The imperial view typified by a multinational epic like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy exalts heroic warfare as an expression of moral certainty in the continuing war between good and evil.
The musician turns her head to look at the viewer with an expression of profound inner certainty.
In any event, his expressions of certainty were, perhaps, exacting a toll: he had confided to friends that he'd been plagued by bad dreams since his return.
Mrs. Clinton said she "hoped" — forget expressions of certainty, conviction or confidence — for better German-American relations.
But outside the realm of science, people interpret expressions of certainty as more likely to be true than expressions of cautious probability.
Another important issue relevant to standardized reporting is the expression of diagnostic certainty.
Adapting this approach to our present concern, the suggestion is that we formulate an account of certainty in light of paradigmatic instances of beliefs held with certainty.
The acceptance of these possibilities is a matter of certainty, though, to be sure, a certainty that is conditional, based on inference from what we do actually experience.
"What you're talking about is a lack of certainty — business certainty and contract certainty," said Keith Loveard, an analyst at Concord Consulting, an advisory and consulting firm based in Jakarta.
These definitions are, in fact, expressions of the certainty with which the current evidence would lead us to believe that the treatment under consideration is cost-effective, and are dependent on the amount of evidence (i.e. sample size).
