Sentence examples for express some certainty from inspiring English sources

The back-and-forth was respectful and restrained, as the gathered journalists pressed Mr Bernanke to express some certainty about a decidedly uncertain economic outlook.

Beyond the intelligence officials, aides to President Bush have begun to express less certainty about the question, saying they do not know whether he is dead or alive.

Or, strangely, consoled at the fact that the composer of the first and the second are the same man – that someone who can express such certainty can also be riven with doubt, just like any imperfect human?

Meanwhile, the authors suggest, online reviews might be strengthened by allowing users to express their certainty about what they are writing (although unsure users would be less likely to post reviews).

To O'Donnell's credit, he didn't express absolute certainty, as Matthews did.

It is not as certain as physics, where scientists could this month express 99.999percentt certainty they had detected the Higgs boson elementary particle.

Not only should they use numerical scales to express diagnostic certainty, they must also learn to interpret an ever-growing array of quantitative imaging parameters [ 3].

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.

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.