Sentence examples for certain to us from inspiring English sources

"One thing seems certain to us.

But after the dazzling confidence of love at first sight came a complex, chaotic year, and what had at first seemed so certain to us (and still seems so now) no longer appeared at all certain or even desirable.

They intend for the sex to be filmed; they intend for it to be exhibited at a local "art porn" festival; it's not entirely certain – to us, or to them – what else they intend for it to be.

"Man will fly like the bird," Nadar promised, "better than the bird; for... it is certain to us that man will be obliged to fly better than the bird, in order to fly merely as well".

I guess the best way to put this is for me to say the stage is a lot more certain to us and the studio is... [sighs] I don't want to say something stupid.

One reader declared: "Allowing 'forgiveness' to determine the course of the criminal justice system is certain to return us to a time when those who commit domestic violence enjoy preferential treatment".

There's nothing, however, more certain to make us feel our age than catching up with the rock idols of yesterday, the men and women who provided the rebellious soundtrack of our youth.

As I recall, Elvis was condemned for what he did with his hips, jazz was once certain to send us to hell and assuredly rap will prove the downfall of Western civilization.

The campaign against Iraq, wrote Brent Scowcroft in the op-ed that launched a thousand others, "is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism".

Nonetheless, the idea of just throwing out a carefully built inventory (certain to keep us in jalapeño-kiwi jelly and salted sardines for the better part of a nuclear winter) was devastating.

Everyone likes to complain about college football's Bowl Championship Series, and how it fails so often to produce a national champion we can agree on, but the beloved N.C.A.A. basketball tournament this year is certain to leave us with a winner whom no one believes to be the best team playing.