"The degrees of confidence here are varying.
Tyree, Ponder and Walker handle the looming cuts with varying degrees of confidence.
We do have varying degrees of confidence that chemical weapons were used in a limited way".
The answers range in degrees of confidence and alarm, though no one was ready to predict imminent doom.
Paxman says these government departments have "varying degrees of confidence" and often make these demands without the knowledge of ministers.
About 20 different types of adult stem cell have now been identified with varying degrees of confidence.
The United States has said it has "varying degrees of confidence" that sarin has been used by Syria's government on its people.
In an April letter to Congress, the White House said that intelligence agencies had "varying degrees of confidence" that Syrian government troops had used chemical weapons.
Last week, the American intelligence community assessed "with varying degrees of confidence" that the Syrians had used the chemical agent sarin in their attacks on the opposition.
And because Mr. Romney would have to win several such states with small Obama leads in order to prevail in the Electoral College, the analysts ended up with similarly high degrees of confidence in an overall Obama victory.
Sites like Farecast, Kayak and others use historical pricing information, among other things, to predict, with varying degrees of confidence, whether a rate currently on offer was likely to rise or fall.
