Sentence examples for an uncertain duration from inspiring English sources

Having already experienced displacement — emigrating from Vietnam and in some cases losing their homes after Hurricane Katrina — they now face a crisis of epic proportions with an uncertain duration.

Because funding is generally limited in duration, it is more practical to seek funding for a limited-term project with a short-term "deliverable" than for a long-term study, potentially with an uncertain duration and outcome.

In particular, the costs per pressure ulcer period are surrounded by considerable uncertainty since these were based on a calculation of an uncertain price per day multiplied by an uncertain duration of a pressure ulcer.

"We have entered a struggle of uncertain duration," he told an emotional gathering in front of the damaged west wall of the Pentagon, but "we can be certain of the outcome".

For most such companies, the major capital investment required at the beginning of a process of uncertain duration and outcome seems daunting.

In recent weeks, for example, as the screws on lending have tightened, favoured industrial companies have been getting urgent calls from their bankers demanding that they immediately scoop up their credit needs for months to come, or be subject to a freeze of uncertain duration.

The war rhetoric has raised expectations that a "complete victory" is not only possible, but in fact necessary (even as Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy preamble reminds us that it will be a "global enterprise of uncertain duration").

The president, apparently, remains determined to treat the American people as if they have no role to play in what will, in fact, be a "global struggle of uncertain duration".

With a new term, of uncertain duration, under way, he finally has Obama in Israel.

If the five-member Commission were to accept his recommendations, support for workers would be slashed by more than 50percentthethe community compensation would be disallowed altogether, and the proposed investment in zero-carbon replacements for the plant would be deferred to a separate proceeding of uncertain duration and outcome.

In the United States we are probably headed for a very grim phase of uncertain duration.