The phrase "a certain penalty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific penalty that is not explicitly defined or when the exact nature of the penalty is not important to the context.
Example: "If the rules are violated, there will be a certain penalty imposed on the offenders."
Alternatives: "a specific penalty" or "an unspecified penalty".
He had to time that perfectly, else it was a certain penalty.
61 min: Karagounis is booked for diving when it looks a certain penalty.
To cap it all, the home side were denied what looked a certain penalty following a clumsy challenge on Harewood by Jamie McCombe.
STEVEN WILTON, WBA.VitalFootball.co.uk I'm feeling pretty hard done by, due to the referee's decision to let Gary Neville off what was a certain penalty.
Deterrence theory has proven difficult to validate, however, largely because the presence of many intervening factors makes it difficult to prove unequivocally that a certain penalty has prevented someone from committing a given crime.
In fairness Blackpool should have been awarded a certain penalty in the first half when Laurent Koscielny fouled Gary Taylor-Fletcher but that would have only disguised their defensive shortcomings.
Matthäus booms a frighteningly certain penalty low to Shilton's right.
When an existing user is forced to move to a different band or disconnect, certain penalty will occur due to the computational cost involved or contractual obligation.
For a cache miss, a certain cycle penalty has to be added to the instruction execution time.
(ii) A cloud bursting technique is proposed where during congestion, low priority delay tolerant NRT connections are preempted and outsourced to a public cloud at a certain price penalty to accommodate the RT connections.
A cloud bursting technique used proposed where during congestion, low priority delay tolerant non real-time (NRT) connections are preempted and outsourced to a public cloud at a certain price penalty.
