Sentence examples for certainty first from inspiring English sources

Iyengar et al. (2008) derive the optimal consumption level for three-part tariffs under certainty first, and then allow for small variations of this level ex post.

Fragmentary evidence found exclusively in folklore indicates only two complexes of ideas with any certainty: the first concerns the structure of the world, the second the enmity between Saule ("Sun") and Mēness (Latvian; Lithuanian Mėnulis; "Moon").

But confusion yielded to certainty 12 seconds later, when the second bomb went off.

Mr Zapatero's exit at the next general election, due by April 2012, looks a racing certainty.A second intriguing outcome is to increase the chances of a deal between the CiU and the PP.

Now, there is less certainty concerning the first transaction, let alone the second.

If so he had a bad day all round on Saturday, A dramatic end-of-season collapse saw McClaren's side win only two of their last 13 games to move from play-off certainties to eighth on the last day of the season with a 3-0 home defeat by Reading.

A seventh had looked a certainty in the fourth round at Roland Garros, but Davenport turned around a 6-1, 3-1 deficit, a result that gave her added confidence coming into Wimbledon.

This bias is a near certainty in the first instant (∼1 s) of viewing and declines over the course of many seconds.

But this just turns out to mean that it is the first certainty that he decided to accept, not that anything else is based upon it.

In his view, however, arms control is inseparable from the certainty that the first use of nuclear weapons would mean one's own destruction.

The subsidies on offer already make Hinkley extremely expensive for consumers, and yet no one can say with any certainty when the first power will eventually be produced.