Sentence examples for dates certain from inspiring English sources

"Senate Republicans were able to hold together to prevent the Congress from either telling the generals how to conduct the war and providing dates certain for surrender," he said.

But unless they are issuing threats to foreign adversaries (as Mr. Obama did with Iran, and as former PresidentGeorge W. Bush did with the Iraqi dictator,Saddam Hussein), they try generally to avoid boxing themselves into corners with dates certain.

Now, with a date certain for the distribution, the gap may finally be erased.

Merely announcing "a date certain," he said, would "separate the mainstream Iraqis from the insurgents".

2. The U.S. Supreme Court, its ruling ignored, demands the Florida court's response by a date certain.

He can claim full credit for sticking to his own date certain regardless of circumstances — for not postponing the artificial event that just happened until some future date certain.

But an aide to Dr. Frist said the majority leader had not promised "a vote on a date certain".

"This bill should be named the Date Certain for Surrender Act," said Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican.