"You are making that statement as if it is certain and definite," he said.
Schools also teach us to deal with information as if it is certain and unchanging, when there's rarely a stable "right answer". In my first job, I was constantly frustrated by the lack of guidance I received.
If the dollar looks as if it is certain to slide, then the central bank that sells a large chunk of its dollar reserves first may preserve a greater share of the value of its foreign currency holdings than other central banks in the region who sold later.
Davutoglu says that he tried to persuade the group not to sail and then asked the organizer of the flotilla to turn aside if Israel stopped the ships, as it was certain to do, and to offload the cargo at a port outside Gaza if necessary.
City Opera officials met recently with Amanda M. Burden, the commissioner of the Department of City Planning, who described the project yesterday as if it were all but certain.
I don't want to be a knuckle-rapping, finger-wagging, laughter-shushing square who reads "Elements of Style" as if it were erotica, but certain words really do make me scream in pain.
Oaklanders, in the friendliest possible way, kept giving me sombre warnings about Detroit, as if it were a netherworld filled with immediate, certain peril.
Philosophy is not opposed to science, it behaves itself as if it were a science, and to a certain extent it makes use of the same methods; but it parts company with science, in that it clings to the illusion that it can produce a complete and coherent picture of the universe.
As the series progressed, a strange thing occurred – the Discworld, created as a setting for humorous stories, began to take on a certain solidity, as if it were striving to become a real place.
But while I can manage to put everything together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle, many people with certain cognitive delays could have real trouble.
"As a result of these suggestions, you will feel as if you are headed for a certain and predetermined success..".... "You will be able to act, think, and feel as if it were impossible to fail".
