Sentences with phrase «with less certainty»

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.

Had CEI bothered to look, they may also have discovered what credible environmentalists know: early investigations which gave indication that DDT may be a human carcinogen were viewed with less certainty as more investigations were completed (although we seem to recall more recent evidence that a breakdown product, DDE, is hazardous to humans).

They show that there's a tradeoff between liquidating your portfolio faster and knowing the value with more certainty, versus liquidating more slowly (and likely for a higher price) but with less certainty.

This intuitively makes sense: With less certainty that you will get the $ 1,000, the bond should have a lower price than the Treasury bond.

I'll argue the same point for the WLC, albeit with less certainty.

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.

Their absolute certainty that it is illegal may have more to do with not wanting to lose control of the player interaction, and less to do with a firm legal footing.

There is less certainty with an ARM or adjustable - rate mortgage as compared to a fixed - rate mortgage.

Readers of Last Testament may wonder, however, what in this fourth of Seewald's book - length interviews with the man who became Benedict XVI is going to change the views of a world media locked into its own certainties and «narratives», much less the views of Ratzinger's longtime Catholic critics.

Not knowing with 100 % certainty does not make god more or less likely.

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

And can one state that the peaceful pro — life activists who have saved hundreds of thousands of children are less effective or morally inferior to a few terrorists who can not with any certainty say they've saved a single life at all?

I lean Stoke but until I see them win this season it is a lean with far less certainty than in recent years.

Because diapering methods vary from family to family, it is almost impossible to say with certainty that babies in cloth diapers get less diaper rash than those in disposables.

I was made to feel less than because I formula fed my kids, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that formula feeding doesn't make you a bad mom.

Usually it's more or less impossible to explain a non-event (unless we know with 100 % certainty what causes the event).

There was less certainty regarding the level of testing connected with the standards.

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

Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.

In other words, the appeal of birding for the average man might have less to do with pursuing a creature through foliage than with the fact that when one finally gets the creature in one's sights, it can, with satisfying certainty, be crossed off, or added to, a list.

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

While no one can say with certainty what sort of life might be turned up by these experiments, the usual assumption is that it will be microbial, as single - celled life is adaptable to a wide range of environments and requires less energy.

Anderson and her co-author are unable to say with any certainty that eating dinner together more often, getting more sleep, and watching less TV will help any given child lose weight, because of the other factors that may contribute to a child's obesity (or that may protect normal - weight children from becoming obese).

Practicing what to say, and saying it with confidence, helps communicate the certainty of your decision and leaves less room for pressure.

It's his way of warning her about arrogance and the importance of respecting that the older you get, the less you know anything with any certainty.

Meanwhile, Rachel McAdams gets stuck with an MCU love - interest role far less crucial than the ones Natalie Portman and Gwyneth Paltrow have already abandoned, while Mads Mikkelsen plays the villain — a sorcerer rebelling against the cruel march of time and certainty of death — with a chilly self - regard he could conjure in his sleep.

Much as we might wish otherwise, state empowerment is more likely, not less, with the ironclad certainty of formal federal regulation.

Unless teachers know, with absolute, 100 % certainty, that they're going to stay in the same pension system for their entire career, they would likely be better off in less backloaded retirement plans that offer more retirement savings earlier in their career.

The only thing I can say with certainty is that nobody seems to know what the end of the year will look like, much less the end of the decade.

What we can say with certainty is that an ebook should cost less than a print book.

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.

There is no tax incidence hence the post tax return is 9 % which I felt is more or less at par with debt funds but with better certainty.

It is a riskier option for borrowers that could pay off or cost more, so there is less certainty with this option.

If you've been pre-approved for a loan, you can shop for a house with more certainty and less anxiety because you won't be going through the whole process worrying about your mortgage approval.

You need to try to have less trades but more certainty in the trades you do take, think about eventually becoming a «baller trader» with lower overall risk and higher rewards.

Even WITHOUT factoring in investment returns, etc. — would you rather payoff your mortgage with today's dollars or dollars from 15 years in the future when you know (with 99 % certainty) that the value of a dollar will be less?

There are many things that I don't know; if I did know the future with certainty, I am sure that most other people would know it at at least a lesser level of certainty.

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.

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.

Why aren't more mainstream climatologists admitting that the certainty about climate change is much less than the public and policymakers were led to believe, and why aren't more of the pathetic cowards willing to admit the travesties that some of their colleagues took with the scientific method?

The problem is that this science is much newer even than climate change, has even less certainty and is as much infused with apocalyptic visions of future states.

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

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

However, in this culture of transparency where climate scientists describe degrees of certainty and confidence in their findings, climate change deniers have linked less than complete certainty with not knowing anything.

What is hard to believe is that with the warming less than predicted and the myriad possible explanations for it (including many references to natural variability which had long been ignored or even ridiculed) that they would increase their certainty.

If so, why throw trillions of dollars at an issue with limited certainty and often hyped benifits when definite benefits can be had for hundreds of millions of people with so much less money?

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.

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.

A 3 % discount factor with an hypothesis of $ 250 bn annualy has in fact a $ 8 trillion dollar policy cost (fared in todays dollar value) and not $ 20 trillion over 87 years; (ii) I would assume, with great certainty, that the cost of the policy will not remain at $ 250 bn (in 2013 $) in the coming 87 years: government feed in tarifs and green certificate subsidies will become less and less expensive with renewable energy prices matching fossil fuel energy prices in the coming decades.