But the early stirrings against them, among followers similarly reluctant to surrender the familiar certainties, suggest that they, too, may ultimately find that old party loyalties and convictions may prove stronger than their project can bear.
Certainty, it suggests, begets madness – or maybe it's the other way round.
'Success in any walk of life lies in consistency,' he says at one point, with a certainty that suggests he has said it many times before.
Oborne shakes that latter certainty, however, suggesting it may have been a left arm spinner, Prince Aslam, who first bowled the doosra in the 1950s.
As the chorus unfolded, with a steady accretion of subdued contrapuntal voices, the plaintive anxiety of the music was balanced by a calming certainty that suggested that this plea to the Lord would surely be heard.
One prominent account of certainty is suggested by Descartes's presentation of his famous Archimedean point, the cogito (I am thinking, therefore I exist).
Although the fragmentary nature of the known fossils of Ferugliotherium makes it impossible to determine its dental formula with certainty, Gurovich suggested that it had one incisor (possibly two in the upper jaw), no canines, one or two premolars, and two molars on each side of the lower and upper jaws.
Unsurprisingly, the impression of clarity and certainty as suggested by a pathway is attractive to patients.
The strong fund-raising puts renewed pressure on Mr. Obama to bring in more cash and suggests certainty that Mr. Romney will remain financially competitive with an incumbent whose fund-raising prowess has long been a hallmark.
Although this possibility cannot be ruled out with certainty, previous work suggests that there are no easily-observable factors that predict program impact (Orr et al. 1996; Heckman et al. 2011), particularly when considering program impacts occurring years after participation.
