Sentence examples for certain rather than from inspiring English sources

It's an utterly convincing argument for making punishment swift and certain rather than severe.

But his comments fed into a debate set off last week when Mr. Asmussen's former boss, Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, put Greece back on the public agenda, saying that more aid was certain, rather than merely very likely.

The early data is encouraging: the quarterly Tankan survey showed a jump in business sentiment in September, and unemployment fell in August — when Mr. Hatoyama's election was already certain — rather than rising as it did in Britain and the United States.

On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable knowledge as the goal of enquiry.

To suggest that he only remains inside in virtue of "adopting a certain philosophical style and … appealing to certain writers rather than to certain others" (Dummett 1993, 5) is already to admit the inadequacy of the characterization.

Hence, we would advocate the prediction target (i.e., the dependent variable) to be ever development of asthma by a certain age rather than active asthma at a certain age.

Philosophy of Language (1973: 577)] "Now as we thus make constellations by picking out and putting together certain stars rather than others, so we make stars by drawing certain boundaries rather than others.

The concept of evil would have explanatory power, or be explanatorily useful, if it were able to explain why certain actions were performed or why these actions were performed by certain agents rather than by others.

Most users are interested in achieving a certain goal, such as simply recording an upcoming movie or cooking a certain dish, rather than interacting at the product function level which relates to hardware/software features.

He questions the league's preoccupation with certain calls rather than merely refereeing the moment.

"The idea that development proceeds by blocking certain activities rather than enhancing them was quite novel.