At the least, tinkering of some kind is certain next year.
It is certain to overshadow this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
While long periods in Beijing's early history remain blank, it is certain that some 3,000 years ago Neolithic communities settled on or near the site where the city now stands.
With birth rates having plummeted since the baby-boom of the 1950s and life expectancy having lengthened every year, the trend is pretty much fixed for at least the next 15-20 years: the government thinks the total population may have begun to shrink in the first half of this year, and it is certain to do so from 2007 onwards.
The earliest date given by later authorities is 1020 and the latest 1026; it is certain that he lived to be more than 80.
While Iraq claims -- with little evidence -- that it destroyed all biological weapons unilaterally in 1991, it is certain that Unscom destroyed large biological weapons production facilities in 1996.
When the Budget Office updates its projections next month, it is certain to mark them down, not up -- and that will be just the beginning of a dismal trend.
He was booked at the time but the rulebook has moved along since then and today it is certain he would be charged under "exceptional circumstances".
Today, it is certain that tumour-specific T-cells can be found in high numbers among tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) (Romero et al, 1998), but this T-cell response usually does not translate into healing progress.
"It may not happen this year, if we have a correction [fall in stock markets] but it is certain to happen over the next five years," he said.
The Park51/Cordoba House imbroglio is perhaps our first encounter with this issue, but it is certain not to be our last.
