Scholars have mapped roughly 22 different elements that distinguish identities, including their level of relative importance, certainty, salience, positivity, active involvement, emotional attachment, choice or imposition, and so on.
In a joint statement they called the decision a recognition of the "importance of certainty and continuity in the campaign finance system for the 2004 election cycle".
Both industry representatives and public policy makers acknowledged the importance of political certainty for short-, medium- and long-term investments.
He underscores the importance of conveying certainty with words, posture, eye contact and tone of voice.
The two strongest were attaching low importance to 'the certainty of finding work' and to 'the possibility of achieving high earnings' (p < .01).01
Many guidelines emphasize the importance of diagnostic certainty for the management of bacterial upper respiratory tract infections and promote β-lactam agents, such as amoxicillin or amoxicillin-clavulanate, as the preferred first-line therapy (4 – 6 ).
Under the Commission Notice on case referral in respect of concentrations(2), the Commission considers the appropriateness of an authority to handle the concentration, the benefits inherent in a one-stop-shop system across the EU and the importance of legal certainty.
And Romney's understanding failed him because his talking points way overdid the importance — and the current certainty — of whether the attack had arisen in part from protests or had been entirely premeditated.
This study investigates the effect of public commitment on resistance to persuasion and on the roles played by attitude certainty, issue importance, susceptibility to normative influence (SNI), preference for consistency (PFC), and the proximity of the source of counter-attitudinal information in influencing the relationship between public commitment and resistance to attitude change.
For all the talk of the importance of giving corporations "certainty" to make sure they can remain "competitive," we aren't hearing a whole lot about what's being asked of them.
The controls attributed more certainty and importance to the positive attributes, whereas the socially phobic individuals did not show any difference in certainty and importance ratings between positive and negative traits, suggesting the absence of a positive bias that, if present, could be beneficial in maintaining high levels of self-esteem and confidence in the self.
