that extracurricular activities alone caused these improvements, we can say with virtual certainty that when we help a student move from no participation in extracurricular activities to engagement in three or four such activities, it does not harm academic performance.

A GR version of the new road - going Supra is a virtual certainty.

It is a virtual certainty that if a book has three different prices: print in the store, print online, and ebook, the printed book in the store will cost the most.

It's my experience that the only way for investors to successfully weather severe bear markets is to have a plan that incorporates the virtual certainty that they will occur.

I'll start this week with the calculator that Kitces suggested is needed, one that takes valuations into consideration when determining the safe withdrawal rate (the percentage of the retiree's portfolio that he may withdraw each year to cover living expenses with virtual certainty that the portfolio will last 30 years assuming that stocks continue to perform in the future at least somewhat aa they have always performed in the past).

You will do worse than the one you are trying to imitate with virtual certainty, and likely worse than average.

That is, someone who retirees with $ 1 million in his portfolio can take out $ 40,000 to cover living expenses each year with virtual certainty that he will not run out of money for 30 years (taking a 65 - year old retiree to age 95).

Carrying extra weight puts excessive stress on all of the dog's joints, making osteoarthritis a virtual certainty.

Cheap labor, poor regulatory system, biggest market on earth, This makes it a virtual certainty that shrewd investors from all over the planet, while paying «lip service» to environmental and social concerns, are in fact heavily invested in Chinese coal.