Not long before September 11 , 2001 for instance, several U.S. counterterrorism officials became certain that a drone had captured footage of bin Laden in a locale he was known to frequent in Afghanistan.
About four times a week I become certain that one of my two cats has either run away or somehow become trapped in a wall or inside a major appliance.
You get stuck in ruts and you become certain that nothing will ever be any different.
But when we become certain that our reflexive analysis has successfully proven what cannot be substantiated otherwise, are we not endowing ourselves with a form of arrogance that blinds us to any other possibility?
It was only later that day, when the family learned more details about the deaths of the Central Intelligence Agency operatives, that the bomber's family became certain that Mr. Balawi, a doctor, was not, as they thought, tending to sick and injured Palestinians in Gaza but was at the center of a complex espionage operation that backfired to deadly effect.
During my postdoc, as I became certain that I wanted an "alternative" career, I found myself at my institution's professional development office.
And Camille becomes certain that her husband is hiding an affair.
Because the more I thought about staying in the relationship, the more I felt like I would drown, and I became certain that to stay was to choose a sort of death.
In 2005, Hagewood became certain that Epic's powerful Unreal Engine 3 – a game development technology that the company licensed out to other studios – would become popular across the industry.
An adherent of Alcoholics Anonymous with over 35 years hard-fought sobriety, the 66-year-old says that when he found out that Bill W., one of AA's founders, had continued to smoke through emphysema and dependence on an oxygen tank, he became certain that his life would end the same way.
After a period of mystical contemplation, he became certain that pure philosophical systems are contradictory and illusory and that the intellect should be used only to destroy trust in human logic.
