Sentence examples for certainty only if from inspiring English sources

We can determine the IR behavior of a pigment with reasonable certainty only if it is applied on an IR reflective ground.

Anton C. Zijderveld and Peter L. Berger write in their book In Praise of Doubt: "The type of doubt we're discussing here doesn't intentionally destroy this institutional certainty, if only because doubt is averse to radical rebellion and revolution.

To him, operations provided the best possible refuge from the ocean of uncertainty always threatening to engulf science, and the relative certainty was only possible if he was learning from his own operations, not from second-hand reports from some other person.

The order mandates that the CIA can authorize strikes only if it knows with "near certainty that the terrorist target" is present.

Fairbanks said the only certainty if the proposition passes is that it "will be tied up in litigation for years".

If only, if only, if only.

Institutions require size and certainty; not only do they desire to build large positions, but they need to know they can exit them if needed.

The certainty means only one possibility.

I can now say with certainty: If you buy only one pair of $3,500 alligator loafers this year, these are the ones.

Solnit imagines a long-distance runner accumulating moments when neither foot is on the ground, "tiny fragments of levitation," and argues, by analogy, that in relinquishing certainty we approach, if only fleetingly, the divine.

There is no certainty of outcome, only questions, only hope.