Sentence examples for as a virtual certainty from inspiring English sources

"Every 10 years, redistricting litigation joins death and taxes as a virtual certainty".

In other member countries, the treaty is to go before the national legislatures, and its passage has been presented as a virtual certainty.

The depth of the rate cut alarmed Mic Mills, a trader at City firm ETX Capital, who said: "Traders are thinking, if we've really got to cut rates to 3%, then how bad is it out there?" A cut in UK rates of at least a half point was regarded as a virtual certainty, but there had been a growing clamour for a more radical move of a full point.

But judging by the prices of federal funds futures, a rate cut this year barely considered a possibility at the beginning of July is now priced in as a virtual certainty.In fact, markets may be too optimistic about the odds of a cut.

The appraisal that supported the $33,019,000 deduction took the ultimate maturing of the SMI as a virtual certainty.

In a press conference announcing the arrests, Attorney General Eric Holder described the ties to "elements" of the Iranian regime as a virtual certainty.

Justice Stevens said there was a "virtual certainty" that the jury was confused, as well as "no reason to believe" the judge's answer had resolved the confusion.

It is now a virtual certainty that as the search for a new trust Chair gets underway that these arguments will re-surface.

Once Mark Teixeira hit his dramatic home run off his archenemy, Vicente Padilla, in the eighth inning Saturday, it seemed as if a Yankees victory was a virtual certainty.

Law enforcement officials said today that they believed additional anthrax attacks were a virtual certainty, even as they acknowledged that their extensive investigation into the germ-laden letters had left them baffled.

As the conference season proceeds, it is a virtual certainty that we shall hear more of the bizarre dispute between the Conservative and Labour parties over ownership of the language of progress.