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The smaller category of O'Neillian indiscretion arises from his tendency to express certainty about inherently uncertain situations.
It has always seemed to me the most elegant description of agnosticism: gods simply aren't the kind of thing about which one can express certainty.
Experts express certainty that it is by Michelangelo (1475-1564) because of its strong resemblance to a similar Michelangelo statue from about the same time, in the Church of San Spirito in Florence.
As far as this example is concerned, Bandstra, Barry (2008): 145) analysis of the infinitive absolute as a modal Adjunct expressing certainty seems much more apt, since this structure does indeed express certainty, although since it is a verbal form, it would seem more appropriate to locate this word within the verbal group complex.
Doomsayers now predict a decade of lost growth in East Asia, like the one that Latin America went through after its debt crisis in the early 1980s.To express certainty about the future is always foolish, but such gloom looks premature.
Poles like Mr. Frankowski and his 78-year-old grandfather, Leon, express certainty that the economic juggernaut that is the European Union will overtake the small, slow rhythms of life that Poles have sustained through centuries of war and trauma, often on the most modest of holdings.
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Administration officials expressed certainty that the plane's crew was largely or entirely Russian.
Lawson questioned the integrity of climate science, implying scientists were expressing certainty about something they did not know.
Biden expressed certainty that despite the fracas, Sanders supporters would eventually come around to Clinton in a general election.
According to the same survey, 75percentt of Germans polled expressed certainty that prices have been rounded up.
It is a measure of this state's cynicism that many here expressed surprise at the convictions even as they expressed certainty about Mr. Edwards's guilt.
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