Passage was less certain in the Assembly.
His Tinkoff team-mate Contador's future is less certain, in both the short and medium term.
What is less certain in their eyes is whether this amounts to a strategic shift or a ephemeral phenomenon that ends with Obama's presidency," Ali Vaez, an Iran expert at the International Crisis Group, said.
The Australian government recently approved the merger, but its fate is less certain in the European Union, particularly since the Europeans announced, in mid-November, that they would extend their investigation into whether it would violate European notions of privacy and anti-competitive activity, which are stricter than America's.
And, although the science was less certain in 1997 than now, officials from the rich world were concerned enough to agree to mandatory cuts in their GHG emissions by an average of 5% below levels in 1990, a target they said they would try to reach by 2008-12.Greens haveverer since howled that 5% is an insignificant amount given the scale of the problem.
Things are less certain in the men's pair, with Olympic champions Andy Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed struggling to get the better of New Zealand duo Hamish Bond and Eric Murray.
(Differentiation of these compounds is less certain in cases where only one epimer is present due to fact that the relative intensity of the M+. and M-15+ ions are in part determined by instrumental parameters).
A Senate vote on the issue is expected as early as Wednesday, although the timetable for Mr Obama's request is less certain in the House, where the measure faces an even rockier time.
Compared to the case for conventional moment-resisting frames or shear-wall buildings, where details have been extensively verified to be seismically effective, the seismic response of this type of building is less certain, in part due to the large window and door openings as well as the unusual detailing commonly adopted for their reinforcement and connections.
