Characters struggle with competing desires for thrilling unpredictabilities and the certainties of order.
He wished he could study the stars, but as Hoover had sensibly said, "The world doesn't need an Afghan astrophysicist". He had been raised in a faith, buoyed at every turn by the certainty of a higher order, a purposeful universe, and now here in this shrine of critical thinking he was learning to doubt, not to believe.
Earlier this year it was facing the threat of closure, after developers submitted plans to build flats opposite, with the certainty of noise abatement orders to follow.
But now that income from the UN's oil-for-food programme has stopped, along with the customs revenues that have been the two governments' lifeline, an economic crisis looms.Even the task of catching wanted members of the toppled regime is handicapped by the lack of order and certainty.
Yet the actions of both distributors and vendors bring a degree of order and certainty to this market.
"Financial institutions, like the rest of us, desire certainty in order to plan for the future".
Further, we critically appraised each study's design and related methodological details in order to determine certainty of evidence.
But the French regulator made no such requests before approving the Flamanville plant — partly, Mr. Wack said, out of recognition that "the cost of detailed testing would be too high for the industry to finance without the certainty of having at least one launch order".
The picture at the end of Episode IX will be a final one, but one without the certainty of a new Resistance-controlled political order.
On the right, references of liberal bias are often tossed off with glib certainty, on the order of water is wet.
