Further, notwithstanding Thomas's enduring certainties, it is difficult to know what the framers would have thought of any given situation.
One minute he was a 12-year-old ragamuffin with nothing in his head more compelling than the desire to get through the day with the least possible interference from his elders, and the next he was in possession of one of life's most enduring certainties.
Poor Robin Williams, briefly enduring that lonely moment of morbid certainty where it didn't matter how funny he was or who loved him or how many lachrymose obituaries would be written.
For the long-run, however, let's try to establish some enduring foreign policy standards that combine certainty of principles with doubts about when to use force to achieve them.
She stressed the importance of collecting conflicting information before making up one's mind, of calibrating one's certainty level to the strength of the evidence, of enduring uncertainty for long stretches as an answer became clear, of correcting for one's biases.
This, I believe, is one of the greatest gifts of enduring the unendurable: Doubts about one's courage and strength become certainties.
Owen, although far shrewder than his parents, is far less happy; he envies the certainties and constraints that have allowed them to enjoy an enduring life together.
The reports come about a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the second part to its fifth assessment report, stating with certainty that humans are going to have to adapt to a world enduring climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from people burning fossil fuels.
Some are enduring – what he describes as the immutable law of the great death, the permanent, non-negotiable certainty that death is coming soon and cannot be diverted.
He thought about enduring.
