Sentence examples for compound the uncertainty from inspiring English sources

Such a move would also increase instability in the Middle East – a region from which Trump has promised to further extricate the United States – and only compound the uncertainty posed by Iran's own presidential elections in May 2017.

Otherwise, colorful as they are, lawsuits like the red sole case are likely to compound the uncertainty that results from the absence of statutory delineation of fashion design protection — and invite more lawsuits.

Just to compound the uncertainty hanging over them, it is unclear whether or not they would receive the enhanced redundancy terms they had been expecting, or merely the basic statutory payments.

To compound the uncertainty, Scotland were caught cold by a Gibraltar break upfield and the visitors scored their first goal in a qualifying match, to level the score at 1-1.

A meta-analysis of RCTs, all of which have a similar defined outcome, can be useful if the original studies are underpowered, but meta-analysis of poor quality data will not improve them and may simply compound the uncertainty.

Sinai's instability compounds the uncertainty.

That has compounded the uncertainty for the roughly 1,200 companies that adopted such plans from 1999 to 2005.

Compounding the uncertainty, May's Conservative government lost its parliamentary majority in an ill-conceived snap election in June.

For the EU as a whole, the prospect of "Brixit" compounds the uncertainty of the euro crisis.

Earlier doubts about whether the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and his finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, would agree on new austerity measures compounded the uncertainty.

The bloodshed in the Middle East and the tumult on Wall Street have only compounded the uncertainty, with strategists saying the contest has been buffeted by events that could enhance or harm the prospects of either candidate -- or have no impact at all.